Mithali Raj Quotes

Mithali Raj

Profession : Cricketer

Birth : December 3, 1982

Cricket is not gender biased. It isn't that men's cricket is different and women's a different one.

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Fitness is getting creative as gym equipment is not available at home. I am making do with the resources I have. I'm being given a schedule I can follow by my trainer. Of course it is not close to the exercises I can do in the gym. But I am trying to do as much as I can to maintain my strength.

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If only a few games are televised and you don't have a follow-up, like no live coverage of the Sri Lanka series after the Australia series, where we did so well, things will not improve.

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Tamil is my mother tongue.

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The more you win, the brand of women's cricket will go higher.

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I am from a south Indian Tamilian family, so all my cousins are into academics and I alone was in sports.

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All the people who were needed to be told about my decision were informed. 2021 World Cup would definitely be my swansong. I am looking forward to preparing for the World Cup.

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When I am playing, I try to keep the genre very easy-going and breezy. I can't be into the book and not be into the profession I am in.

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If you keep winning, people will stay glued to our cricket.

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Well, I think the turning point, in my opinion, has to be 2006 as in that year we came under BCCI. With that a lot of facilities were provided to us, a lot of things changed for good and better.

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A lot of people have a different perspective on this but my personal view is that while things have become more professional with we being centrally contracted, we don't play as regularly as the men do. The number of matches we play is too less as compared to men.

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When I got associated with Australian Diamonds, I started to know more about it, things like certificate of assurance and that they are sourced from a trusted and iconic mine... If you are spending so much, you should know from where the diamond is coming.

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Cricket was never my first choice. I never wanted to be a sportsperson. It just happened. It was destiny.

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As a young kid in the beginning, I myself did not know that there was women's cricket in India or that there is an Indian women's cricket team.

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When we talk about knowledge or tactical plans, if a woman coach has the capability, then she should surely get an opportunity to coach the Indian men's team.

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When we left Mumbai to play in the World Cup there were hardly any journalists to see us off. But when we returned to India on July 25 having made the final, there were close to a hundred journalists at 2.30 in the morning. It was totally new.

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But growing as an India cricketer it was about the blue jersey and the pride we all felt wearing that jersey.

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I have captained India in two World Cup finals. I definitely want to win the World Cup before I retire.

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My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

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Men's cricket sets the bar. We are always trying to reach where they set the standard.

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