Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mithali Raj (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian former cricketer who captained the national team from 2004 to 2022. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket, and ESPN ranked her as one of the greatest female cricketers of all time.
Mithali Raj is the former Test and ODI captain of the women's national cricket team. She led India to the finals of the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup. The film, based on her life, chronicles the events of her life's journey in the world of women's cricket. It presents her struggles and euphoric rise in women's cricket.
Coaches like Apurva Sharma and Suman Sharma also played a significant role in moulding her as a cricketer. She considered Mithali Raj as a role model when she was a child. Significantly, when Veda was 12, Mithali was felicitated at her school. [4] Veda later went on to play with Mithali in both domestic and national teams. [13]
[35] [36] Kaur was part of the Indian team to reach the final of the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup where the team lost to England by nine runs. [37] [38] [39] In July 2017, Harman became second India batter to feature in the top-10 of ICC Women's ODI Player Rankings after Mithali Raj. [40] Kaur receiving Arjuna Award in 2020
The Indian women's team played their first ever ODI match in 1978, against England, [3] after the Women's Cricket Association of India was formed. [4] The Women's Cricket Association of India was merged with the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2006 as part of the International Cricket Council's initiative to develop women's cricket. [5]
A women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) is a 20 overs-per-side cricket match played in a maximum of 150 minutes between two ICC member sides, and is played under the rules of Twenty20 cricket. [1] The first such match was held in August 2004 between England and New Zealand . [ 2 ]
Goswami along with Mithali Raj guided Indian Women's Cricket team to first Test series win in England in 2006–07 season. [12] During the same season, Goswami helped Indian Women Cricket team to get their first victory against England, making a fifty as nightwatchman in the first Test at Leicester and taking her career best match figures of 10 ...
India's Mithali Raj has scored seven WODI centuries, [1] the first at 16 years of age, the second youngest player just behind Amy Hunter. [2] A women's One Day International (WODI) is an international cricket match between two teams, each having WODI status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC). [3]