“Do you ask the same question to a male cricketer?”
Mithali Raj has been at the helm of the women's cricket team for years and is the second-highest run scorer in the world at the moment.
She has also been conferred with a Padma Shri and is an Arjuna awardee.
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While at a press conference in England before the Women's World Cup starting today, she was asked by a reporter who her favourite male cricketer is.
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And she shut that shit down.
She added, "I have always been asked who's your favourite cricketer but you should ask them who their favourite female cricketer is."
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She went on to tell the reporters that men's cricket still seems to be a standard to reach to...
"All of us follow men's cricket because we want at some point that women's cricket would be up there," she admitted.
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