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India captain Mithali Raj has created a world record with a crucial half-century, in a must-win match, for her side against South Africa at the Women's World Cup 2022. Mithali, aged 39, played a gritty knock of 68 off 84 balls to become the oldest Indian batter to score a fifty in World Cups.

India has received a massive boost to their net run rate winning against Bangladesh by a significant margin of 110 runs and it also strengthens their chances to enter the semi-finals. Yastika Bhatia notched up 50 runs playing a crucial role with the bat and Sneh Rana picked four scalps.

India Women started their World Cup campaign very well with a victory recovering from their middle-order collapse batting first against Pakistan. India won the game by 107 runs in which Sneh Rana and Pooja Vastrakar played a key role taking four wickets from 34 runs during his spell of 10 overs.

Vellaswamy Vanitha, who had represented India in six women’s ODIs and 16 T20Is from 2014 to 2016, has announced retirement from all forms of cricket at the age of 31. Vanitha has made her announcement via Twitter and thanked India teammates Jhulan Goswami and Mithali Raj for their constant support.