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Pratika Rawal posted the fourth highest score for her maiden ODI hundred.
Pratika Rawal celebrates her maiden ODI hundred (X/BCCI)
Pratika Rawal smashed 154 runs from 129 deliveries with the help of 20 boundaries and one six as she recorded her maiden ODI century during the third and final one-day international between India and Ireland at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot on Wednesday.
The 24-year-old hence posted the fourth-highest score for her maiden ODI hundred.
She had shined in her second international, scoring 76 from 86 balls and also picked up 2/37 from just five overs.
After the game, the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) shared a video shared, in which Rawal revealed how studying the human mind piqued her interest and the role psychology helped her shape her cricketing career. Rawal is a graduate in psychology from Jesus & Mary College in New Delhi after scoring an impressive 92.5 per cent in her CBSE 12th board exam.
“I wanted to study about that (human mind) and when I started studying about it, I was very keen on understanding how we mentally process (things) on the field and off the field. And, it has helped me a lot in cricket as well,” Rawal was quoted as saying in the video shared by BCCI on ‘X’.
“When I’m on the field before a match there is a lot of positive self-talk, what all I have to do in present and in future. Like, when I’m batting then also I see myself ‘you know you are the best, you can do this’. So, that affirmation needs to be there,” she added.
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She also played basketball and in January 2019 won gold at the 64th School National Games.
Pratika’s Formative Years
Rawal’s father, Pradeep Rawal, is a BCCI-certified Level-II umpire for the Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) and her cricketing journey began at the age of 10 under the guidance of coach Sharvan Kumar at Rohtak Road Gymkhana Cricket Academy. She also underwent further training under former cricketer Dipti Dhyani and the Delhi women’s team coach Dishant Yagnik.
Records in Domestic Career
She played for Delhi from 2021 to early 2024 and later the same year she switched to Railways and participated in the Senior Women’s One Day Trophy and Senior Women’s T20 Trophy.
In the 2021-22 Senior Women’s One Day Trophy, she made her List A debut for Delhi against Jharkhand on October 31st. She scored an unbeaten 161 runs off 155 balls against Assam. Throughout the season, she amassed 247 runs from seven matches, averaging 49.40 and striking at a rate of 78.41.
In the 2021-22 Senior Women’s T20 Trophy, she made her Twenty20 debut for Delhi against Railways on 21 April.
In the 2023-24 Senior Women’s One Day Trophy, she continued her impressive performance, scoring 411 runs from eight matches, averaging 68.50 and striking at a rate of 91.94. Notably, she achieved two centuries and recorded a top score of 141.
She also participated in the Women’s Delhi Premier League in 2024, playing for the East Delhi Riders.
In 2024, she led Delhi to the final of the 2024 Under-23 T20 Trophy. As the second-highest run-scorer for her team, she amassed 182 runs from nine matches, averaging 26 and striking at a rate of 85.94. She then made her first-class debut for the North Zone against the East Zone on April 3rd, 2024, in the 2023-24 Senior Women’s Inter Zonal Multi-Day Trophy.
In December 2024, she received her maiden call-up to the India women’s national cricket team for the ODI series against West Indies.
