Squadron Leader Shikha Pandey is an Indian cricketer and former officer in the Indian Air Force. She plays for the national cricket team as a right-arm medium pacer and middle-order batter, and was an IAF air traffic control officer.

Pandey made her international Twenty20 (T20I) debut on 9 March 2014 against Bangladesh at Cox’s Bazar cricket stadium in Bangladesh. In August of the same year, she made her One Day International (ODI) and Test debuts against England at Wormsley and Scarborough, respectively.

At the age of 15, Pandey was selected to play for Goa in 2004. Later at the age of 17 for the 2007–08 domestic season, she was selected to play for Goa’s Women Senior State Side. In the inter-state two-day tournament, Rani Jhansi Trophy, she picked up a four-wicket haul. This was also her Goa senior women’s debut. Thirushi Kamini, then already an Indian international, was her first wicket which was a caught-and-bowled. What fast-tracked her selection into the zonal squad the same season was her scoring three half-centuries for the Goa Under-19 side.

In her year off from her engineering course and Pandey played in Board President’s XI against the visiting England and West Indies teams in 2010 and January 2011 respectively and also took her first “international wicket, albeit unofficial,” Charlotte Edwards in the 2010 tour game. She continued to play for Goa and after 2013–14 season of Inter-State T20 tournament (Plate group) she was selected for India’s tour of Bangladesh consisting 3 friendly matches with Bangladesh and 2014 ICC Women’s World Twenty20.

After Dilip Sardesai, Pandey is the first player from Goa to play for any Indian national team. She is also the first Goa Cricket Association affiliated cricketer to play international level cricket for India. After the T20 World Cup, she played one-off Test match and 2 ODI matches against England. She was instrumental in India’s win against South Africa on 26 November 2014. She took 3 wickets and scored 59 runs.

Pandey was part of the Indian team to reach the final of the 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup where the team lost to England by nine runs. In January 2020, she was named in India’s squad for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia. In May 2021, she was named in India’s Test squad for their one-off match against the England women’s cricket team.