WPL has set the stage, now the playfield needs to get bigger: Mithali Raj

Hammering boundaries: Meet Mithali Raj, former captain, Indian women's cricket team

“It’s unbelievable, I know, but I still haven’t taken a holiday,” Mithali Raj says, breaking out into laughter halfway through the thought. “My mother is always admonishing me for it, saying that I’m just packing and leaving and then coming back home to basically pack again. But that’s how it’s been.” 

It’s a lazy Friday morning and we are talking across a computer screen — Raj is in Mumbai for the Women’s Premier League (WPL) and I am in Delhi. I tell her that this interview is ideally done in person and over a meal. “Oh man, that would’ve been