Mitali Raj Biography: ICC Ranking, Age, Career Info & Batting Stats

Written by Rayden Sam Posted on 2024-02-25

Right-handed batter Mithali Dorai Raj is an Indian cricket player who was born on 3 December 1982.

Mitali Raj Profile: Between 1999 and 2022, Mitali Raj was a member of the Indian team and served as captain. In women’s international cricket. Mithali has scored the most runs and is regarded as one of the best female players in history.

Mitali Raj Journey

Mithali set a lot of records in the game of cricket on the world stage. In Women’s One Day International cricket matches, only she has amassed more than 7,000 runs.
Only she has ever scored seven straight 50s in an ODI.
In June 2018, at the 2018 Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup, she created history by being the first Indian cricketer, male or female, to score 2000 T20 International runs.
Mithali set a lot of records in the game of cricket on the world stage. In Women’s One Day International cricket matches, only she has amassed more than 7,000 runs.
Only she has ever scored seven straight 50s in an ODI.
She made history in June 2018 by becoming the first male or female cricketer from India to reach 2000 T20 International runs and the first woman to do it at the 2018 Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup.

Mitali Raj Early Life

In Jodhpur, Rajasthan, Mithali Raj was born on December 3rd, 1982. Her mother is Leela Raj, and her father, Dorai Raj, speaks Tamil.
Dorai Raj served as an airman (warrant officer) in the Indian Air Force. At the age of ten, Mithali began to play the game.
She resides in Telangana’s Hyderabad. She went to Hyderabad’s Keyes High School for Girls. For her intermediate education, she enrolled at Kasturba Gandhi Junior College for Women in Secunderabad.
She and her older brother began coaching cricket while still in school.

Mitali Raj Domestic Career

In the domestic league, Mithali started off playing for Air India alongside celebrities like Purnima Rau, Anjum Chopra, and Anju Jain before switching to play for Railways. In the Women’s T20 Challenge, she has participated in the Supernovas and Velocity.

Mitali Raj International Career

For India, Mithali has participated in Test, One Day, and T20 matches. When she was barely 14 years old, she was named as one of the probables for the 1997 Women’s Cricket World Cup, but she was unable to make the final roster.
In 1999, she faced Ireland in Milton Keynes for her first One Day International and hit an unbeaten 114 runs. Against South Africa in Lucknow during the 2001–2002 season, she played her first Test match.
She set a new record of 214 against England in the second and final Test at County Ground, Taunton, on August 17, 2002, when she was 19 years old. At the time, Karen Rolton had held the record for the best individual Test score in history with a 209*.