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Veteran Indian women’s cricketer and ODI captain Mithali Raj believes more needs to be done in order for the game to grow and give the world more success stories like that of Thailand.
Thailand will be playing their maiden ICC event when they turn out in the ICC Women’s World T20 in Australia next year and Raj wants to see more such success stories in the future.
“I think the top teams have been doing well, whether it is Australia, England, New Zealand, India or South Africa,” Raj told ICC.
“But we need to have more teams participating in the ICC events. Like this year, Thailand is going to play their first ICC event.
“So teams like that need to be encouraged. We need to give them more exposure. That is something we need to do more to spread women’s cricket around the world.
“People from countries other than the cricket-loving ones should be able to come forward and accept the sport as a profession. That is something we need to work on.”
Raj, who retired from T20I cricket recently and was a key figure in India’s recent rise to the upper echelons of the women’s game, says her favourite moment in the format was a 2-1 series win against Australia in 2016.
Veteran Indian women’s cricketer and ODI captain Mithali Raj believes more needs to be done in order for the game to grow and give the world more success stories like that of Thailand.
Thailand will be playing their maiden ICC event when they turn out in the ICC Women’s World T20 in Australia next year and Raj wants to see more such success stories in the future.
“I think the top teams have been doing well, whether it is Australia, England, New Zealand, India or South Africa,” Raj told ICC.
“But we need to have more teams participating in the ICC events. Like this year, Thailand is going to play their first ICC event.
“So teams like that need to be encouraged. We need to give them more exposure. That is something we need to do more to spread women’s cricket around the world.
“People from countries other than the cricket-loving ones should be able to come forward and accept the sport as a profession. That is something we need to work on.”
Raj, who retired from T20I cricket recently and was a key figure in India’s recent rise to the upper echelons of the women’s game, says her favourite moment in the format was a 2-1 series win against Australia in 2016.
