Mithali Raj Retires from T20Is

India’s Marquee Women Cricketer, Mithali Raj has announced retirement from T20 Internationals. She has led India in 32 T20Is including the three Women’s WT20 World Cups in 2012 (Sri Lanka), 2014 (Bangladesh) and 2016 (India). She was also the captain in India Women’s first-ever T20I played in Derby back in 2006

She has played 89 games in which she scored 2364 runs, the most by an Indian woman in T20Is. Mithali is also the first Indian to reach the landmark of 2000 T20I runs. “I wish to retire from T20Is to focus my energies on readying myself for the 2021 One Day World Cup. It remains my dream to win a World Cup for my country,” she said.

Her last T20I appearance came against England, in Guwahati, where she scored an unbeaten 32-ball 30. She finishes as the sixth-highest run-getter in T20Is. Mithali Raj was controversially dropped from the World T20 semi-final in 2018.

This announcement has come days ahead of selection meeting for South Africa tour