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India's greatest woman batsman: Mithali Raj

 Mithali Dorai Raj is the only female to surpass the 7,000 run mark in Women's One Day International matches and the first player to score seven consecutive 50's in ODIs.

Raj was born on 3 December 1982 in a Tamil family in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Her father is Dorai Raj, who was an Airman in the Indian Air Force, and mother is Leela Raj. she started playing at age of 10. she started her cricket coaching in school days along with her elder brother.

Mithali Raj

She is right-handed opening batter and occasional right-arm leg break bowler and also she is the ODI captain of women's national cricket team. 

Mithali 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 losts to Australia. She is a part-time leg-break bowler as well. She is a recipient of the Arjuna award for the year 2003. She currently tops the batting table with 703 ratings.

At the 2013 Women's World Cup, Raj was the No.1 cricketer in the ODI chart among women.

She is the first player to captain most matches for India in ODI and T20I. She was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's ODI team of the year. 

In 2019, Raj has retied from T20I cricket. Raj was nominated for the Rachael Heyhoe-flint Award for ICC Female cricketer of the decade and the award for women's ODI Cricketer of the decade.

She is the recipient of several national and international awards, including the Wisden Leading Woman Cricketer in the World in 2017, Arjuna Award in 2003, and the Padma Shri in 2015, both by the Government of India.

In May 2021, she was named as the captain of India's Test squad for their one-off match against the England women's cricket team.


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