Skip to content

Mithali Raj

(1982) Cricketer

77 quotes in 227 categories

Mithali Raj describes the heavy pressure of playing a World Cup match at home, where expectations double. She speaks about feeling singled out for standing up for herself, even though she knows her place as a top T20 player. She also talks about leading her team and hoping women's cricket will rise.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Mithali Raj is a cricketer.

Quick Facts About Mithali Raj

Born: December 3, 1982
Profession: Cricketer

About Mithali Raj

Indian women's cricketer... | Mithali Raj is an Indian former cricketer who captained the national team from 2004 to 2022. She is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket, and ESPN ranked her as one of the greatest female cricketers of all time. Raj has received several national and international awards, including

Quotes by Mithali Raj

I am very laidback and I take it as it comes.

Image

I would love to mentor youngsters.

Love

Image

Tamil is my mother tongue.

Bollywood

Image

As a batter, I would want to see that the best bowler is in my side so I don't have to face…

Image

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

Cup finals

Image

Initially, I was into dance and learnt Bharatnatyam for eight years. I appeared on various TV shows.

Dance

Image

There will always be people who will criticise you without knowing the facts.

Image

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

Cricket

Image

My dad and some of them felt I should be playing on home soil and retire in front of the home crowd.

Image

I'm not saying the fact that I am the best T20 player. No! I know where I stand.

Image

All of us follow men's cricket because we want at some point that women's cricket would be up there.

Cricket

Image

I feel that when you are chasing 270 there's always going to be pressure but you need the opening pair to give…

Image

You can't just give up because you lose one game. India has always had the problem that when faced with the crunch…

Image

The World Cup, as an event, carries a lot of pressure, irrespective of the number of caps you have earned, and the…

Football

Image

All the people who were needed to be told about my decision were informed. 2021 World Cup would definitely be my swansong.…

Decision

Image

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

Choice

Image

I love sleeping and to inculcate the habit of early rising, my dad forced me to take up a sport. That was…

Cricket

Image

It's not just about women's cricket, but everywhere, every athlete's momentum has been broken because of Covid-19.

Image

Sometimes, I sketch, but not every day. I sketch random things, whatever I can get my mind into. I'm not a professional,…

Artist

Image

When I got associated with Australian Diamonds, I started to know more about it, things like certificate of assurance and that they…

Australian

Image

But, ultimately, it is up to the captain to decide whether she wants to accept a suggestion or not. But, as a…

Image

The Qualifier is a different standard to what we will face in the World Cup in England. The conditions will be different,…

Image

From making my international debut as a 16-year-old to now 37, it has been a good 21 years of my prime life…

Image

Fitness is getting creative as gym equipment is not available at home. I am making do with the resources I have. I'm…

Exercise

Image

A lot of people have a different perspective on this but my personal view is that while things have become more professional…

Different perspective

Image

When you are on the field as a captain, the mind is always working. You cannot relax at any point of time.…

Image

When I made my debut I had a lot of seniors in the side, then players of my own age group, then…

Image

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

Cricket

Image

Honestly, during the 2018 World Cup itself, I was saying T20 World Cup was going to be my last.

Cricket

Image

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

Image

I speak Tamil well and I am proud to be living as a Tamil. but above it all, I am very proud…

Bollywood

Image

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

Cricket

Image

The biggest challenge I faced when I started playing in the 90s was my immediate family members were not very keen that…

Alone

Image

As a young kid in the beginning, I myself did not know that there was women's cricket in India or that there…

Beginning

Image

With central contracts, you are very well looked after by the board. You do not have to be bothered about anything else.…

Image

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

Image

Unless there is branding, players will not get adequate payment. Why do we want matches to be televised? Why do we want…

Image

India is still searching for its first World Cup title. Australia and England have shown they are able to bounce back from…

Image

I have always believed that against smaller teams is when you can give others a chance to get some runs and gain…

Image

But as a player, you feel sad that at this level you are being singled out for the fact that I stood…

Image

Mithali Raj by topic

Cricket (29) World cup (14) World (12) Women (11)