HYDERABAD: Mithali Raj, the most capped player and highest runscorer in the history of women’s cricket, India’s most successful women’s captain, and a legend who inspired many young girls to take up the game, brought the curtains down on a glittering 23-year career on Wednesday.
Having made her debut as a 16-year-old in 1999, Mithali went on to play 12 Tests, 232 ODIs and 89 T20Is. Her aggregate of 10,868 international runs in 333 matches — ODIS, Tests and T20I — will take some beating. The 39-year-old scored 7,805 runs at an average of 50.7 in ODIs — a world record — and led India to 89 victories in 155 ODIs, the most for any woman captain.
