Amanjot Kaur Profile: Age, Height, Family, Stats, Career, WPL, Awards, Net Worth and More

Amanjot Kaur is an Indian seam-bowling all-rounder who plays for the Indian national team and Mumbai Indians in the Women’s Premier League (WPL). She took a match defining catch of the captain of South Africa in the 2025 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Laura Wolvaardt when she drove one ball through the covers that appeared to be the boundary, but rather the ball was ingested in one of the most dramatic moments ever in the history of Indian women in the sport of cricket. Amanjot Kaur with her composed, explosive, and perfectly positioned catch was the one who possessed that game-changing catch. Within a second, the Punjabi 24-year old had become the face of a new generation of Indian women in the game of cricket, the one that had just won its first ODI World Cup.

The moment which happened that one time, though, did not happen in a day. It was the end result of years of silent training, a father who never was sure of her dedication, a coach who was, and a cricketer who was not going to allow circumstances to determine the limit of her desire. The cricketer Amanjot Kaur biography is not merely a sporting tale, it is a portrait of a generation that is transforming the Indian women cricket into what it can be.

Amanjot Kaur Profile

Here’s a quick profile overview of Amanjot Kaur.

Details	Information
Full Name	Amanjot Bhupinder Kaur
Profession	Indian women cricketer
Date of Birth	25 August 2000
Place of Birth	Punjab, India
Age (as of 2026)	25 years
Nationality	Indian
State Team	Punjab (India domestic)
Batting Style	Right-handed
Bowling Style	Right-arm medium-pace
Role	All-rounder
T20I Debut	19 Jan 2023 vs South Africa
Coach (Academy)	Nagesh Gupta
Father’s Profession	Woodwork Contractor
Early Sports	Hockey, Football, Handball
Asian Games	Part of India’s 2023 Hangzhou squad

Amanjot Kaur Family

Amanjot Kaur was born on 25 August 2000 in Punjab, India, in a family that was miles away in terms of culture as far as cricket is concerned. Her father Bhupinder Singh, was a woodwork contractor, not an easy, challenging trade in which there was not much of romanticising the sporting aspirations of a daughter. Amanjot has a brother named Gurkirpal Singh and a sister named Kamaljot Kaur. Amanjot was brought up an athlete and a very energetic environment, who played hockey, football, and handball until the day when the sport she would master came to her life. Cricket is in a sense, not the first love in her life but a calling.

The turning point came when she was around 15 years of age and she was a student at the cricket academy of coach Nagesh Gupta. Gupta instantly realized that there was more than mere potential there, he was looking at the intellectual training and physical coordination needed to perform on a higher order. Her father was still sceptical as she was going through this stage which would soon go along the same way as her previous sporting hobbies. Gupta has been right in his belief: a bowling-based development had grown to other fronts when he realized during training sessions the level of fluency in Amanjot batting, which led to him grooming her as a real all-rounder.

Amanjot Kaur Career

Domestic Career: Foundation with Punjab and Chandigarh 

The 2017-18 season marked the start of Amanjot Kaur as a domestic cricketer, as Punjab introduced her to the organized play arena, which is a major milestone of a 16-year-old only just starting to develop an interest in taking part in serious sports. It was Punjab that gave her initial platform, but to get more regular match chances, she transferred to represent Chandigarh with the 2019-20 and 2020-21 season. The choice to change associations also shows some pragmatism that would define her career management: she has never placed any institution above competitive development.

During the 2022-23 season, she came back to Punjab and this time the timing of her coming back was very important. And it was that home campaign where her foreign spikes were shaved. She had impressed so much in her shows in the different forms in the season that she got the attention of the national selectors – something which would otherwise have not been possible a few years earlier when her father considered cricket as something far in between as just a hobby.

International Debut

Amanjot Kaur made her international debut on 19 January 2023, during a T20I tri-series match with South Africa. What now followed was such introduction as the coaches would fain repeat to junior cricketer; the 41 that came in the space of 30 deliveries, and in the composure of an experienced cricketer rather than the nerves of a first time player. 

The innings deserved to receive the Player of the Month which is a honour that is barely awarded to a cricketer in his or her first international match.

The play was not just great in its outcome, but also its setting. India needed a push in a pressure situation and Amanjot gave it the much needed push the team management had desired; she was performing in a clinical manner with the bat, and a sense of composure that would only suggest that she is where she belongs. 

It would be just a few months later in 16 July 2023 that she had an international career as she played against Bangladesh in the Mirpur ODI in her ODI chapter. The ODI debut confirmed that Amanjot Kaur was also deadly with the ball in case the T20I debut had validated her batting. 

