Mithali Raj goes past 20,000 international career runs

Mithali is already the highest scorer in women's international cricket across the three formats of the game, achieving the feat during the tour of England earlier this year.

Published : Sep 21, 2021 10:34 IST , MACKAY, AUSTRALIA

India women's ODI skipper Mithali Raj on Tuesday went past 20,000 runs in her cricketing career.

She brought up the feat in the ongoing first ODI of the three-match series against Australia here at the Harrup Park in Mackay.

The Indian skipper played a knock of 61 runs from 107 balls, helping the visitor post 225/8 in the allotted fifty overs.

Mithali is already the highest scorer in women's international cricket across the three formats of the game, achieving the feat during the tour of England earlier this year.

 

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Mithali might have played a 61-run knock but Darcie Brown's four-wicket haul helped Australia restrict India to 225/8. Apart from Mithali, Yastrika Bhatia also chipped in with an innings of 35 runs, with the help of two boundaries.

Sent in to bat, Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana provided a quickfire start as the opening duo put on 31 runs inside the first four overs. However, Australia stormed right back as Brown dismissed both Shafali (8) and Mandhana (16), reducing India to 38/2 in the sixth over.

Yastika and Mithali then got together at the crease and both batters put on 77 runs for the third wicket, but as soon as India started to gain an upper hand, the side lost the wicket of Bhatia (35) to Brown in the 26th over.

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Deepti Sharma (9) failed to leave a mark with the bat, handing Brown her fourth wicket and India was reduced to 129/4 in the 31st over. Mithali's knock of 61 runs off 107 balls was finally brought to an end by Sophie Molineux in the 38th over.

Molineux had Mithali stumped, bringing Richa Ghosh and Pooja Vastrakar together at the crease. The lower-order was not able to contribute much as India had to settle for a score of 225.

In the final overs, Richa Ghosh and Jhulan Goswami played cameos of 32 and 20, respectively.

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