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“My dad told me to choose cricket over my board exams...

MITHALI RAJ,38

Her performance in the inter-zonal tournament in 2000 helped her earn a place in the women’s world cup in New Zealand. Two years later, she became the vice-captain of the women’s national cricket team, and its captain in 2005. Today, she’s the only cricketer to have scored 6,000 runs in women’s ODIs

As a young girl, Mithali Raj loved accompanying her

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