Mithali Raj Wiki, Marriage, Age, Height, Stats,.

Mithali Raj was the captian of Indian cricket team when Indian team was playing their first ever match against Africa in Derby 2006. She led India in 32 matches and 3 world cups. In her 89 matches she scored 2364 runs including 17 Fifties with a career best 97 not out. However, Mithali Raj couldn’t get appreciable support from the fellow women cricketers. Despite her stunning performances, India made a first-round exit in the 2013 Women’s World Cup at home. Then in the Women’s World T20 2014, Raj couldn’t stop her team from bowing out from the semi-finals. Mithali was born into a Tamil Family in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur; wherever her father, Dorai Raj, was on his last Indian Air Force posting. Mithali’s mother, Leela, describes her entry into Cricket as serendipitous; as she became keen on the sport by incidental to her elder brother, Mithun, to his six am cricket coaching job category at St John’s Academy.

Indian women’s Cricket has plunged into a crisis since the defeat against England in the World T20 semifinal last week. The row between ODI captain and the senior most cricketer Mithali Raj and the now former coach Ramesh Powar has threatened to tear the team apart with Captain Harmanpreet Kaur caught in the middle of it. Mithali Raj T Sports. 1.5K likes. Amateur Sports Team. Shah Rukh Khan sits down to interview Mithali Raj, the captain of the Indian Women's Cricket Team. He starts with a hard question -- the World Cup: What really happened?