Mithali Raj, the captain of the Indian women’s cricket ODI team, is celebrating her 38th birthday on 3 December 2020. Mithali Raj, who was the captain of the Indian team for a long time, will not be wrong if she is called the Sachin Tendulkar of women’s cricket, because her figures are amazing. Such figures are also recorded in the name of the great Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar. One similarity between the two is that both of these Indian giants have shown their stamina in international cricket for more than two decades.
Mithali Raj’s father, who belongs to a Tamil family, was in the Air Force. Mithali was very lazy in childhood, which her father did not like at all. To make his daughter active, he put a cricket bat in Mithali’s hand. At the age of 10, Mithali again started learning cricket tricks and made her debut at the age of 17. In his first match, Mithali surprised everyone by playing an unbeaten 114-run innings against Ireland.
Mithali Raj has retired from T20 International Cricket, but is still playing ODI International Cricket. Milati had scored a century against Ireland in their first ODI. In his debut ODI match he scored an unbeaten 114, while his partner Reshma Gandhi also played a century. Since then, Mithali Raj has played more than 200 ODIs so far.
Mithali Raj is the first woman cricketer in the world to have played more than 200 ODIs for her country. Mithali Raj has scored 6888 runs in 189 innings of 209 matches at an average of 50.64, including seven centuries and 53 half-centuries. He has not played a single ODI match since November 2019. Even India has not participated in ODI cricket since last year. Mithali Raj’s half-century in women’s ODI international cricket is a world record in itself. So many half-centuries have not been won by any female player in ODI cricket.
Cricketer Mithali Raj played a T20 match in February 2006 and scored 51 runs. He scored 5005 runs in February. She bathes with the right hand and bowls the leg break with the left hand. Mithali was awarded the ‘Arjuna Award’ in the year 2003. In the year 2015, Mithali Raj was given the ‘Padma Shri’ award.
