She made her debut for India in a One Day International against Sri Lanka on 19 January 2014.

She start playing for the Karnataka women's cricket team and made her international debut in 2014.

[2] Gayakwad lost her father to a cardiac arrest in 2014, right after her debut international series, against Sri Lanka[3] After the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, the water resources minister M. B. Patil gifted her a car worth Rs 5 lakh, which she refused and said that her priority was to get a house for her family.

[9] In January 2022, she was named in India's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.

[10] In July 2022, she was named in India's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.