WPL 2023: Mithali Raj Appointed as Mentor for Gujarat Giants

Former India captain Mithali Raj has been roped in because the mentor and guide for Gujarat Giants within the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL). The crew will make its debut within the inaugural season of the ladies’s premier league underneath the mentorship of Padma Shri Mithali Raj. Adani Sportsline, the sports activities construction arm of the Adani Staff, has appointed Mithali Raj forward of the inaugural season of the Ladies’s Premier League which can happen in March-April 2023.

Over time, Mithali’s trailblazing achievements and contributions to Indian cricket have no longer best earned her a large number of awards and accolades however have additionally performed a key position in bringing ladies’s cricket into the limelight, each on nationwide and world platforms.

“The inaugural season of the Ladies’s Premier League is an out of this world transfer for girls’s cricket and the involvement of the Adani Staff is an enormous spice up for the game as smartly,” stated Ms Mithali Raj, ex-Skipper of the Indian Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket Staff.

Adani Sportsline’s is jubilant to have on board Padma Shri and previous Indian captain of the ladies’s nationwide #cricket crew, Mithali Raj as a mentor & guide for the ladies’s premier league. All of us are having a look ahead to scoring some nice innings with this partnership. @M_Raj03
— Pranav Adani (@PranavAdani) January 28, 2023

“Ladies’s cricket is rising regularly, and this type of impetus will no doubt inspire younger ladies to believe taking on cricket professionally. I consider that the high-impact participation of corporates will assist hasten the method of sooner or later bringing extra glory to India. This stage of affect can assist beef up the wearing ecosystem and fortify alternatives for girls athletes.”

“Mithali Raj is a job style for the younger era and we’re thrilled to have such an inspirational athlete on board to mentor our ladies’s cricket crew,” stated Mr Pranav Adani, Director of Adani Enterprises.

“Whilst we now have supported many different ladies gamers in several sports activities thru our ‘Garv Hai’ initiative, that is the primary time the Adani Staff has ventured into ladies’s cricket, and we’re privileged so that you could advertise ladies in sports activities throughout the inaugural Ladies’s Premier League. We consider that the presence of world wearing heroes like Mithali will draw in new skill no longer simply into cricket but in addition into each and every different game and grow to be the pro sports activities ecosystem.”

Said as one of the crucial biggest feminine cricketers of all time, Mithali Raj opened her ODI profession with a unprecedented accomplishment – a century on debut. Mithali is the perfect run-scorer in ladies’s ODIs and has scored 17 half-centuries in her T20Is. The extremely acclaimed cricketer captained India within the 2017 Ladies’s ODI Cricket International Cup, the place India completed runners-up. She used to be additionally a part of the Indian crew that made it to the semi-finals of the 2018 ICC Ladies’s International T20, held within the West Indies.

Adani Sportsline additionally manages groups in Kabaddi, Kho Kho, and males’s cricket, in addition to the yearly Adani Ahmedabad Marathon, an match arranged in harmony with the Indian Armed Forces.