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| name = Gayathri Venugopalan<br />
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| country = India<br />
| fullname = Gayathri Venugopalan<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|06|07|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India<br />
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| role = [[Umpire (cricket)|Umpire]]<br />
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| wtestsumpired = 1<br />
| umpwtestdebutyr = 2024<br />
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| wodisumpired = 8<br />
| umpwodidebutyr = 2022<br />
| umpwodilastyr = 2025<br />
| wt20isumpired = 26<br />
| umpwt20idebutyr = 2022<br />
| umpwt20ilastyr = 2026<br />
| fcumpired = 3<br />
| umpfcdebutyr = 2023<br />
| umpfclastyr = 2024<br />
| date = 16 December 2024<br />
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/gayathri-venugopalan-1316306 ESPNcricinfo<br />
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'''Gayathri Venugopalan''' (born 7 June 1979) is an Indian [[cricket umpire]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/gayathri-venugopalan-1316306|title=Gayathri Venugopalan |access-date=16 December 2024 |work=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Match officials announced for ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2025 |url=https://www.crictracker.com/cricket-news/match-officials-announced-for-icc-u19-womens-t20-world-cup-2025-9706/ |access-date=2025-01-13 |work=CricTracker}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://femalecricket.com/u19-womens-world-cup-2025/59738-match-officials-for-icc-u19-womens-t20-world-cup-2025-announced.html |title=Match Officials for ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2025 Announced |work=Female Cricket |access-date=16 January 2025}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/media-releases/match-officials-announced-for-semi-finals-of-icc-women-s-u19-t20-world-cup |title=Match officials announced for semi-finals of ICC Women’s U19 T20 World Cup |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=4 February 2025}}</ref><br />
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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 [[Ranji Trophy|men's domestic fixture in India]], when she was one of the umpires in the match between [[Jharkhand cricket team|Jharkhand]] and [[Chhattisgarh cricket team|Chhattisgarh]] in the [[2022–23 Ranji Trophy]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Women umpires Rathi, Janani and Gayathri make history in Ranji Trophy |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/women-umpires-vrinda-rathi-janani-narayanan-and-gayathri-venugopalan-make-history-at-ranji-trophy-1353118 |access-date=10 January 2023 |work=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Women cricket umpires]]<br />
[[Category:Indian cricket umpires]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Twenty20 International cricket umpires]]<br />
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