Who is Pratika Rawal? Who created a sensation in Indian cricket by scoring more than 400 runs in the first 6 ODIs.

Delhi: No one will be wrong if we call the new opener, Pratika Raval the 'Find of the Season' for the Indian women's team from now on. Although Pratika, who played only 6 matches till the third ODI against Ireland on 15 January 2025 in Rajkot, has written many records in her name, but some of these are special records. See:

• -His first ODI century and 154 runs on 129 balls in the ODI on 15 January. Only two Indian batsmen, Deepti Sharma (188) and Harmanpreet (171*) have a score higher than this in ODIs.
• -In this match, 233 runs were added for the first wicket with Mandhana, which is the third highest partnership for India in ODIs.
• -In the 6 innings in which both of them were openers, this was the fourth 100-run partnership.
• -4 scores of 50+ in 6 ODIs.
• -After completing his 100, he scored 54 runs in the next 29 balls.
• -Current record: 444 runs in ODIs at an average of 74 and this is the most runs by anyone in the first 6 innings (previous record: Charlotte Edwards 434). Only one male cricketer has more runs in his name than this.

Who is Pratika Rawal?, who has not only made Shefali's absence not felt in the team, but has also made her return very difficult.

Born on 1 September 2000 in Delhi and it can be said that cricket is in his veins. Father Pradeep Rawal is a BCCI Certified Level-II umpire and is associated with DDCA. The journey of cricket started from the big and famous modern school of Delhi where Pratika studied (92.5% marks in CBSE board). After that he graduated in Psychology from Jesus and Mary College.

However, cricket was honed by coach Shravan Kumar at Rohtak Road Gymkhana Cricket Academy and along with studies, she played for Delhi from 2021 and is now in women's cricket powerhouse Railways. Well, cricket is not the only game that Pratika played, she also played basketball. She was in the team of her first school, Bal Bharti, which won gold in the 64th School National Games (2019) in Delhi. However, when the question came to choose a sport, I chose cricket.

In the same season, he made his international debut against West Indies with a score of 40 and a valuable partnership of 110 runs and also took one wicket from offbreak bowling. Against Ireland the bat continued to bat even more and runs were scored. Experts are counting Pratika as one of the best cricket talents of India and she is only 24 years old and her cricket journey has just started. She is a contender to be the next big name in Indian cricket, but if we leave the answer to this question for the future, it will be better for her, but it is almost certain that we will keep hearing about Pratika Raval in future too.

You will be surprised to know that she gives the credit of her success in cricket to her psychology studies along with better training and hard work and she says that she understands what is going on in the bowler's mind and What will be his next move? She advocates such education for everyone in cricket. Pratika herself is eyeing an even bigger record after the record of becoming the first batsman (male or female) to score 400+ runs after the first 6 ODIs (previous record: 392 runs by Netherlands' Tom Cooper). Now it depends on Team India how they use this talent in the long run?

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