India’s marketing campaign throughout the 2018 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in West Indies was hit by a giant controversy when reviews emerged of Mithali Raj and group coach Ramesh Powar will not be seeing eye to eye. The fissures emerged when Mithali, a senior batter, was dropped from India’s match opener with Powar later citing her sluggish strike-rate as the rationale behind his name.
Mithali was alternated with Taniya Bhatia in India’s enjoying XI and the seasoned campaigner responded with two half-centuries. Despite that, she was once more dropped from the eleven for the semi-final conflict towards England which India misplaced.
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An irked Mithali shot a letter to the BCCI accusing Ramesh Powar of discrimination. Eventually, upon returning to India, separate conferences have been held involving T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur, Mithali, Powar and BCCI officers.
Following that, Powar’s contract wasn’t renewed.
Vinod Rai, who headed the Committee of Administrators (CoA) that ran Indian cricket for nearly three years, in his guide Not Just a Nightwatchman – My Innings within the BCCI, writes that Mithali claimed to have been stored at the hours of darkness concerning the decision to drop her from the all-important semifinal.
“Mithali had expressed her deep anguish at how she had been handled by the coach. She felt that greater than her being benched within the semi-final sport, it was the best way through which she was being handled by the coach that distressed her,” Rai was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
“Harmanpreet, as the team captain, was clear that the decision had been collectively taken to play the winning combination. In this decision, the team selector and coach had been involved. She, of course, was not aware of when this news was conveyed to Mithali,” he wrote.
Mithali although felt her exclusion was unfair and the style through which she got here to know about it was humiliating.
“On the opposite hand, Mithali felt that in addition to her exclusion not being justified, the style through which it was conveyed to her had been most humiliating. She stated that she had been stored at the hours of darkness concerning the determination and it was simply earlier than the 2 captains went for the toss that the coach had knowledgeable her,” Rai wrote.
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