Women cricketers can have girls position fashions now: Mithali Raj on leaving her legacy in Indian cricket

Mithali Raj referred to as time on her illustrious profession that lasted 23 years. She retires as the very best worldwide run getter in girls’s worldwide cricket.

File picture of Mithali Raj scoring a century within the 2017 Women’s World Cup. (Courtesy: Reuters)

HIGHLIGHTSMithali Raj spoke about her legacy in Indian cricketMithali Raj is among the solely two girls’s gamers to have breached 10k worldwide runsMithali Raj’s profession lasted 23 years

India stalwart Mithali Raj determined to name time on her profession on Wednesday, 9 June, after 23 years of service to the nationwide workforce. Raj, one of many best proponents of cricket India has seen on the time of retirement, had essentially the most variety of runs as a girls’s worldwide batter. She was solely the second batter to have breached 10,000 runs as a lady and on the time of retirement had notched up 10,868 runs.

Raj, in her illustrious enjoying profession was a serial record-breaker and stood the take a look at of time enjoying 232 WODIs, essentially the most anybody has ever performed until date. Speaking solely with India Today after her retirement, Raj mentioned that he was joyful that girls cricketers now have girls position fashions.

“When I started cricket I did not anticipate that one day young girls will look up to me. But I am happy that today’s girls have role models,” Raj mentioned.

She referred to as it her legacy in Indian cricket that through the 90s, girls couldn’t mannequin themselves after girls idols and now they will.

“The good thing is that women cricketers can be role models now, when I started out it was just men’s cricketers in the 90s,” she mentioned.

The former India captain beneath whom India narrowly misplaced the World Cup mentioned that girls’s cricket had come a great distance in India and he or she might see a brilliant future.

“Starting from an exclusive boys camp where I was the only girl, today I’ll be leaving a legacy where there are minimum of 60-100 girls in each camp,” Raj mentioned in regards to the change.

“I only foresee a very bright future of women’s cricket in our country,” she predicted.

Asked about one factor she might change in her profession, Raj identified on the lack of World Cup in her cabinet and mentioned that she might do something to vary the outcomes on that day.