mithali raj Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
mithali raj is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Mithali Dorai Raj
Born
December 03, 1982, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Age
40 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Teams he has played for:
- Air India Women
- Asia Women XI
- India Blue Women
- India Women
- Velocity
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Born in Jodhpur to a Tamil family, Raj grew up in Hyderabad learning the basics alongside her brother, having made the tough choice of giving up on her passion - dance. Admittedly forced into the game by a strict disciplinarian father, Raj's many sacrifices bore fruit when at 19, playing just her third Test, she surpassed Karen Rolton's 209* with her 214 to set the new record of best individual score (now second-highest) in the longest format. Her 18-year career (and counting) has been a roller coaster of a ride but, fortunately for her, the runs never dried up.
The World Cup snub made her stronger and more determined, but when her chance finally came, Raj was laid low by typhoid in the 2000 edition. However, she made up for it by leading India into the finals of 2005 edition, which also remains the side's best finish in the mega event thus far. The cup has remained elusive but Raj has stacked up some serious numbers, and many firsts amongst them, to establish herself as the face of women's sport.
Pushed into opening in T20Is by former teammate and then coach Purnima Rau, Raj's career graph saw an unprecedented climb in the shortest format of the game. Since then, she's become as indispensable in the opening slot as she is to India's middle-order in 50-overs cricket.
The second most-capped player in ODI history behind Charlotte Edwards, Raj overtook the former England captain's tally of all-time highest runs in the format (5992) when she punched Ellyse Perry for a single in the 29th over of India's World Cup game against Australia. In the same match, she also became the first-ever to scale 6000 runs in women's cricket. Raj is only the third player in women's history to lead the country in 100-plus ODIs. Her tally of 49 half-centuries in the 50-over format - and seven of them on the trot - are both a record.
Raj's consistency is second to none. She's left behind some of the most prolific names in men's circuit - let alone women's - with a career average of over 51. In the form of her life even at 34, it wouldn't come as a surprise when she goes on to become the first women ever to 200 caps.
Bharatnatayam's loss is cricket's gain.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
India's greatest female batter, Mithali Raj, has reached milestones aplenty in her storied international career spanning more than two decades. The woman with most runs in the game, and the only Indian captain - male or female - to have led the side to two 50-over World Cup finals, the only major distinction that eludes the incumbent ODI captain is the tag of a World Cup winner. In pursuit of that dream, Raj bowed out of T20Is in September 2019, as India's highest run-scorer, having last led the side in the format during the 2016 T20 World Cup at home.
At 16, Raj scored an unbeaten 114 on ODI debut and soon established herself as the lynchpin of India's batting. The roots of her copybook stroke play lay in her precocious talent that blossomed under the tutelage of her former coach, the late Sampath Kumar, and a regimented upbringing in an army family. With a passion for Bharatanatyam, her nifty footwork found expression on the field, becoming as much a hallmark of her batting as have been grace and an unrivalled precision at plundering runs in the cover region.
Her technical soundness and ability to anchor an innings at the top of the order in all three formats have inspired two generations of India batsmen. Both those skills underpinned her highest Test score of 214, in 2002, and later an unbeaten 91 in the 2005 ODI World Cup semi-final, a knock she rates at par with her double-century.
During the 2017 ODI World Cup, Raj surpassed former England captain Charlotte Edwards to become the highest run-scorer in ODIs and the first woman to 6000 runs in the format. Her 409-run tally in the tournament was second only to England opener Tammy Beaumont's, while her three fifties and a century were vital to India's runners-up finish.
In the 2018 T20 World Cup in the Caribbean, Raj found herself embroiled in a controversy in the wake of her omission from the semi-final. She accused then head coach Ramesh Powar of unfair and discriminatory behaviour and expressed her disappointment over T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur's decision to support her exclusion.
In October 2019, Raj, at 36, became the first woman to complete two decades in ODI cricket. Annesha Ghosh