[2][3][4] 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.

[5][6] In August of the same year, she made her One Day International (ODI) and Test debuts against England at Wormsley and Scarborough, respectively.

[7] Academics has always been important to Pandey and had to juggle cricket and college, where she would spend her morning doing gym sessions and academic work, and her afternoons would include a 12 km journey to Mapusa so she could train under Nitin Vernekar, former Goa cricketer and Sports Authority of Goa coach.

She particularly credits Ujwala Phadte, her lecturer in Applied Mathematics for helping her throughout this phase and making sure her grades were not inversely proportional to her on-field performance.

Later at the age of 17 for the 2007–08 domestic season, she was selected to play for Goa's Women Senior State Side.

[7] 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.

[19] In May 2021, she was named in India's Test squad for their one-off match against the England women's cricket team.