Former India skipper Mithali Raj hints at making a COMEBACK to enjoying cricket – verify particulars | Cricket Information

Legendary India batter and former captain Mithali Raj has hinted at popping out of retirement to play within the inaugural version of the ladies’s IPL. The inaugural version of the ladies’s IPL, which could possibly be a six-team occasion, is assumed to be launched subsequent yr.

Mithali, who introduced her retirement in June this yr, is maintaining all her choices open for the opportunity of that includes within the first version of ladies’s IPL.

“I am maintaining that possibility open. I’ve not but determined. There are just a few extra months to go earlier than the ladies’s IPL occurs. It could be beautiful to be a part of the primary version of the ladies’s IPL,” mentioned Mithali on the primary episode of 100 per cent cricket podcast by the ICC.

Thanks for all of your love & assist through the years!

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— Mithali Raj (@M_Raj03) June 8, 2022

Whereas wanting again at her 23-year-old profession, from making her worldwide debut as a 16-year-old to handing the reins over to the subsequent technology, particularly teenage opener Shafali Verma, Mithali elaborated on how the teenager left a profound influence on her thoughts.

“I’ve been a giant fan of her sport. I’ve seen that she’s one participant who has the power to win the sport single-handedly for India in opposition to any assault and any crew. She is a kind of gamers that you simply get to see in all probability as soon as in a technology.

“Once I noticed Shafali in a home match when she performed in opposition to Indian Railways, she scored a fifty however I might see a glimpse of a participant who might change the whole match simply along with her innings.

“And when she performed for Velocity within the first version of the Challenger Trophy (girls’s T20 Problem 2019), she performed for my crew and I noticed that she has the power and the uncooked energy that you simply hardly ever get to see at that age to clear the boundary and hit a six at will.”

In her 23-year lengthy profession, Mithali Raj made and broke quite a few information 

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— ICC (@ICC) June 8, 2022

Life after retirement hasn’t stopped being hectic for Mithali, who had a Hindi language biopic made on her life titled “Shabaash Mithu”. Actor Taapsee Pannu portrays her within the biopic, which had a cinematic launch earlier this month.

“I assumed it (retirement) would decelerate my life-style, within the sense that I haven’t got to plan my day, week or subsequent sequence. After I introduced my retirement, I used to be down with Covid, and once I recovered from that I bought concerned within the promotional occasions of the film.

“Up to now it’s as hectic because it has been (as a participant), there is not any change to my life-style but. Perhaps when all this stuff die down, I might in all probability really feel the distinction of what it’s post-retirement,” concluded Mithali.