Record-breaking Mithali Raj became the leading run-scorer in women's international cricket

Biography

She is the top scorer in women's world cricket and the only female cricketer to break the 7,000-run mark in women's one-day internationals. She is the first contestant to reach seven consecutive 50s in Odis.  Raj is also the record holder for the number of centuries in Vodis.In June 2018, throughout the 2018 Women's Asian Cup, she became the main participant from India (both male and female) to reach 2000 runs in T20Is and became the main female cricketer to reach 2002 WT20I runs. In 2005, she became the captain of the "Edge". Raj is the most skillful participant (female) who has captained India in several recent ICC ODI World Cups, twice in 2005 and 2017. On 1 February 2019, during India's series against New Zealand women, Raj became the first woman to play in 2 ODI hundreds.




 In September 2019, she announced her retirement from T20Is to consciousness in ODI cricket. In 2019, she became the first woman to finish in 20 years in world cricket. She is the recipient of several national and international awards, such as the Wise Leading Female Cricketer in the World Award in 2017, the Arjuna Award in 2003, and the Padma Shri Award in 2015 in India. In July 2021, in a 0.33 WODI match against England, Raj became the top scorer in women's world cricket. It went beyond the previous document by Charlotte Edwards, numbering 10,273 runs.


Early Life

Mitali Raj was born on December 3, 1982 in a Tamil family in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Her father is Dorai Raj, who became a pilot (warrant officer) in The Indian Air Force, and my mother is Leela Raj. Raj started playing this game at the age of 10. She lives in Hyderabad, Telangana. She attended Keyes Girls ' High School in Hyderabad. She studied at Kasturba Gandhi Junior Women's College in Secunderabad for her intermediate studies. She started coaching cricket at the faculty together with her older brother.



Youth and the domestic profession

Playing for the Railways in the domestic competition, Raj started by gambling with stars such as Purnima Rau, Anjum Chopra and Anju Jain for Air India. 



International career
Mitali has played in all 3 formats of cricket for India, the One-Day Test, and T20. She dressed up as many likely participants in the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup when she was just 14 years old, but failed to make the most recent squad. She made her international debut in 1999 in a match against Ireland in Milton Keynes and scored 114 winning runs. She made her test debut in the 2001-02 season against South Africa in Lucknow. On August 17, 2002, at the age of nineteen, in her third test, she violated Karen Rolton's document on the maximum individual test score in the world of 209*, scoring a new maximum of 214 in England during the second and final Test at the County Ground, Taunton. The document, considering that it was transmitted through Kiran Belukh from Pakistan, who scored 242 points towards the West Indies in March 2004. Raj contracted typhoid fever during the Women's World Cup in KrikInfo in 2002, which seriously hindered India's progress. However, she then led them to their first World Cup in 2005, in South Africa, where they met Australia, who proved too strong. In August 2006, she led the team to their first-ever victory in tests and series in England and ended the year with a victory at the Asian Cup – the second time in three hundred and sixty–five days without quitting the unmarried sport.

 She led the Indian team to the final of the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup, in which the group lost to Australia. She, as it should be, simultaneously spoils her legs with a bowler hat. She is the recipient of the Arjuna Award for 12 months of 2003. She currently tops the batting table with 703 ratings. Her composure while at the crease and ability to score quickly make her a risky cricketer. In addition to her potential with the bat, Raj rolls her arm over the bowling spinners and offers variety to the attack.At the 2013 Women's World Cup, Raj became the No. 1 cricketer on the ODI Girls ' chart. She scored 100 points: 1 and 50 points: 4 in test cricket, 100 points: 5 and 50 points: 50 with good 3/4 bowling in ODIs, and 50 points: 10 in T20s. In February 2017, she became the second contestant to reach five 500 runs in WODIs.




