“It was an honour to have led the team for so many years. It definitely shaped me as a person & hopefully helped shape Indian Women’s Cricket as well,” she mentioned in a press release.

Mithali retires because the main run getter in ladies’s ODIs. She represented India 232 matches, scoring 7805 runs at a median of fifty.68.

In the most recent ICC Women’s ODI batting rankings, launched on Tuesday, Mithali continued to carry on to her seventh place.

Meanwhile, Bollywood star Taapsee Pannu has introduced that her upcoming movie “Shabaash Mithu”, a biopic on Mithali Raj, will make its debut in theatres on July 15.

Directed by filmmaker Srijit Mukherji and written by Priya Aven, the movie is a coming-of-age story of girls’s cricket in India as witnessed by essentially the most profitable lady cricketer. It will chronicle the highs and lows, setbacks and moments of euphoria of Raj’s life.

Pannu, who essays the function of Raj, shared the brand new launch date of the film in a put up on Twitter.

“There is nothing more powerful than a girl with a dream and a plan to realise it! This is a story of one such girl who chased her dream with a bat in this ‘Gentleman’s Game’ #ShabaashMithu The Unheard Story Of Women In Blue will be in cinemas on 15th July 2022,” the 34-year-old actor wrote on Twitter.

The cricketer has a profession spanning 23 years throughout which she smashed seven consecutive 50s in one-day worldwide matches and led India in 4 World Cups.

“Shabaash Mithu” marks the primary theatrical launch of Pannu put up her 2020 film “Thappad”.

During the pandemic, the actor featured in 4 motion pictures, “Haseen Dilruba”, “Annabelle Sethupathi”, “Rashmi Rocket” and “Looop Lapeta”, which had been all launched on varied streaming platforms.

Produced by Viacom18 Studios, “Shabaash Mithu” additionally options seasoned actor Vijay Raaz.