Mithali Raj creates history, becomes first Indian woman to score 10,000 International runs

Indian women’s team ODI skipper, Mithali Raj became only the second woman in the world to reach the milestone of 10,000 runs in all forms of cricket. She joined English Women’s cricket legend Charlotte Edwards in the elite list. En-route her 36 run innings vs South Africa in the third match of the 5-match ODI series, Raj crossed the 10k barrier to become the first Indian woman to get to the magic figure. 

Mithali, 38, is also the all-time leading run-scorer in woman’s ODI cricket with 6974 runs in her kitty at an average of 50.64 and at a strike rate of 85. The Andhra born has seven hundreds and 54 fifties in her 212 match ODI career. Apart from the ODIs, she has also scored 2364 runs in 89 T20Is and 663 in runs in 10 Tests. 

The match in which this feat was achieved is the third game of the five-match series which is tied at 1-1. The Indian women have set up a target of 249 courtesy a 77 off 108 balls by Punam Raut. In reply, South Africa women were at 55-1 in the reply at the time of writing this piece.