Pratika Rawal: Created a stir as soon as she came to Team India, scored 400 runs

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Team India's female player Pratika Rawal recently made her international debut. She created a stir as soon as she stepped into the Indian team. She is continuously scoring runs. After West Indies, she continued her excellent form. After scoring two consecutive fifties against Ireland, she has now scored a century. This is the first century of her career, which she completed in 100 balls. Pratika took only 6 innings for the first century of her career. She played her first international match against West Indies on 22 December 2024.

Scored 400 runs in 6 matches

Pratika Rawal has played only 6 ODIs for India so far. In all of these, she opened with Smriti Mandhana, in which there were 2 century partnerships. In one, there was a partnership of 150 runs and in one double century. In the last 6 matches with Mandhana, Pratika Rawal has made partnerships of 110, 110, 22, 70, 156 and 233 runs. During this time, she herself has scored 444 runs at an average of more than 60, which includes 3 half-centuries and 1 century. In the current series against Ireland, she has scored 310 runs.

Pratika is the umpire's daughter

Pratika Rawal has studied from CBSE board, in which she scored 92 percent marks. She is a graduate from Delhi University. Her father Pradeep Rawal is a Level 2 umpire recognized by BCCI. Pratika, who won a gold medal in basketball during her school days, came to know about her true cricketing abilities during her college days. She started playing cricket at the age of 10, after which during her college days, she realized that she has a special talent for this game and decided to work hard to become a professional cricketer.

In her first domestic season, Pratika Rawal scored 247 runs at an average of 49.50. Apart from this, in 2021, she played a memorable innings for Delhi, in which she scored 161 runs off 155 balls against Assam in Dehradun. This innings caught everyone's attention. In the 2022-23 season, Pratika Rawal scored 552 runs in 14 matches, including five half-centuries. After this, the next year she scored 411 runs in 7 innings, which included two centuries and two half-centuries.