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NEW DELHI, Jun 8 () – Indian women’s team captain Mithali Raj retired from international cricket on Wednesday after a 23-year career during which she established herself as the country’s greatest female batsman.

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“Like every journey, this too must come and end,” the 39-year-old said in a statement on social media.

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Raj made her India debut as a 16-year-old in 1996 in a one-day match against Ireland and scored 68 against South Africa in a Women’s World Cup match in Christchurch in March in what proved to be her last international match.

Her tally of 7805 runs, including seven hundreds, from 232 matches made her the top scorer in women’s ODIs.

He also played 12 test matches scoring 699 runs including a career best 214 against England at Taunton in 2002.

“… the last 23 years have been the most fulfilling, challenging and exciting years of my life,” said Raj, who led India to the World Cup finals in 2005 and 2017.

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“I feel now is the perfect time to call the curtains on my playing career as the team is in the capable hands of some very talented young players and the future of Indian cricket is bright”.

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NEW DELHI: In a landmark decision, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced equal match pay for contracted female and male center players in a bid to promote gender equality in the country’s most popular sport.

“We are implementing a pay equity policy for our contracted BCCI women,” BCCI general secretary Jay Shah wrote on Twitter. BCCI president Roger Binny said the decision was an important step forward for women’s cricket and the game in general.

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Equal playing fee for male and female cricketers: BCCI In a historic move aimed at ensuring gender pay parity in Indian cricket for good, the BCCI has introduced equal pay for male and female cricketers with Indian contracts, BCCI secretary Jay Shah announced in a tweet. on Thursday. . Indian male cricketers, of course, will still earn more in terms of the game

* Under the newly introduced system, Indian women cricketers will now earn Rs 15 lakh per Test, Rs 6 lakh per ODI, and Rs 3 lakh per T20I, the same as their male counterparts.

* Earlier, women players earned Rs 1 lakh each for ODIs and T20Is while the match fee for Test matches was Rs 4 lakh.

* This means players will see a 275% increase in Test fees, a 200% increase in T20 fees and a whopping 500% increase in ODI fees.

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* India is now only the second country in world cricket after New Zealand to introduce pay parity for male and female contract cricketers.

* Under their current annual contracts, women cricketers in the top category earn Rs 50 lakh (Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Poonam Yadav), while Class B and Class C players get Rs 30 lakh and Rs 10 lakh respectively.

* On the other hand, men in Grade A+ category (Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah) are paid Rs 7 crore. Those in Class A, B and C get Rs 5 crore, Rs 3 crore and Rs 1 crore respectively.

* This means that the lowest ranked male cricketers still earn twice as much as the highest ranked female cricketers.

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* The structure of the high contract game fee that players earn for the number of games they play. Also, since male cricketers play more international matches compared to their female counterparts, they will obviously make more money from match fees as well.

* The Indian women’s team is ranked fourth in both the ODI and T20I rankings and defeated Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup final this month to clinch its seventh title.

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Sometimes praising the achievements of the fight in the cause of losing is dangerous, because it hides many flaws in it. Visible struggle is the nature of the game to be won. And Harmanpreet Kaur shows that fight, hunger and last push. As the Indian women’s cricket team battled the dew, a poor South African line-up and injury problems, they lost what lay ahead, a place in the semi-finals of the World Cup.

When the Protea fire burned brightly at Hagley Oval with Mignon du Preez and Sune Luus sewing a partnership, the required run rate hovered around the seven-run mark and all they needed was to run each ball. With three off-spinners turning the ball on the right two-handers, Mithali Raj was assigned to all inside on the leg side.

From the beginning of 40 on, India gave away singles and doubles on the side with the same energy as educational institutes gave away sweets in Independence Day celebrations. More than 30 runs were scored in one and two in that period in that area as the South African batsmen hardly felt the pressure of the scoreboard.

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Mastery is not simple. It never was. There is always the fear of not doing enough. But in Mithali’s condition, she has to make a decision whether she needs protection behind square on the leg side or in front of it. He can have backward square leg or short mid-wicket inside the circle. He wants both of those fielders on the ropes and unfortunately they play on the hand side chasing.

But the Indian campaign cannot be classified in this last phase. It was a tournament where they had a championship phase, but at other times they looked mediocre as a unit.

Shefali Verma had two ducks to start with but Smriti Mandhana got out of the blocks with lazy elegance. Even after winning their first pair of games, the stumble above was magnified against the hosts in the third game as India lost to New Zealand. Mandhana and Kaur took care of the West Indies with tons that lifted India to a massive first innings total. The top order went down once again in the game, this time against England making mistakes in their second defeat of the tournament.

The loss against Australia will probably bother them the most. As the two openers failed, it was up to Yastika Bhatia and Raj to rebuild, which they did, but at a pace that struck the work. Blitzkrieg Kaur finally put up a competitive total but it wasn’t enough against an Australian team that always saves its best for the World Cup.

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The only match where three of India’s top five batsmen scored more than the strike rate for hundreds was against the West Indies. It was also the only occasion they posted more than 300. In all other meetings, most Raj and everyone except Verma and Kaur canceled slowly. After dropping Jemimah Rodriguez from the side there is a serious vacuum in terms of fast scoring batters in the team. Unfortunately, that empty space remained throughout this expedition.

Captain Raj dropped a sitter against the White Ferns. Then they fouled up again and again in that game. It is clear that fielding is India’s weakest link in this World Cup. It hit again against South Africa in a match where they could not afford to be sloppy. Fumbles and dropped catches left their chances as the Proteas won the game in the last over.

For someone like Verma whose skill level is world-class, he comes from a structure where fielding has long taken a back seat. Not only Verma, there are hundreds of girls playing cricket in India in the most remote districts where they are only taught how to bat and bowl. Modern cricket prioritizes fielding more than any other skill set and it is time coaches and mentors working at the grassroots level take note of the same.

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