For 30-year-old all-rounder Nazma Khan, her maiden Girls’s Premier League opportunity with the Delhi Capitals is greater than a contract; it is the realisation of a message she despatched to Jemimah Rodrigues a year in the past. Picked for ₹10 lakh in the accelerated round of the WPL 2027 mini-auction in Kochi on October 28, Nazma now has the chance to share a dressing room with a number of the biggest names in girls’s cricket and to be taught from them on the game’s grandest domestic franchise stage.
A Dream Message That Became Actuality
The Delhi Capitals went into the public sale having spent ₹13.90 crore on retentions, leaving them ₹1.10 crore to spend with 5 squad slots accessible, including one for an overseas participant. They signed 4 players for a mixed ₹1.05 crore: Kiran Navgire for ₹75 lakh, Kashvi Kandikuppa and Kirstie Gordon for ₹10 lakh each, and Nazma Khan for ₹10 lakh, taking their squad from 13 to 17 and leaving just ₹5 lakh unused.
Nazma’s selection carried a particularly particular story. A year earlier, she had messaged Jemimah about her dream of enjoying alongside her and being a part of a winning team, hoping the India batter would finally see it. When Jemimah opened Instagram to text Nazma after the public sale, she found that old message and shared the screenshot on her story: “Opened Instagram just now to text Nazma and stumbled upon a message from her a year in the past. One year later, the manifestation is actual. Welcome to the household.”
For Nazma, the second was nothing in need of a dream come true. “I feel there are such a lot of huge players in our team. There’s Jemimah [Rodrigues], Shafali Verma, Laura Wolvaardt, Marizanne Kapp, and Shree Charani. Playing with such huge players is a giant achievement in itself,” she stated. “Being in the midst of those players on that stage, as a result of every participant has an awesome quality, I feel like observing the opposition and pondering, ‘What can I be taught from this?”
The 30-year-old has recognized exactly what she hopes to absorb from her new teammates. “Jemimah is a really busy participant. She always calculates; she reads the ball well. Her game consciousness is superb. She handles situations very well. And Laura Wolvaardt, her skill, and how calm and composed she is,” Nazma explained. “I feel that is just the beginning for me in life. From every participant, I’ll get to be taught loads. And clearly, it’s fun to do my best in the midst of all that.”
Home Success Earns Nazma Her WPL Breakthrough
Nazma arrives at the Capitals after a powerful domestic run. She took 24 wickets throughout Delhi’s triumphant Senior Girls’s One Day Trophy campaign and later helped the North Delhi Strikers win the Girls’s Delhi Premier League, where she claimed the Purple Cap. Her path, nonetheless, was removed from simple: after six years on Delhi’s bench, temporary stints with Nagaland and Uttarakhand adopted earlier than the televised Girls’s DPL in 2024 introduced her performances to the eye of scouts.
At the moment representing Delhi in the ongoing Senior Girls’s T20 Trophy Elite, Nazma will now look to transform domestic consistency into WPL impact. The fifth version of the tournament runs from January 14 to February 7, 2027, with Jemimah Rodrigues leading a Delhi Capitals squad that additionally consists of Shafali Verma, Annabel Sutherland, Marizanne Kapp, Laura Wolvaardt, Chinelle Henry, Lucy Hamilton, Minnu Mani, Niki Prasad, Sree Charani, Mamatha Madiwala, Nandni Sharma and Deeya Yadav.
The Capitals can be desperate to lastly go one higher. They have completed as runners-up in all 4 earlier WPL editions: Mumbai Indians won the inaugural title in 2023, Royal Challengers Bengaluru triumphed in 2024, Mumbai reclaimed the crown in 2025, and RCB lifted their second title in 2026.
For Nazma, though, the quick ambition is easier: make every coaching session, every conversation and every opportunity rely, while holding sight of the larger prize: an India call-up.
I’m Yash Tailor, and I consider work needs to be driven by passion. Therefore, after finishing my Engineering, I selected to work in the Cricket trade, my passion. My goal is to reach a stage where I truly get pleasure from what I do and provides my best to each process with power and function.
Supply: femalecricket.com
