Mithali Raj

Mithali Raj

Mithali Dorai Raj is an Indian International cricketer and Test, ODI Captain of women’s national cricket team. She is a right-handed opening Batwoman and occasional right-arm leg break bowler. She has played all three cricket formats for India, Test One Day and T20. She led the Indian team to the finals in the 2005 Women’s Cricket World Cup.

About Mithali Raj in brief

Summary Mithali RajMithali Dorai Raj is an Indian International cricketer and Test, ODI Captain of women’s national cricket team. She is a right-handed opening Batwoman and occasional right-arm leg break bowler. She has played all three cricket formats for India, Test One Day and T20. She led the Indian team to the finals in the 2005 Women’s Cricket World Cup where the team lost to Australia. Raj is the only player to have captained India in more than one ICC ODI World Cup final, doing so twice in 2005 and 2017. On 1 February 2019, during India’s series against New Zealand Women, Raj became the first woman to play in 200 ODI matches. In September 2019, she announced her retirement from T20Is to focus on ODI cricket.

In July 2017, she became first player to score 6,000 runs in WODIs. At the 2013 Women’s World Cup, Raj was the No. 1 Cricketer Cricketers chart among women. She currently tops the batting table with 703 ratings. She scored 100s: 4 in Test cricket, 100s and 50s: 5 and 10 in T20 cricket. She also has 34 bowling 50s with best bowling of 34 in ODIs and 10 bowling of 10 in 20s. She was named among the probables in the 1997 Women’s cricket World Cup when she was just 14. She made her Test debut in the 2001–02 season against South Africa at Lucknow. She broke Karen Rolton’s record of world’s highest individual Test score of 209*.