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    Home » Blog » Cricket » Mithali Raj gets awarded with the honored Khel Ratna Award

    Mithali Raj gets awarded with the honored Khel Ratna Award

    By Naman SaxenaUpdated:01/02/2022

    Indian Right-handed cricket Test and ODI captain Mithali Raj added yet added jewel to her crown on Saturday. She became the first woman cricketer to be awarded with the honored Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.

    The Khel Ratna award is the greatest sporting honor in the country awarded on players. It is a mark of identification towards consistent achievements displayed by them in their field over the course of the past 4 years.

    The Award ceremony took place in Rashtrapati Bhawan on Saturday where President Ram Nath Kovind the award to a entire host of sports stars. The list involved Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra, wrestler Ravi Kumar, para shooter Avani Lekhara, football skipper Sunil Chhetri and Mithali among twelve others.

    Here is the video-

    India Test and ODI captain Mithali Raj receives the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, the country's highest sporting honour, from Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India

    Raj becomes the first female cricketer to be conferred with the Khel Ratna Award pic.twitter.com/r34CCDl12c

    — Annesha Ghosh (@ghosh_annesha) November 13, 2021

    Raj joined Sachin Tendulkar (1998), MS Dhoni (2007), Virat Kohli (2018) and Rohit Sharma (2020) to be granted with such an honor.

    She had already been bestowed with the honored Padma Shri in 2015.

    Mithali Raj – the trailblazer of Indian women’s cricket

    Women’s cricket in India has grown by jumps and bounds in the previous 2 decades. Mithali Raj has performed a major role in the revolution kindness of her stellar shows across all formats for Team India.

    Raj made her introduction as a youth back in 1999. She is one of the some cricketers who have described their country for such a several time period of time at the elite level.

    Truly honoured and grateful to receive the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 🙏 pic.twitter.com/79HZOV9Uox

    — Mithali Raj (@M_Raj03) November 13, 2021

    As captain, her best moments came in 2005 as well as then in 2017. She led the Women in Blue to the finals of the fifty-over World Cup then.

    As a batter, Raj has about each record in her kitty. She has secured the most runs in ODI cricket (7391), and has secured the most runs in an innings (by batting place) in women’s Tests (2014).

    Raj is the most hooded women’s player in ODI cricket. She is still the inexperienced performer to score an ODI hundred (Sixteen years and 205 days).

    Mithali Raj becomes the first female cricketer to win the Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.

    Joins the elite club of Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.

    — Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) November 13, 2021

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