Shikha Subas Pandey  born 12 May 1989 is an Indian cricketer and former officer in the Indian Air Force (IAF) 

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She plays for the national cricket team as a right-arm medium pacer and middle-order batter, and was an IAF air traffic control officer. 

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Pandey made her international Twenty20 (T20) debut on 9 March 2014 against Bangladesh at Cox's Bazar cricket stadium in Bangladesh. 

In August of the same year, she made her One Day International cricket (ODI) and Test cricket debuts against England at Wormsley  

Pandey did her schooling under the Central Board of Secondary Education, India.  

At the age of 15, she became the first player affiliated with state board to represent India. 

Within months of this affiliation and getting introduced into the formal set-up, Surekha Bhandare, former Mumbai player 

In the class-ten board (secondary school) exams, she won the state-wide third rank. 

It was then that she decided to focus more on studies and cricket took a back seat for the next three years. 

It was not before her second year as an undergraduate in Electronics and Electrical Engineering that she begun pursuing the sport with serious intent.