Mithali Raj is one such influential personality in sports who has marked her stance in cricket and has been one of the most destructive players in the women’s team. Mithali Raj has been a total inspiration for all her fans all around the world. Mithali Raj also claimed her position as the sportsperson of the year in the year 2017 by Vogue. Mithali Raj made her test debut in the year 1999 on 19th June against the team England. She was then selected as the captain of the team India in the year 2005and became the only player to lead her team to finals in two ODI world cups.
1. Passion before cricket
Before Mithali Raj got famous in her cricket career, she was into dancing and she learned Bharatnatyam and wanted to follow her passion. But later, her destiny fell into another option.
2. Her career in cricket
Mithali Raj has made the better out of her career, Mithali Raj became the second female cricketer to have scored more than 5,000 runs in ODI and she is also the highest run-scorer in the women’s team.
3. Her job if not a cricketer
Mithali Raj in an interview revealed that her last choice if not a cricketer would be a civil server. “I would have been in civil services. Though I loved Bharatanatyam and pursued it quite seriously, I would have loved to get into the civil services,” she said.
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