Indian women's cricket team captain ''Mithali Raj''

Mithali Raj is current captain of Indian women's cricket team.
She born in 3rd dec. 1982 in Jodhpur, Rajsthan.
Mithali started playing cricket at a tender age of 10 and in 1999 at 17, she was picked for the Indian team. At 19 she emerged as one of India’s most capable batswoman with a staggering 214 against England in the second and final Test at tounton. 

Her father, Dorai Raj, was an officer in the Indian Air Force and her mother, Leela Raj, a tamil mudaliar couple from Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
She made her One Day International debut in 1999 against Ireland at Milton Keynes and scored 114 runs without getting out in that match. She made her Test match debut in the 2001-02 season against England at Lucknow.

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	Ct	St
Tests	8	13	2	572	214	52.00	1	3	7	0
ODIs	145	132	37	4622	114*	48.65	4	36	32	0
T20Is	37	37	10	885	52*	32.77	0	3	8	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	8	5	72	32	0	-	-	-	2.66	-	0	0	0
ODIs	145	10	171	91	8	3/4	3/4	11.37	3.19	21.3	0	0	0
T20Is	37	1	6	6	0	-	-	-	6.00	-	0	0	0

Opening Spell: 
What inspired you to start playing cricket?
I was actually into classical dance. It was my parents who you could say, nudged me towards cricket. So I joined a summer camp with my brother. From then on my interest just grew in the game and I started training myself for the big league. It was in 91-92 that I starting playing for the state.

Who would you say is your inspiration?
I think master blaster Tendulkar is my inspiration. He has been playing the game for years now and his level of batting is something else. The way he maintains and reinvents himself at this stage in his career, is something that everyone can learn from.

When you started playing for the national team, women’s cricket wasn’t even in the news; did that make you want to rethink joining the team?No, I loved the game too much to be bothered about the coverage and endorsements. Playing the game with my team was all that I cared about. My parents put me into the game and till date I haven’t ever regretted the decision.

How supportive was your family?
Very, I mean, it was because of my parents that I took up the game in the first place. It was because of their confidence in me that I actually believed that I could be a world class cricketer.