Alternative for India to raise the World Cup at dwelling: Mithali Raj | Cricket Information – Occasions of India

Alternative for India to raise the World Cup at dwelling: Mithali Raj | Cricket Information – Occasions of India

NEW DELHI: Former captain of the Indian girls’s cricket staff, Mithali Raj, expressed optimism in regards to the prospects of the Indian males’s cricket staff within the upcoming ICC World Cup, which is scheduled to happen in India later this 12 months. The worldwide cricket extravaganza is about to unfold in October and November, providing the hosts the possibility to safe one other World Cup victory on dwelling soil, having beforehand clinched titles in 1983 and 2011.
Mithali, famend as the very best run-scorer in Girls’s One Day Internationals (WODIs) with a staggering 7,805 runs, spoke in regards to the thrilling alternative that lies forward for the Indian males’s cricket staff.

“As an Indian cricket fan, I’d need India to play within the ultimate. It’s a huge alternative. We’re the host nation and the circumstances are in our favour. In the event that they (staff) do effectively, we are going to get one other alternative to raise the World Cup,” Mithali said throughout her presence on the Girls’s Premier League ultimate in Srinagar.

The Indian girls’s cricket luminary believes that girls’s cricket holds immense potential for development within the area.

“For the previous two to a few years, the BCCI has been making a variety of efforts to advertise the ladies’s recreation and ladies gamers. The WIPL this 12 months has additionally gone effectively and it’s good for the sports activities profile. We hope that many gamers will come up from the state within the subsequent two to a few years,” Mithali mentioned.

Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, lauded the event as a big initiative.
“I watched the match. I’ve mentioned repeatedly that there isn’t any dearth of expertise (within the state). The Jammu and Kashmir Administration is making efforts to assist women progress in each discipline. I’m positive that the following section of improvement in Jammu and Kashmir can be led by girls,” Sinha mentioned.
(With inputs from PTI)