Raj, 39, wrote, “I feel now is the perfect time to call 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.”
Though she did not give any concrete indicators on what her future plans have been, she did say that she would keep linked with the sport. “Each time I stepped on the field, I gave my very best with the intent to help India win. I will always cherish the opportunity given to me to represent the tricolour,” she wrote. “It was an honour to have led the team for so many years. It definitely shaped me as a person & hopefully helped shape Indian Women’s Cricket as well.
“This journey might have ended however one other one beckons as I’d love to remain concerned within the sport I really like and contribute to the expansion of Women’s Cricket in India and world over.”
Raj, India’s captain, scored 68 in 84 balls in that game, her 64th half-century in the format, in which she compiled 7805 runs, including seven centuries, at an average of 50.68. In Tests, she aggregated 699 runs at an average of 43.68 with a century and four half-centuries. And in T20Is, where her appearances had been curtailed since the emergence of the “proficient younger gamers” she referred to in her retirement message, Raj scored 2364 runs at an average of 37.52 with 17 half-centuries and a high score of 97*.
Her general tally of 10,868 runs made her the main run-scorer in girls’s international cricket, and no batter has scored greater than her 7805 in girls’s ODIs. She was additionally the primary to attain seven fifties in a row in girls’s ODIs, the place her tally of 64 is the very best.