Former Indian captain Mithali Raj, who announced her retirement from professional cricket last month, stated that she can be open to taking part in within the inaugural Girls’s Indian Premier League (IPL).
Chatting with former England participant Isa Guha and New Zealand off-spinner Frankie Mackay within the first episode of ICC’s 100% Cricket podcast, Mithali stated she would like to take part within the WIPL, which is anticipated to be launched in 2023.
“I’m conserving that choice 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 pretty to be a part of the primary version of the ladies’s IPL,” she stated.
Mithali additionally stated that she considered retiring from worldwide cricket a number of instances when she struggled with a knee harm.
“There have been a few instances the place I felt like I wished to take retirement. One is as a result of I used to be combating my knee harm for a protracted, very long time. We got here underneath the BCCI in 2006-07 however my harm was from 2005. I didn’t have a physio or amenities to assist me with my rehab. So on the peak of my profession, I performed with a nasty knee and it drained me mentally and emotionally greater than the bodily ache that I needed to endure. That’s the reason after the 2009 World Cup, I thought of retirement,” the batting legend added.
In a 23-year-long profession, Mithali scored 7,805 ODI runs in 232 matches at a mean of fifty.7. She smashed 2,364 runs in 89 T20Is, in addition to 699 runs in 12 Assessments. She bid farewell to the game as main run-scorer in ODI cricket.
