Mithali Raj becomes 2nd Women batter to score 10000 international runs

Mithali Raj becomes the second women batter and first Indian women batter to score 10,000 international cricket runs including all formats

Indian ODI captain Mithali joins England’s Charlette Edwards, who scored 10,000 runs in 2016.

She achieved this milestone during ongoing series against South African Women, where she scored 36 runs off 50 balls with five boundaries

Mithali played a total of 311 matches and scored 10,001 in all International cricket formats and currently the highest run-scorer in the world

She made her ODI debut in 1999 against Ireland and she played a total of 212 ODI matches and scored 6974 runs for Indian Women cricket yet

Mithali, who retired from T20I in 2019, also had an outstanding performance in the shortest format. she scored 2,364 runs in 89 matches with an average of 37.52 and she also Played 10 test games and accumulated 663 runs

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Most Inernational Runs in Women cricket:

Rank	Players	Matches	Runs	50/100
1	Charlotte Edwards	309	10273	67/13
2	Mithali Raj	311	10001	75/8
3	Suzie Bates	247	7849	48/11
4	Stafanie Taylor	234	7816	57/5
5	Meg Lanning	194	6900	29/16

Heartiest congratulations Mithali on completing 10,000 runs in International Cricket. Terrific achievement…Keep going strong- said, Sachin Tendulkar on his Twitter

Mithali Raj batting stats

Format	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	BF	SR	100s	50s
Test	10	16	3	663	214	51.0	1461	407	45.4	1	4
ODI	211	190	53	6938	125*	50.6	10322	143	–	7	54
T20I	89	84	21	2364	97*	37.5	2426	69	–	0	17