Announcing her departure from international cricket, Mithali Raj. She led the Indian women’s cricket team in both Test and One-Day matches. The captain of the Indian Women’s Cricket team, Mithali Raj, announced her retirement from the sport today. She expressed her gratitude for all of her supporters’ devotion in her most recent announcement. She has scored the most runs for India’s women’s cricket squad.
She has now declared her retirement from all international cricket. To share this news, she used her social media accounts.
Mitali Raj Early Life
She was born into a Tamil family on December 3, 1982, in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Her mother is named Leela Raj, and her father is Dorai Raj. Her father served in the Indian Air Force as an airman (warrant officer). She first began playing the game at the age of ten.
She enrolled at Hyderabad’s Keyes High School for Girls. She attended Secunderabad’s Kasturba Gandhi Junior College for Women for her intermediate education. She began coaching cricket with her older brother while still enrolled in school. She’s not yet settled down. She dances Bharatanatyam.
Mitali Raj Career
She played against Ireland in her first One-Day International in 1999 and scored an undefeated 114 runs. She played her first Test in Lucknow in 2001–2002 against South Africa.
On August 17, 2002, on her third test, she surpassed Karen Rolton’s record for the highest individual test score in the world (209) at the age of 19. In the second and last Test at the County Ground in Taunton, she scored 214 runs against England.
In March 2004, the record was surpassed by Kiran Baluch of Pakistan by scoring 242 against the West Indies.
She became more resilient and tenacious after the World Cup. She served as the captain of the Indian cricket team in the 2005 World Cup Final, which was played in South Africa and included Australia. The squad reached the World Cup final when she served as captain. She guided the side to its first-ever Test and Series triumph in England in 2006, and the year was capped by winning the Asia Cup, which was the second time in 12 months, that too without losing a single game.
The Indian side, led by her, advanced to the 2005 Women’s Cricket World Cup finals before falling to Australia. She also earned the 2003 Arjuna Award. With 703 ratings, she also had the highest batting average.
In the women’s ODI rankings at the 2013 Women’s World Cup, she was the top female cricketer. She eclipsed former England captain Charlotte Edwards to become the most prolific run-scorer in ODIs and the first female to reach 6000 runs in the format at the 2017 ODI World Cup.
Her 409 runs scored in the competition were second only to England’s opener Tammy Beaumont’s total. Her three fifties and a century were important to India’s runner-up result.
In October 2019, at the age of 36, she became the first woman to play two decades of ODI cricket. She declared her retirement from T20 international cricket in September 2019. For their one-off encounter against the England women’s cricket team in May 2021, she was selected as the captain of India’s Test team.
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In addition, she was chosen to lead India at the 2022 Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand in January 2022. On March 12, 2022, she eclipsed the previous record for the most ICC Women’s World Cup matches she had led. She has surpassed Belinda Clark, a previous Australian skipper who led her team in 23 games.