She was a bowler with four wickets to her name one of them being 4/31 of that match one of the most memorable bowling debuts by an Indian woman during the ICC Women Championship Cricket. The medium-paced right-arm swing, her amanjot kaur bowling style was difficult to negotiate with the old Bangladesh batters, with its clever interchange.

Amanjot Kaur Career Stats

Batting and Fielding stats

Format	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct
WODIs	17	17	5	257	57	21.41	77.17	0	1	24	1	4
WT20Is	23	14	6	189	63*	23.62	127.7	0	1	25	1	9

Bowling Records

Format	Mat	Inns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
WODIs	17	17	683	19	4/31	4/31	35.94	6.16	35	1	0
WT20Is	23	19	318	8	2/25	2/25	39.75	7.57	31.5	0	0

Amanjot Kaur WPL Journey

The Women premier league has been the ultimate test bed of the upcoming generation of Indian women cricketing and Amanjot Kaur wpl story is one of the most captivating stories of its brief history. The Mumbai Indians won the bid on the first 2023 WPL auction with a price of INR 50 lakh, which, in retrospect, appears to be one of the deals of the whole auction cycle.

She became a dependable player over three seasons with MI and delivered the type of lower order batting acceleration and medium pace variation that coaches of franchises look up to in high stakes formats. Her performances helped Mumbai Indians to win the WPL title making her a 2 times WPL champion. 

The confidence that the franchise placed on her was literally measured in monetary terms before the 2026 season, when she was retained at INR 1 crore, which is twice her contract value before, as Mumbai Indians constructed their team with a core that contained proven performers boasting of world cup credentials.

She scored 209 runs in 29 WPL matches proving to be an active fielder and a competent change bowler. Her exposure in the franchise setting brought her into contact with world-class players and coaches and jump-started the type of professional growth that is so difficult to recreate in purely domestic cricket. It is not a coincidence that her best performances went international at the same time when she was maturing in WPL.

Amanjot Kaur WPL Stats

Batting Stats

Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct
37	25	10	348	42	23.2	129.85	0	0	42	6	11

Bowling Stats

Mat	Inns	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10w
37	20	9	3/22	3/22	41.55	8.69	28.6	0	0	0

Awards and Achievements

Amanjot Kaur already have various milestones that make her stand out of the wider list of emerging Indian women cricketers. 

The world cup of Women Cricket 2025 was the most joyful part of her career to date. She was picked in the team of India in the tournament in Sri Lanka and she played when the pressure was at its peak. A 50-year tenure as the tournament opener against Sri Lanka in India was a clear indication of what was to come as India would eventually emerge as champions. When her last match with South Africa was on, she was at the edge, the catch that eliminated Laura Wolvaardt, and what most cricket analysts have termed as the defining moment of the match, made her the face that marked the victory of the World Cup in India. Amanjot kaur won the 2025 WPL winner and ICC Women Cricket World Cup winner with India Women cricket team.

Award / Achievement	Year	Details
ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Winner	2025	Part of the Indian squad that won the World Cup
Women’s Premier League (WPL) Winner	2025	Won WPL title with Mumbai Indians
Player of the Match (T20I Debut)	2023	Awarded for outstanding debut performance
Asian Games Representation	2023	Represented India in Asian Games cricket team
Key Role in World Cup Matches	2025	Delivered impactful performances under pressure
Notable Fielding Moment	2025	Crucial catch (e.g., dismissing top-order batter) in a high-pressure match

Amanjot Kaur Net worth

As of 2026 Amanjot Kaur net worth is estimated between ₹1.5 to ₹2 crores. She earns most of her income through BCCI central contracts and WPL fees. The INR 50 lakh was her first WPL signing in 2023. Within the same period of time, when she was retained before the 2026 season, the valuation had grown to INR 1 crore, 100 percent, based on the performance exhibited and participation in World Cup, and franchise trust. Taking these figures along with the BCCI central contract grade income earned by the India Women players, sponsorship interest after the 2025 world cup campaign and prize money earned by India after winning her maiden world cup, indicate that her earnings profile is on a steep rising curve at the end of the decade.

Conclusion

The Amanjot Kaur biography of the year 2026 is a story that is exactly half-way. She entered the international scene of cricket as a calm 22-year-old having an unbeaten 41 and a Player of the Match award on her debut. She has since taken key wickets in ODIs, set the pace of all-round play at Mumbai Indians in the WPL and made the catch of the moment in a World Cup final. All of this before turning 26. She is the daughter of a woodwork contractor who sowed some doubt in her about her future sporting career and has assisted in rewriting the story of what is possible in the area of Indian women in cricket.

Since the ICC Women is and the World Cup is just deepening their cycle and India Women are on top of their future with the legacy of the 2025 World Cup, Amanjot Kaur is not just a part of it. One of its main authors is her.

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