Mithali Raj, recognized as the pioneer of women’s cricket in India will turn 38 on December 3, 2020. After retiring from T20s final year, Mithali had stated she desires the 50-more than World Cup in 2021 to be her swansong.
But, the World Cup has been postponed till 2022 due to ongoing coronavirus pandemic. That signifies, this could be the final year for the fans to witness the Indian Test and ODI skipper in action.
In the shortest format of the game, Mithali Raj went on to represent India in 89 T20Is, managing to score 2,364 runs, whereas in ODIs, Mithali has 6,888 runs in 209 matches.
In the longest format of the game, Mithali has scored 663 runs in 10 matches.
On the occasion of her birthday, let us revisit the time when Mithali revealed what defined the turning point for women’s cricket in India.
“The turning point, in my opinion, has to be 2006 as in that year we came under BCCI. With that a lot of facilities were provided to us, a lot of things changed for good and better. Since then, there has been a gradual improvement in respect to the access in facilities like NCA and an increase in the support staff,” Mithali had stated in 2019. “Lot more matches and international series started to get scheduled for us and also contracts came into effect which gave security to the players and they were able to focus on their game.”
Mithali Raj has had a fantastic T20 profession and also became the initially Indian to score 2000 T20I runs. The cricketer who created her T20I debut in 2006 stated that the game has witnessed quite a few alterations considering the fact that then and the introduction of numerous leagues across the globe has offered fantastic players to the sport.
Women’s cricket continues to attract additional and additional admirers each and every passing day. But acquiring Test matches scheduled for the females teams nonetheless remains a challenge as the prime concentrate appears to be on the shorter formats.
Mithali, on the other hand, believes that the International Cricket Council (ICC) is advertising the women’s game globally and are undertaking what ever is most effective for the sport.