3. India vs South Africa, Women’s World Cup Qualifier 2017

Mithali Raj in this encounter became the second player to score 5,500 ODI runs, after Charlotte Edwards. In this match where the run rate was sluggish in the beginning, Mithali Raj promoted herself to No.3.

A 96 run second-wicket stand between Mithali Raj and Mona Meshram lead the team to victory as South Africa lost the match by 49 runs. This victory almost confirmed the berth of the Indian team in Women’s World Cup 2017.

In a must-win clash, Mithali kept her nerves to play a captains knock and lead her side from the front. She played a 64-run knock from 85 deliveries including 10 boundaries to put India on track. While Mithali Raj has played many match-winning knocks in her career, but this knock will surely go down as one of the top 5 international knocks.

Later that year, India had a great run in the World Cup making it to the finals. Although they lost to England in the finals, but their superb brought a revolution in women’s cricket in India.