Personnel | |
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Captain | Mithali Raj |
Owner | Railways Sports Promotion Board |
Team information | |
Home ground | Karnail Singh Stadium, New Delhi (and other stadiums) |
Capacity | 5,000 |
History | |
WSODT wins | 15 |
SWTL wins | 11 |
Official website | RSPB |
The Railways women's cricket team is an Indian domestic cricket team and is run by the Railways Sports Promotion Board. [1] The team has represented the state in Women's Senior One Day Trophy (List A) and Senior women's T20 league. [2] [3] The team is known as the powerhouse of the women's Indian cricket as they dominated the competitions in both List A and T20 format. They also produced many international women cricketers for India.
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