Cricket Bites From Around The Globe

West Indies opener, Kraigg Brathwaite has been named the new and official Test captain, replacing Jason Holder as skipper. He has become the 37 player to take over as the captain of the long format of the game, previously led the team seven times in the absence of Holder. Brathwaite’s first series as a Test Captain will be against Sri Lanka in the Caribbean, starting later this month.

Meanwhile, Sri Lankan cricketer Angelo Mathews will fly home from the tour against West Indies due to a family matter. With the on-going ODI series, the veteran bowler captained the team for the T20I side, in the absence of Dasun Shanaka. To attend personal matters, he won’t be part of the team as Sri Lanka trails the West Indies 1-0 in the ongoing three-match ODI series.

Finally, Mithali Raj has become the first Indian woman cricketer to score 10,000 international runs. Congratulations!

The captain of the Indian women’s team, she set this record by hitting a smacking four against South Africa to make history as well as becoming the second woman overall to achieve this milestone.

Right behind England’s Charlotte Edwards in overall runs, Mithali has scored 75 fifties and eight centuries in total. Coming to Test cricket, she has scored 663 runs from 10 matches. In T20Is, the skipper has hit 2364 runs in 89 matches and 6974 runs from 212 matches in ODI.