Gayathri Venugopalan
Indian Umpire
Gayathri Venugopalan (born 7 June 1979) is an Indian cricket umpire. She was one of the female umpires named by the ICC to stand in matches in the 2025 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup. She was one of the on-field umpire in 2025 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup to officiate in semi-final along with Nitin Bathi.
On 10 January 2023, she along with Vrinda Rathi and Narayanan Janani became the first woman umpires to stand as an on-field umpire in a men's domestic fixture in India, when she was one of the umpires in the match between Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh in the 2022–23 Ranji Trophy.
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