Jasmin Akter

Jasmin Akter
Born2001
Nyapara Bangladesh refugee camp
NationalityRohingya
EducationBradford College
Occupationcricketer captain England's Street Child World Cup team
OrganizationYorkshire County Cricket Club
Known forstarting Asian girl's street cricket
AwardsBBC 100 Women 2019

Jasmin Akter (born 2001),[1] is a cricketer, who was born in a Nayapara refugee camp in Bangladesh, and is Rohingya, an ethnic group savagely persecuted from Myanmar.[2] She came to live in the Bradford, UK as a refugee, was a child carer for her mother, and started an all-Asian girls cricket team. She represented England in the first Street Child Cricket World Cup Charity match, and almost won.[1] She was named one of the BBC's 100 most inspiring and influential women in 2019.[3]

  1. ^ a b Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Rohingya Star Lights up Lords in Junior Cricket Final". UNHCR. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
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  3. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2021.