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Pratika Rawal (Pic credit score: BCCI Women)

NEW DELHI: India’s rising batting sensation Pratika Rawal etched her identify within the report books by turning into the fastest batter to attain 500 runs in Women’s One Day Internationals, attaining the milestone in simply eight innings.
With this feat, Rawal has damaged the long-standing report held by England nice Charlotte Edwards, who took 9 innings to attain the identical mark again in 1997.
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Rawal reached the landmark throughout her fluent 78-run knock towards South Africa within the ongoing tri-series in Sri Lanka, a match wherein India posted a commanding 276/6.
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The 24-year-old has now scored 572 runs in ODIs at a outstanding common of 81.71 and a strike price of 92.71, together with 5 fifties and a century.

This report not solely locations her on the high of the ladies’s checklist but additionally makes her the second-fastest throughout males’s and ladies’s ODIs — behind solely South Africa’s Janneman Malan, who reached 500 runs in seven innings.

Fastest to 500 runs in girls’s ODIs

Rawal’s meteoric rise in worldwide cricket consists of three Player of the Match awards and a Player of the Series honour. She is now well-poised to problem the report for the fastest to 1000 ODI runs in girls’s cricket, presently held by Australia’s Lindsay Reeler (23 innings).
With her composure, aggressive strokeplay, and consistency, Pratika Rawal is quick turning into the cornerstone of India’s ODI batting lineup and a expertise to watch on the worldwide stage.