 Raj is the first contestant to captain maximum suits for India in ODI and T20I. In July 2017, she became the first participant to reach 6000 runs in WODIs. She led the Indian national team to the final of the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup, where the team lost to England by 9 runs. In December 2017, she was named one of the members of the ICC women's ODI team of the Year.In October 2018, she changed into the Indian squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.In September 2019, Raj retired from T20I cricket. She dreams of delivering the World Cup to her country before 2021. "After representing India in international T20 competitions in 2006, I want to retire from T20Is to focus my energy on preparing for the 2021 One-day World Cup," she said in a BCCI press statement. In November 2020, Raj was nominated for the Rachel Heyhoe-Flint Award for the Best Female Cricketer of the ICC Decade and the award for the Best Women's ODI Cricket Team of the Last Decade.In May 2021, she was named as the captain of the India test team for his or her one-off match against the England women's cricket team.
Coach's profession
Raj was appointed as a batting consultant for the India women's national cricket team across the country and acted as a participating coach.


Raj at the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup
Mitali has been nicknamed "The Lady Tendulkar of Indian Women's cricket", as she is currently India's top scorer in all formats consisting of Tests, ODIs, and T20Is. During the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup, Raj scored her seventh consecutive half-century and made a file for a maximum of fifty consecutive years through a participant. Mitali is the 1st Indian and 5th standard for women cricketers who have passed more than 1000 World Cup stages. She holds the file to participate in the maximum consecutive women's one-day international competitions for a group (109).
Controversies
Mitali Raj was involved in a controversy with the control of cricket due to her attitude to the management of the game at some stage of the 2018 FIFA Women's World Cup in 2020. She accused coach Ramesh Cook and BCCI board member Diana Edulji in a letter to the BCCI of bias, the humiliation of not currently being with her in the semi-finals of the international T20 Cup. Cook, in turn, criticized that Raj threatened that she might retire from the sport of cricket, while she was asked to play the batting order. He also accused Raj of "blackmailing and pressuring the coaches", in addition to harming the team throughout the currently concluded T20 World Cup. He said: "Regardless of whether she is a senior player on the team, she makes a minimal contribution to team conferences. 


She couldn't understand and adapt to the team's plan. She dropped her role and took up personal milestones. The lack of maintaining the momentum, which created more stress for different batters." Raj's 50th match against Ireland as part of an equal event, in which she eventually lost by 25 point goals, turned into additional criticism from the teacher, the Cook. It is said that her courtship with the captain of the T20 team Harmanpri Kaur was also tense, however, after the reappointment of Ramesh Cook as the head coach of the Indian women's cricket team in May 2021, they reconciled. Mitali and Harmanpreet additionally confirmed their lack of dislike for each other during various interviews.


Leading run-scorer in international cricket
Mitali Raj, the Indian test and ODI captain, surpassed former England captain Charlotte Edwards as the leading scorer in women's international cricket on Saturday. The 38-year-old Raj improved Edwards ' score by 10,273 in the 24th round of the Indian innings in the 1/3 ODI at Worcester. She reached the milestone with 4 points on the ground from fast bowler Nat Skiver. New Zealand's Susie Bates is 0.33 th on the list with 7849 runs. Raj finished with seventy-five wins without defeat, leading India to a 4-point victory on Saturday. After being named player of the match, she instructed Sky Sports: "There's no way I gave up in the middle. It happens in the middle because you can't win a healthy spot in the dugout. I wanted to win the game for the team."I just needed to establish a partnership to finish the job. This is what made me go through the handouts. I knew that in the middle of the frame I had to manage the sport. 

When you have young players on the side, you want to lead their side by side, it's a responsibility."When asked about becoming the top scorer in international women's competitions, Raj said: "I'm just happy, thank you."On July 12, 2017, at some point at the league level of the eleventh ODI World Cup, Raj went beyond Edwards to become the best runner in the women's ODI. With a similar landing towards Australia, she became the first batter to pass 6000 runs as part of the layout. Her 58 fifties, 3 of which came here as part of the ODI stage of the ongoing multi-match series against England, belong to a lady in ODIs the most. Raj will stop T20I cricket in September 2019 and will take 7th place in the list of the world's top scorers with 2364 runs at an average of 37.52 and a strike rate of 96.33. Harmanpreet Kaur, who replaced Raj as captain of T20I, is the best Indian in the top ten of this chart. In tests, her 669 runs from 11 matches with an average of 44.60 are the fourth highest among Indian women players and the highest among Indians, no matter how lively they are in women's world cricket. Raj, who has spent 22 years as a cricketer in India in the last month, is one win away from becoming the most successful captain in the women's ODI.