Mithali Dorai Raj

Mithali Dorai Raj

Real Name: Mithali Dorai Raj
Nickname: Lady Sachin
Profession: Indian Women Cricketer (Batsman)
Date of Birth: 3 December 1982
Age (as in 2017): 34 Years
Birth Place: Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Nationality: Indian
Hometown: Hyderabad, India
School: St. Johns School, Hyderabad
College: Not Known
Educational Qualification: Not Known
Father- Dorai Raj (Indian Air Force)
Mother- Leela Raj (Former Cricketer)
Brother- Mithun Raj

Mithali Raj Family & Personal Life:

Mithali was born on 3 December 1982 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan in a tamil family. She was from tamil based family, her parents Dorai Raj (Father) is Indian Air Force officer and Mother Leela Raj is a house wife. Her family later settled in Andhra Pradesh and she started playing cricket at the age of 10.

She started playing cricket in his school, St. Johns school, Hyderabad long with this elder brother. Also she used to practice with male cricket players in nets at Keyes Girls High School, Secunderabad. She is professionally trained dancer in her childhood and later quit from dance to take cricket as her career. She is unmarried and Salary, Net worth details not known.

Mithali Raj Career & Facts:

Made her cricketing debut for Indian National Team in 1999 at the age of 17 against reland in Milton Kenynes and scored 114 Runs. She is few among female cricket who represent test and ODI crikcet in India. In 2001, She debut in test cricket against South africa.

At the age of 19, She set a new world record for highest individual score for a women cricketer in test match. By surpassing Karen Rolton’s world record of 209 runs and scored 214.

In 2005, Captain Mithali helped team India to reach finals of IC Women’s Cricket World Cup and lost against Australia in the finals. The tournament shows the strength of team India to world cricket.

In 2006, Under her captaincy, Team India has won first ever women test cricket series agianst England. In the same year. India won Asia cup without losing single game.

Raj became second player to surpass 5500 Runs in ODI cricket in 2017 and also cricket record of Captaining most number of matches for India in all three formats ODI, Test and T20.

She played domestic circuit for Railways alomg with star players Purnima Rau, Anjum Chopra and more. Mithali nick named as “Tendulkar of Indian women’s cricket” after being leading run scorer in all three formats for India.

Raj was honored by Indian Government with prestigious Arjunas award in 2003 and Padma Shri Award in 2015.

Facts About Mithali Raj

Mithali was just 10 when she started playing cricket.She was admitted to St. John’s cricket coaching camp in Hyderabad by her parents. Former Hyderabad Ranji player, Jyothi Prasad mentored.In the domestic circuit, Mithali has represented Air India, Railways and India Blue.Mithali Raj’s blue jersey number is 3. Any guess why? Her birth date is 3 Dec.At 21, Mithali Raj became the youngest captain of the Indian Cricket Team. The lady cricket star has led the team in over 100 cricket matches (maximum by an Indian woman).Mithali has 5 centuries under her belt in Test Cricket. This young achiever also holds the record of scoring most ‘90s.In 2015, Mithali became the first woman cricketer to make it to the list of Wisden Indian Cricketers of the year.In terms of ODI records, Mithali Raj is now the leading run scorer just like the God of Indian Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar who is the leading run scorer in men’s ODI history with 18,426 runs.Two cricket legends Mithali admires the style most when it comes to batting – Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting.So much for her reading bug? Mithali carries her Kindle on all her tours.As a young girl, Mithali loved dancing and was training to be a Bharatnatyam dancer.Mithali is a social media bug. She is widely followed on Twitter by over 20,000 fans. With the starting of ICC Women’s World Cup 2017, Mithali got her own Twitter emoji. On FB, Mithali has over 4 lac likes, and on Instagram more than 89,000 followers.