Here are some Interesting yet unknown facts about Mithali Raj :
- Initially a dancer: Before cricket, Mithali was into classical dancing. During her childhood and teenage days, she learned Bharatnatyam and wanted make her name in the same field. But it seems she was destined for something else and later she became one of the most successful players of Indian women’s cricket team.
- Lazy girl: Cricket was never Mithali’s first choice, infact it was never on her to-do list. Her parents introduced Mithali to cricket because she was very lazy and since her father was an officer in Indian Air Force, he wanted his daughter to be disciplined and active. In an interview with BCCI, Mithali said, “From the beginning I played cricket only to make my parents happy.”
- Lady Sachin: When Mithali became the second female cricketer to cross 5000 ODI runs, twitterati started calling her as ‘Lady Sachin’.
- Youngest Women's cricketer to hit century: There have been only five woman cricketers who have scored hundred on debut and Mithali is the fourth player after Enid Bakewell, Lynne Thomas and Reshma Gandhi and also she is the youngest women’s cricketer to score a hundred on her debut in ODIs against Ireland at the age of just just 16 years and 250 days old.
- Second Highest scorer in ODI: With 5,301 runs in ODIs, currently Mithali is the second highest run scorer after Charlotte Edwards 5,885 runs and also With 158ODIs, she is the second most capped ODI women’s cricketer in the world after Charlotte Edwards (188).
- Best Average in T20: So far, she has played 58 T20Is for India in which she averages 35.42, which is the best by any woman cricketer in the world.
- Awards and Achievements: In the year 2003, she was given the prestigious Arjuna Award by Government of India. In April 2015, she became the first female cricketer to win the Wisden India Cricketer of the Year. In the same year, Mithali was honoured by India’s fourth highest civilian award (Padma Shri).
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