One-Day Internationals

167 Matches

5,407 runs

Average 49.60

Centuries 5

Half-centuries 40

Test Matches

10 matches

663 runs

Average 51.00

Centuries 1

Half-centuries 4

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This is one India-Pakistan match that passed without a replay of the frisson of enmity. In fact, very few people took note of it. India beat its neighbour in the final of the T20 Asia Cup women’s cricket tournament in Bangkok—the team’s sixth consecutive lifting of the cup. The star of the tournament was India’s batswoman extraordinaire, Mithali Raj. In the tournament, she was an exemplar of ‘old-school’, renaissance versatil­ity—she was the top scorer, excelled as a fielder, and gave invaluable advice to the new captain. The backbone of Ind­ian batting line-up, she has over the...