Faded India captain Mithali Raj has been roped in because the mentor and manual for Gujarat Giants within the Women’s Premier League (WPL). The personnel will secure its debut within the inaugural season of the ladies folks’s premier league below the mentorship of Padma Shri Mithali Raj. Adani Sportsline, the sports actions pattern arm of the Adani Community, has appointed Mithali Raj ahead of the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League that will pick up blueprint in March-April 2023.
Over the years, Mithali’s trailblazing achievements and contributions to Indian cricket enjoy no longer handiest earned her varied awards and accolades but enjoy also conducted a key role in bringing ladies folks’s cricket into the limelight, each on national and worldwide platforms.
“The inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League is an unparalleled circulation for ladies folks’s cricket and the involvement of the Adani Community is a big enhance for the sport as neatly,” acknowledged Ms Mithali Raj, ex-Skipper of the Indian Women’s National Cricket Crew.
Adani Sportsline’s is jubilant to enjoy on board Padma Shri and frail Indian captain of the ladies folks’s national #cricket personnel, Mithali Raj as a mentor & manual for the ladies folks’s premier league. We all are taking a peek ahead to scoring some enormous innings with this partnership. @M_Raj03— Pranav Adani (@PranavAdani) January 28, 2023
“Women’s cricket is rising continuously, and the form of impetus will positively reduction younger ladies folks to enjoy in thoughts taking on cricket professionally. I factor in that the high-affect participation of corporates can even lend a hand flee the technique of in the end bringing more glory to India. This stage of impact can assist make stronger the carrying ecosystem and make stronger alternatives for ladies folks athletes.”
“Mithali Raj is a job model for the younger abilities and we are ecstatic to enjoy such an inspirational athlete on board to mentor our ladies folks’s cricket personnel,” acknowledged Mr Pranav Adani, Director of Adani Enterprises.
“While we enjoy now got supported many other ladies folks avid gamers in various sports actions via our ‘Garv Hai’ initiative, here is the precious time the Adani Community has ventured into ladies folks’s cricket, and we are privileged so to promote ladies folks in sports actions via the inaugural Women’s Premier League. We predict about that the presence of worldwide carrying heroes esteem Mithali will entice new abilities no longer appropriate into cricket but additionally into every other sport and transform the expert sports actions ecosystem.”
Acknowledged as one of many greatest female cricketers of all time, Mithali Raj opened her ODI profession with a uncommon accomplishment – a century on debut. Mithali is the best likely speed-scorer in ladies folks’s ODIs and has scored 17 half of-centuries in her T20Is. The extremely acclaimed cricketer captained India within the 2017 Women’s ODI Cricket World Cup, where India executed runners-up. She became also section of the Indian personnel that made it to the semi-finals of the 2018 ICC Women’s World T20, held within the West Indies.
Adani Sportsline also manages groups in Kabaddi, Kho Kho, and men’s cricket, as neatly because the annual Adani Ahmedabad Marathon, an tournament organized in team spirit with the Indian Armed Forces.
