“Requires courage when you are treated unfairly”: Mithali Raj opens up on feud with Ramesh Powar

“Requires courage when you are treated unfairly”: Mithali Raj opens up on feud with Ramesh Powar

Ramesh Powar and Mithali Raj

Former India captain Mithali Raj, who recently called it quits to a 23-year long illustrious career, was left-out during the semi-final of the T20WC against England in the West Indies by the then head coach Ramesh Powar. She revealed that a lot of courage is required when someone is treated unfairly. Powar’s call eventually led his removal at the time.

“When you find yourself in the middle of chaos, you can’t really think straight because you are feeling all sorts of emotions, even if you want to internalise and think from your brain and not from your heart.”

“It would still be like you are hurting, so you will probably never have clarity if you are in chaos. I had to be in the best possible space in my mind to go out there and give my best. So, for me to be in that good mental space, I had to overcome or get through that moment of hurt, anger, frustration, irritation and eventually did, because I realised my purpose was not to be involved in that moment for long.”

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“You don’t start from hundred”- Mithali Raj

Mithali Raj
Mithali Raj

Mithali Raj is also two-time World Cup runner-up and believes that the moment taught her a life lesson. Also BCCI had talked to Powar, Raj and the T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur.

“In cricket, when you score a hundred, the next day you again have to start from the beginning, you don’t start from hundred. Obviously, that phase did hurt me a little bit but I overcame and that is why I was able to give the performance I did in the last year and half. I was able to overcome those emotions.”

“Sometimes, it is okay to be quiet. It also requires a lot of courage when you are treated unfairly… everybody knows only one side of the story and when you feel that way it is fine because, at the end of the day, I am someone who is goal-oriented,” Raj concluded.

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