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Indian women’s cricket team captain Mithali Raj was in conversation with The New Indian Express interviewer on Twitter at 12 PM on 18th August 2019. Here are some interesting facts revealed during the talk. Question – One subject you didn’t like in school days? Answer – I hated Maths Question – Who are ones you like to chill and talk with after the match? Answers – I talk a lot to the spinners in the team like Ekta Bisht, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav and Deepti Sharma. Question– Favourite dessert? Answers– Ras malai and Pista flavour ice-cream Question– Talents you think you don’t have right now? Answer– Cooking (I don’t know how to make even a cup of tea) and Singing Question– What questions media should stop asking female sportsperson? Answer– Go beyond the chronological number of her age and questions related to settling down and having a family Question– Are the things changing on pay-parity perspective? Answer– Yes, they are changing but complete parity would follow when the people come and see the games because the real revenue is generated from there. Question– Cricket format you love the most? Answer– I love one-day cricket Question– Your biggest strength? Answer– My persistency Questions– Which one of your innings you like the most? Answer– The 91-run innings in 2005 Women’s World Cup semi-finals against New Zealand Question– Your advice to young girls wanting to pursue cricket as their career? Answer– You need to learn to absorb failures that come along succ...

Express News Service You’d be forgiven for scrolling Wikipedia before entering a show of Shabaash Mithu. Mithali Raj—one of India’s fiercest, most accomplished batters—is a name everyone is familiar with, yet not the specifics of her story. A biopic on her life, thus, has the ripe opportunity to fill us in on the details, joining the necessary dots that took a young girl from Secunderabad to 232 ODIs, 89 T20I matches, and six World Cups. It’s the stuff, as they say, of legends. Unfortunately, Shabaash Mithu is not the film for it. If anything, Srijit Mukherji’s film takes the stuff out of the legend, leaving us with a vague, one-dimensional hero. It treats Mithali as the standalone messiah of women’s cricket in India. What she signifies ultimately supersedes who or what she really is. Her biggest glories—youngest ODI centurion (recently beaten by Ireland’s Amy Hunter), highest run-scorer in women’s cricket, its longest captain—are bundled into montages that whizz on by, with minimal impact. Not a line or anecdote or fascinating trivia sticks. Her conflicts and failures exert no force. As evinced by its title, with its emphatic ‘shabaash (well done)’, this is a film all too eager to praise. The childhood portions are promising. Mithali, just eight, subdues a group of boys with her equally pint-sized best friend Noorie. The girls—prodigiously dubbed the ‘Sachin and Kambli’ of this story—get spotted by local trainer Sampath (Vijay Raaz), who enrolls them in his academy. When ...