India’s One Day International (ODI) and Test skipper Mithali Raj on Wednesday posted an image of her father Dorai Raj on Twitter, the place he might be seen distributing meals grains to auto drivers. Last 12 months, the main run-getter in girls’s ODI began serving to the needy in these robust COVID-19 occasions underneath her Mithali Raj Initiative. In the absence of the cricketer, who’s presently in Mumbai forward of India’s tour to England, her father is fulfilling these duties. The ace cricketer additionally took a dig at his father for not carrying masks correctly.
Distribution of meals grains and a small quantity for sustenance being given to auto drivers by the Mithali raj initiative, one thing I began final 12 months to do my bit in these COVID occasions . Dad doing the honours in my absence. Only downside is his masks 😷🤦🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/m53O4fpVKq
— Mithali Raj (@M_Raj03) May 26, 2021
Mithali is presently serving two-week strict quarantine in Mumbai forward of Team India’s departure to England for an all-format tour. Both the Indian women and men staff would journey to England on June 2 in chartered flight. While the lads’s staff would spend one other 10 days in quarantine in Southampton, the ladies’s staff would almost definitely keep in Bristol.
India Women staff would begin their UK tour withone-off Test in opposition to England in Bristol, beginning June 16. After the Test match, India and England would face one another in three-match ODI and as many T20I collection.
Mithali would lead the Indian squad in Test in addition to in ODIs collection and Harmanpreet Kaur was named skipper for the T20Is.
Earlier, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has introduced the central contract for the senior girls’s nationwide gamers and Mithali was rewarded with a Grade B contract as she not performs in T20Is. Mithali had introduced her retirement from the shortest format of the sport in 2019.
As per the contract, BCCI would pay Rs 30 lakh to all of the gamers in Grade B from October 2020 to September 2021.
Mithali can be the main run-getter in girls’s ODI with 7,098 runs in her kitty from 214 video games. She has additionally registered seven centuries and 55 fifties within the ODIs.
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