India Women Most Catches: International Records

Harmanpreet Kaur has taken 145 catches for India: one in Tests, 67 in one-day internationals, 77 in Twenty20 internationals. She is the only India woman past a hundred, and she is 48 clear of second place.

That gap is partly longevity — she has fielded in 379 international innings since 2009 — but not only. Her rate of 0.41 catches per one-day innings is the best of any India woman with 40 or more in the format, and the 77 in Twenty20 internationals is the highest count in either white-ball format by any India fielder.

Behind her the order is close: Jhulan Goswami 97, Mithali Raj 95, Smriti Mandhana 95, Deepti Sharma 89. Two of those four were the side's frontline bowler and two batted at the top, which is worth noting because in most sides the busiest catchers are the specialist close fielders. India women have not really had one.

The all-format catch count

Catches taken in any position, including behind the stumps. Qualification: 65 or more.

Player	Span	Test	ODI	T20I	Total
Harmanpreet Kaur	2009-2026	1	67	77	145
Jhulan Goswami	2002-2022	5	69	23	97
Mithali Raj	1999-2022	12	64	19	95
Smriti Mandhana	2013-2026	3	43	49	95
Deepti Sharma	2014-2026	3	42	44	89
Richa Ghosh	2020-2026	0	36	41	77
Jemimah Rodrigues	2018-2026	6	22	40	68

Richa Ghosh is the only wicketkeeper in that group and her 77 come almost entirely from behind the stumps, which is a different job from the other six. Her keeping record sits on the India women most wicketkeeper dismissals page.

Mithali Raj's twelve Test catches put her sixth on the Test list, behind Sudha Shah, Anju Jain, Shubhangi Kulkarni, Karuna Jain and Anjum Chopra. She fielded in 21 Test innings across nineteen years and caught more often per innings there than in either white-ball format.

Anjum Chopra and Anju Jain both sit just below the qualification line, on figures in the high forties, and Shafali Verma and Veda Krishnamurthy are in the same band. Their exact totals depend on one-day catch figures that sit below the display cut-off of the ranked list, so they are left out rather than estimated.

Twenty20 internationals: the busiest format

Player	Span	Inns	Catches	Stumpings	Max in an innings
Harmanpreet Kaur	2009-2026	200	77	0	4
Smriti Mandhana	2013-2026	169	49	0	2
Deepti Sharma	2016-2026	147	44	0	2
Richa Ghosh	2020-2026	87	41	37	4
Jemimah Rodrigues	2018-2026	129	40	0	3
Veda Krishnamurthy	2011-2020	76	38	0	4
Shafali Verma	2019-2026	110	34	0	3
Radha Yadav	2018-2026	90	34	0	2
Tania Bhatia	2018-2022	53	23	45	4
Jhulan Goswami	2006-2018	68	23	0	2
Mithali Raj	2006-2019	89	19	0	1
Shikha Pandey	2014-2023	60	18	0	2
Anuja Patil	2012-2019	50	17	0	2
Arundhati Reddy	2018-2026	54	16	0	3
Poonam Yadav	2013-2022	72	15	0	1

Veda Krishnamurthy's 38 from 76 innings is the highest rate of any India outfielder in the format — one every two innings, against Harmanpreet's one every 2.6. She played 76 Twenty20 internationals in nine years, never held a settled batting place, and was picked partly for what she did in the ring.

Radha Yadav's 34 in 90 innings is the second-best rate among the non-keepers. Between them, Krishnamurthy and Radha Yadav make the case that India's best catchers in the shortest format have not been its best batters.

Mithali Raj's nineteen from 89 innings, with a maximum of one in an innings, is the outlier in the other direction. She fielded in the deep for much of her Twenty20 career.

One-day internationals

Player	Span	Inns	Catches	Stumpings	Max in an innings
Jhulan Goswami	2002-2022	203	69	0	3
Harmanpreet Kaur	2009-2026	164	67	0	3
Mithali Raj	1999-2022	231	64	0	2
Smriti Mandhana	2013-2026	120	43	0	3
Deepti Sharma	2014-2026	124	42	0	3
Rumeli Dhar	2003-2012	78	37	0	2
Richa Ghosh	2021-2026	54	36	9	5
Amita Sharma	2002-2014	115	35	0	2
Anjum Chopra	1995-2012	127	33	0	2
Karuna Jain	2004-2014	44	32	26	5
Anju Jain	1993-2005	65	30	51	5
Sulakshana Naik	2002-2013	45	28	32	5
Sushma Verma	2014-2021	43	28	21	4
Jemimah Rodrigues	2018-2026	22	22	0	3
Neetu David	1995-2008	97	21	0	2

Rumeli Dhar's 37 in 78 innings is the best rate among the outfielders here, one every 2.1 innings, and she was a seam-bowling all-rounder rather than a specialist. Harmanpreet Kaur's 0.41 per innings is next.

Goswami's 69 is the highest count and the least surprising: she fielded in 203 one-day innings, more than any India woman other than Mithali Raj, and took a catch every third time.

Five of the fifteen rows belong to wicketkeepers — Ghosh, Karuna Jain, Anju Jain, Sulakshana Naik and Sushma Verma — and every one of them has a maximum of four or five dismissals in an innings, which no outfielder has come close to. That is the structural difference between catching in the ring and catching everything that misses the bat.

