“It Helped Turn A Page In Indian Women’s Cricket”: Mithali Raj On 5 Years Of 2017 World Cup Final

One of many best gamers to ever play in girls’s cricket and former India captain Mithali Raj remembered the fifth anniversary of the historic 2017 Ladies’s World Cup closing on Saturday. Mithali, who led India to the long-lasting closing in opposition to England on the ‘Mecca of Cricket’ Lord’s Cricket Floor, stated that they could not have gained the ICC World Cup in 2017 however the occasion modified the panorama of ladies’s cricket.

Mithali Raj took to Twitter and shared, “Today at Lord’s in 2017 didn’t favour us however I consider it helped flip a web page in Indian girls’s cricket. It modified the angle towards girls’s cricket in India. The help our staff obtained thereafter sparked a revolution with youthful skills taking over the sport.”

India had concluded their World Cup marketing campaign on the third spot within the factors desk with 5 victories in 7 matches within the round-robin stage of the event and confronted Australia within the semi-finals. Harmanpreet Kaur’s record-breaking 171*-run knock destroyed the event’s favorite Australians as India certified for the ultimate.

India misplaced the ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2017 closing in opposition to England by 9 runs. The Mithali Raj-led facet was in a superb place to carry its first-ever trophy however Anya Shrubsole’s six-wicket haul snatched India’s happiness.