Laura Cardoso

Laura Cardoso (born 28 March 2005) is a Brazilian cricketer who plays for the women's national cricket team as a right-arm medium fast bowler and right handed batter. In 2021, aged 16, she became the first cricketer, male or female, to take a hat-trick for Brazil in a Twenty20 International (T20I). Early life Cardoso has been involved in sport since she was very young. Initially, she played volleyball. At about the age of 11, she switched to cricket, and joined a community cricket project called. By the time she was 12, she was displaying exceptional talent for the game. International career In January 2020, Cardoso was one of the first 14 cricketers, all of them female, to be centrally contracted by Cricket Brasil. Determined not to let the opportunity slip, she became even more disciplined in her approach to the balancing of cricket's demanding schedule with her school commitments. Even before making her international debut, she was being described as the national team's "premier allrounder", like her idol Ellyse Perry.