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Sandhya Agarwal

Mithali Raj tops ICC ranking, but the Indian media has little interest in women’s cricket

By Sudatta Mukherjee 

 

On February 28, 2012, when Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 133 to guide India to a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in a do-or-die match, the Indian media went on an overdrive in burying him with adjectives. But when another Indian cricketer got to the top of the ICC ODI rankings for batsmen, there was hardly a ripple in the media. Why? The answer is simple: The player in question is Mithali Raj and the ICC rankings are for women’s cricket.

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Spare a thought for Mithali, Jhulan & other world class Indian women cricketers

India, too, has produced world class women’s cricketers over the years like Shanta Rangaswamy, Diana Eduljee, Sandhya Agarwal, Mithali Raj and Jhulan Joswami, to name just a few. But in a male-dominated nation, these women and the game their brand of cricket has not got its rightful due.

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