Date of birth: 16 November 2006 (Cardiff, Wales)
The Blaze List A debut: 2nd May 2026 (Metro Bank One Day Cup v Durham | Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street)
The Blaze T20 debut: 31st May 2026 (Vitality Blast v Durham | Trent Bridge, Nottingham)
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Right-arm off-spin
Welsh-born all-rounder Prisha Thanawala is a twin product of the Leicestershire pathway and of The Blaze’s regional Academy, the latter of which she graduated from in October 2024.
Having taken 35 wickets for the Academy in 2024 with her off-spin, as well as hitting 102 not out off just 67 balls against Northern Diamonds, she was named in the England squad for the 2025 Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup in Malaysia.
She took five wickets in the tournament, including a best return of 3/19 against New Zealand, as England reached the semi-finals.
Thanawala made her first unofficial appearances for The Blaze first XI, in a pair of mid-season behind-closed-doors T20 friendlies against Surrey, in 2025, before debuting fully away to Durham the following May.
She caught the eye almost immediately in that game with back-to-back ramp shots inside her first over, and subsequently debuted in T20 cricket - in the same month and against the same opposition - as she totalled almost 200 runs in her first season.