India Women’s skipper Mithali Raj has now become the highest run aggregator in Women’s international cricket, surpassing former England captain Charlotte Edwards’ 10,273 runs. The Indian captain achieved the feat while batting in the third and final ODI of the three-match series between India and England at New Road in Worcester. Before the start of the game, the 38-year-old was just 12 runs away from breaking the record.
The record was finally broken in the 24th over of the Indian innings when Raj hit England vice-captain Nat Sciver for a four while she was batting on 12. At the time of writing this, the Indian team, chasing a tricky total of 220 runs in 47 overs, were 117-3 at the time of writing the news with skipper and vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur at the crease. The Women in Blue required 103 from 108 balls.
As far as Mithali is concerned, she completed 22 years in international cricket just last month and in that long illustrious career, the Railways player has played 216 ODIs, 89 T20Is and 11 Tests, hitting eight centuries and 78 fifties across formats.
The Indian team has so far been winless on the tour and it is the most opportune moment for Mithali to celebrate her world record and to finish her tour with a win as she would not be a part of the T20I series which would take place after the completion of the third ODI.