‘It helped flip a web page in Indian girls’s cricket’: Mithali Raj on fifth anniversary of 2017 World Cup remaining | Cricket Information – Instances of India

MUMBAI: One of many most interesting 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 remaining on Saturday.
Mithali, who led India to the long-lasting remaining in opposition to England on the ‘Mecca of Cricket’ Lord’s Cricket Floor, stated that they might 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, “At the present time at Lord’s in 2017 didn’t favour us however I imagine it helped flip a web page in Indian girls’s cricket. It modified the angle towards girls’s cricket in India. The assist our staff acquired 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 match and confronted Australia within the semi-finals. Harmanpreet Kaur’s record-breaking 171*-run knock destroyed the match’s favorite Australians as India certified for the ultimate.
India misplaced the ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2017 remaining in opposition to England by 9 runs. The Mithali Raj-led aspect was in an excellent place to raise its first-ever trophy however Anya Shrubsole‘s six-wicket haul snatched India’s happiness.