Who is Nuzhat Parween? Know About Her Boyfriend, Family, Career, Stats and More

Imagine this, you are captaining your state U-16 football team with a dream to represent your country at the highest level in football, and then cut to 6 years later you are being crowned as the runners-up of the 50-over Women’s World Cup at Lord’s in England along with the rest of your teammates of the Indian National Women’s Cricket Team.

Someone who has lived that journey is Nuzhat Parween who is a wicketkeeper-batter hailing from the state of Madhya Pradesh and currently playing for the Railways Women’s team. She first played for the Indian Women’s cricket team making her debut in November 2016 in a T20I against West Indies Women while she debuted in the ODI format in May 2017. She now finds herself a part of the RCB Women for the WPL 2025 where she has been named as a replacement for the injured Asha Sobhana.

Nuzhat Parween Early Life, Family, Religion, and Caste:

Nuzhat Masih Parween was born on September 5, 1996, in Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh in a Muslim family. Nuzhat Parween’s father Masih Alam works in Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) while her mother Nasima Begum is a housewife. Nuzhat is the third of five children in her house, before her are her elder brother Aamir Sohail, and elder sister Nemat Parween while she has two younger siblings Aasiyah Parween and Ayan Ashraf Sohail.

Nuzhat was an athlete since her childhood days. She was a gold medallist in 100m in State Athletics while she also was keenly involved in football leading her state’s U16 football team in a national tournament. She first joined a professional cricket team in 2011 when she was selected to be a part of Singrauli’s district team where she played as a keeper-batter.

Little did she know that within a year, in 2012, she would meet her idol and the captain of the Indian Women’s Cricket team, Mithali Raj and after meeting her she decided to completely focus herself on cricket. It paid rich dividends for her as she broke the door of the Indian National team very soon, in 2016.

Nuzhat Parween Education:

Knowing that Nuzhat would need exposure in order to grow in her cricketing career, her family decided to admit her to a well-known private school. Despite missing numerous classes due to her practices but Nuzhat still scored 91.8% marks in class 12 for which she believes her school and the various coaching classes she joined before her board exams should be thanked a lot.

Nuzhat Parween Jersey Number:

Nuzhat sported the number 7 on her back since she started playing cricket. While the exact reason for that is unknown, it might be due to her inspiration MS Dhoni who wears the same number.

Nuzhat Parween Boyfriend:

Nuzhat has never publicly opened up about any relationships of hers. Like many young players, she has kept her personal life to herself and any information about her dating life and relationships is unknown.

Nuzhat Parween Net Worth and Salary:

The net worth of Nuzhat Parween is not known. However, RCB Women have acquired her services for WPL 2025 at a base price of INR 30 Lakh. While she has not been a part of the BCCI Central Contract System, a major share of her income would be derived from playing for the senior team of Railways Women where she is an integral part.

Nuzhat Parween Instagram:

Nuzhat Parween has an active presence on social media. She has 117k followers on Instagram and her username is @nuzhatparween786 and this is her profile link – https://www.instagram.com/nuzhatparween786/?hl=en

Nuzhat Parween Twitter

On X (formerly known as Twitter), Nuzhat is followed by over 3kusers. Her handle is @nuzparween786 and you can visit her profile here – https://x.com/nuzparween786?lang=en

Nuzhat Parween Career:

Nuzhat Parween started off her cricketing career in 2011 playing for the Singrauli district team where she was invited to be a part of the team as the team did not have enough players to make an 11. Nuzhat was a national football player at the time and she impressed the officials with her wicket-keeping abilities and was soon made a part of the Madhya Pradesh U-19 Women’s Cricket Team.

A year later, her impressive performances saw her earn the vice-captain’s tag in the Central Zone U-19 Women’s Cricket Team. Also, she was elevated to the senior side of the Madhya Pradesh Women’s Cricket Team and was also made the captain.

After captaining Madhya Pradesh for four years from behind the wickets, Nuzhat broke into the national team in 2016 when she was called up to play in the T20 series against West Indies Women. A few months later, in May 2017, Nuzhat got a place in the ODI team as well and got to play an ODI against Ireland Women which is till date the only 50-over game she has played for India. Subsequently, she was also picked for the Women’s ODI World Cup in 2017 which was held in England. She could not make the playing-11 through the tournament and was a substitute to the regular keeper Sushma Verma but the team’s victory against Australia Women powered by the famous Harmanpreet Kaur knock of 171 remains her favorite memory.

She has been a prolific performer at the domestic level, her most recent performance in the Women’s Senior One Day Trophy 2024 Semi-finals for Railway was a hundred against Bengal Women where Nuzhat played at the number 3 spot. In the past as well, Nuzhat scored a 74-run knock against Bengal Women in the semi-finals of the same tournament in 2018. Her most memorable tournament is the 2019 edition of the Women’s Senior T20 where she emerged as the third-highest scorer of the tournament with 282 runs in 6 innings including 4 not-outs and was pivotal to Railways winning the title.

She did receive a call-up back to the national side once more and her last appearance for the Indian Women’s Team was in March 2021 against South Africa Women in a T20I.

Nuzhat Parween Achievements & Awards:

• Women’s 50-over World Cup runner-up with Indian Women’s Cricket Team in 2017
• Youngest player to make it to the World Cup squad after Deepti Sharma
• First Indian player to make it to the national team within just five years of starting to play cricket