Tests: 43 matches, and Sudha Shah on top

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	Catches	Stumpings
Sudha Shah	1976-1991	21	38	21	0
Anju Jain	1995-2003	8	14	15	8
Shubhangi Kulkarni	1976-1991	19	34	14	0
Karuna Jain	2005-2014	5	9	14	3
Anjum Chopra	1995-2006	12	22	13	0
Mithali Raj	2002-2021	12	21	12	0
Shantha Rangaswamy	1976-1991	16	28	10	0
Diana Edulji	1976-1991	20	36	8	0
Yastika Bhatia	2021-2026	4	8	7	0
Jemimah Rodrigues	2023-2026	5	10	6	0
Jhulan Goswami	2002-2021	12	21	5	0
Shafali Verma	2021-2026	7	13	5	0
Fowzieh Khalili	1976-1977	8	13	5	10

Sudha Shah played 21 Tests, more than any other India woman, and her 21 catches are the most by an India woman in the format. She took 601 Test runs and five wickets across those matches; the catching is the part of her record that leads a leaderboard.

The top seven are all from careers that began before 2006, because the great majority of India's 43 Tests were played before that year. Anju Jain's fifteen catches from fourteen innings is the best rate on the list, and she was keeping.

Harmanpreet Kaur has one Test catch in fifteen innings, which is the strangest number on this page. The same fielder has 144 white-ball catches.

Catches per innings, which reorders everything

Player	Format	Inns	Catches	Per innings
Veda Krishnamurthy	T20I	76	38	0.50
Rumeli Dhar	ODI	78	37	0.47
Harmanpreet Kaur	ODI	164	67	0.41
Harmanpreet Kaur	T20I	200	77	0.39
Radha Yadav	T20I	90	34	0.38
Smriti Mandhana	ODI	120	43	0.36
Jhulan Goswami	ODI	203	69	0.34
Deepti Sharma	ODI	124	42	0.34
Jemimah Rodrigues	T20I	129	40	0.31
Shafali Verma	T20I	110	34	0.31
Deepti Sharma	T20I	147	44	0.30
Smriti Mandhana	T20I	169	49	0.29
Mithali Raj	ODI	231	64	0.28

Qualification: 30 or more catches in the format. Wicketkeepers are excluded from this table because a keeper's rate is not comparable — Richa Ghosh's one-day rate of 0.67 would top it without telling anyone anything.

Two things fall out. Harmanpreet Kaur is the only fielder in the top four twice, which is the case for calling her India's best catcher rather than merely its most durable. And Mithali Raj is bottom of the qualified list, with a Twenty20 count that did not reach the threshold at all — a fair reflection of where she fielded rather than of how well.

Four in an innings, and five

Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy and Tania Bhatia have each taken four dismissals in a Twenty20 international innings, Bhatia as a keeper. Richa Ghosh has managed four in the format too.

In one-day internationals five is the maximum, and every player who has reached it kept wicket: Anju Jain, Karuna Jain, Sulakshana Naik and Richa Ghosh. No India outfielder has taken more than three catches in a one-day international innings, and the five who have done it — Goswami, Harmanpreet, Mandhana, Deepti Sharma and Rodrigues — are the same names that lead the aggregate table.

The bowling that produced the edges is on the India women most wickets page and the India women best bowling figures page.

What the catching record actually measures

It measures innings fielded first and skill second, and there is no way round that: Mithali Raj fielded in 341 international innings and Veda Krishnamurthy in fewer than 130. Any list ordered by total will put the long careers on top.

It also measures position. India women's sides have generally used their batters at cover and midwicket and their spinners in the ring, with no settled slip cordon in the white-ball formats, so a Test-style close catcher barely exists in the record. That is why Sudha Shah's 21 Test catches from 38 innings has no white-ball equivalent.

And it does not measure catches dropped, which is the number every captain actually cares about and which nobody records. The rest of India's women's records — batting, bowling, keeping — are linked from the India women's national team history page, the domestic structure that develops fielders from the women's domestic cricket page and the Women's Premier League guide, with the whole of the Indian game reachable from the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Catch and stumping counts, innings fielded, career spans and maximum dismissals in an innings come from ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru career fielding records for India Women in women's Tests, women's one-day internationals and women's Twenty20 internationals, read on 27 August 2026.

The "catches" column in those records counts every catch a player took, whether standing up to the stumps or in the field. Where a player kept wicket, her stumping count is printed beside the catches so the reader can see which is which; the keeping-specific leaderboard is a separate page.

All-format totals are computed by me by addition across the three format records, because Statsguru publishes no combined women's international class. The qualification of 65 or more was chosen so that every player in the table has all three of her format figures visible in the ranked lists — Anjum Chopra, Anju Jain, Shafali Verma and Veda Krishnamurthy are excluded not because their totals are lower but because one of their three figures sits below a display cut-off.

Catches per innings is my arithmetic on the published innings and catch columns. It is not a Statsguru field and it is a blunt instrument: it takes no account of fielding position, of how many chances came, or of the balance of pace and spin in the attack.

Player names are given in full where the full name could be confirmed and as the records print them where it could not. Fielding records move with every match, and nothing on this page has been estimated.