Natthakan Chantham

Natthakan Chantham (Thai: ณัฏฐกานต์ จันทร์ธรรม Thai pronunciation: [nát.tʰa.kāːn tɕān.tʰām]; na-ta-KAHN chan-TAHM,^[3][4] born 1 January 1996) is a Thai cricketer, who plays for the women's national cricket team as a right-handed opening batter.^[5]

Natthakan Chantham

Chantham batting for Thailand during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
Personal information
Born	(1996-01-01) 1 January 1996 (age 29) Chiang Mai,[1] Thailand
Nickname	Jeans[2]
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium-fast
Role	Batter
International information
National side	Thailand
ODI debut (cap 3)	20 November 2022 v Netherlands
Last ODI	7 July 2023 v Netherlands
T20I debut (cap 3)	3 June 2018 v Pakistan
Last T20I	1 May 2022 v USA
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2020	Trailblazers
2022	Velocity
Career statistics
Competition WODI WT20I Matches 9 82 Runs scored 473 1,690 Batting average 52.55 27.25 100s/50s 1/5 0/9 Top score 102 88* Catches/stumpings 5/– 23/–
Medal record Representing  Thailand Women's Cricket Southeast Asian Games 2017 Kuala Lumpur Twenty20 2023 Cambodia Twenty10 2023 Cambodia Twenty20 2023 Cambodia 50 overs
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 8 October 2024

International career

She played for the Thailand women's national cricket team in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in February 2017.^[6]

In June 2018, she was named in Thailand's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament.^[7] She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Thailand on 3 June 2018, in the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup.^[8] In November 2018, she was named in the Women's Global Development Squad, to play fixtures against Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) clubs.^[9]

In August 2019, she was named in Thailand's squad for the 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in Scotland.^[10] In January 2020, she was named in Thailand's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.^[11] She was the leading run-scorer for Thailand in the tournament, with 103 runs in four matches.^[12] In Thailand's last match of the tournament, against Pakistan, she scored 56 to register her country’s first Women’s T20 World Cup half-century, and shared in an opening partnership of 93 with Nattaya Boochatham.^[13][14]

In November 2020, Chantham was nominated for the ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Decade award.^[15]

Chantham scored consecutive centuries (113 and 120) against the South Africa Emerging side in September 2021, during her team's tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa.^[16] In November 2021, she was named in Thailand's team for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Zimbabwe.^[17] She played in Thailand's first match of the tournament, on 21 November 2021 against Zimbabwe.^[18]

In October 2022, she played for Thailand in Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup.^{[citation needed]}

On 20 November 2022, she scored her maiden Women's One Day International century, making 102 against the Netherlands.^[19][20][21]

Chantham was part of the Thailand squad for the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Pakistan in April 2025.^[22]

Franchise career

In October 2020, she was selected to play for the IPL Trailblazers in the 2020 Women's T20 Challenge league,^[23] becoming the first Thai cricketer to play in a professional Twenty20 franchise league.^[24] In the tournament final, she played a prominent role in the Trailblazers' victory, by diving spectacularly to save a boundary by Jemimah Rodrigues, and then by taking a breakthrough catch in the covers to dismiss Rodrigues off the bowling of Deepti Sharma.^[25]