All you want to know about Mithali Raj's Records

Mithali Raj made cricketing history last week.
Rajneesh Gupta tells us why.

Mithali Raj

IMAGE: Mithali Raj, cricket legend.

Mithali Raj, the Indian women team's cricket captain, became the leading run-scorer in women's One-day Internationals during her innings of 69 against Australia in the ICC Women's ODI World Cup, surpassing England's Charlotte Edwards.

A glimpse of Mithali's awe-inspiring ODI career:

Career highlights

Made her ODI debut at the age of 16 years, 205 days vs Ireland in 1999.
Scored 114* on ODI debut -- the highest score by an Indian on debut and second highest by any player in this format at that time.
Mithali at 16 years, 205 days is still the youngest to score a hundred in women's ODIs.
Played 74 consecutive innings between 2000 and 2007 without scoring a duck -- the longest streak for any player at that time (since broken by Australia's Karen Rolton).
Played 109 consecutive matches between 2004 and 2013 -- the longest streak for any player in women's ODIs.
Has a career span of over 18 years -- the longest for an Indian player in this format.
Scored seven fifties on the trot this year -- the most any player has ever scored in consecutive innings in this format.
Has batted at every position from number 1 to 9 in women's ODIs.
Led India for the first time in 2004 vs the West Indies at the age of 21 years, 94 days to become the youngest captain for India in this format.
Led India in 106 ODIs winning 65 and losing 38 with three no result games (a win percentage of 61.32)
Has won 18 Woman of the Match awards -- the second most in women's ODIs after the West Indies' Stafanie Taylor (20). Among the Indians no one else has won more than six!

Performance against each opponent

	Matches	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s
England	48	1,605	98	48.63	0	16
Sri Lanka	25	926	108*	154.33	2	7
Australia	30	896	89	34.46	0	7
New Zealand	26	817	91*	38.90	0	5
West Indies	18	616	109*	51.33	1	3
South Africa	14	447	69*	44.70	0	6
Ireland	10	335	114*	111.66	1	2
Pakistan	10	262	103*	52.40	1	1
Bangladesh	1	73	73*	-	0	1
The Netherlands	1	51	51	51.00	0	1

Performance in each country

	Matches	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s
in India	71	2,323	109*	55.30	3	15
in England	35	1,187	114*	43.96	1	10
in Australia	18	580	89	38.66	0	5
in New Zealand	15	541	98	41.61	0	4
in Sri Lanka	15	521	73*	104.20	0	6
in South Africa	17	469	91*	58.62	0	6
in Pakistan	5	165	108*	165.00	1	0
in Ireland	4	157	66	52.33	0	2
in West Indies	3	85	57	28.33	0	1

Performance at home and away

	Matches	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s
Home	71	2,323	109*	55.30	3	15
Away	69	2,248	94*	44.07	0	22
at Neutral venues	43	1,457	114*	60.70	2	12

Performance in each calendar year

Year	Matches	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s
1999	3	118	114*	59.00	1	0
2000	3	152	69*	76.00	0	2
2002	15	323	61	29.36	0	1
2003	12	497	98	45.18	0	3
2004	15	539	88	77.00	0	5
2005	15	300	91*	42.85	0	3
2006	23	684	108*	45.60	1	5
2007	7	163	55	27.16	0	1
2008	15	526	74	52.60	0	6
2009	7	247	75*	61.75	0	2
2010	5	287	91*	143.50	0	4
2011	9	240	109*	30.00	1	0
2012	12	414	94*	51.75	0	4
2013	4	132	103*	66.00	1	0
2014	8	266	104*	53.20	1	0
2015	5	141	81*	47.00	0	1
2016	9	378	89	63.00	0	3
2017	16	621	73*	77.62	0	9

Performance as a player and a captain

	Matches	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s
as a player	77	2,486	114*	45.20	2	17
as Captain	106	3,542	108*	57.12	3	32

Batting first and second

	Innings	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s
1st match innings	90	3,295	114*	43.93	4	28
2nd match innings	74	2,733	103*	65.07	1	21

Performance in won and lost matches

	Matches	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s
Won match	105	3,786	114*	75.72	5	30
Lost match	74	2,242	98	33.46	0	19
No result	4	-	-	-	-	-

Performance at each batting position

	Matches	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s
Opener	6	305	114*	101.66	2	0
3rd position	81	3,311	109*	54.27	3	30
4th position	67	2,207	91*	45.97	0	18
5th position	6	181	53*	45.25	0	1
6th position	1	3	3*	-	0	0
8th position	2	9	8	9.00	0	0
9th position	1	12	12*	-	0	0

Leading run-scorers in Women's ODIs

	Matches	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s
Mithali Raj	183	6,028	114*	51.52	5	49
Charlotte Edwards (England)	191	5,992	173*	38.16	9	46
Belinda Clark (Australia)	118	4,844	229*	47.49	5	30
Karen Rolton (Australia)	141	4,814	154*	48.14	8	33
Claire Taylor (England)	126	4,101	156*	40.20	8	23
Debbie Hockley (New Zealand)	118	4,064	117	41.89	4	34
Stafanie Taylor (West Indies)	104	3,911	171	43.45	5	27
Suzie Bates (New Zealand)	103	3,733	168	42.90	8	23
Sarah Taylor (England)	107	3,558	147	40.89	6	17
Alex Blackwell (Austalia)	139	3,257	114	35.02	3	23
Amy Satterthwaite (New Zealand)	100	3,142	137*	38.79	6	16

Leading run-scorers for India in women's ODIs

	Matches	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s
Mithali Raj	183	6,028	114*	51.52	5	49
Anjum Chopra	127	2,856	100	31.38	1	18
Jaya Sharma	77	2,091	138*	30.75	2	14
Harmanpreet Kaur	75	1,743	107*	32.88	2	8
Anju Jain	65	1,729	90	29.81	0	12
Punam Raut	50	1,463	109*	32.51	2	9
Hemlata Kala	78	1,023	65	20.87	0	3