Railways women's cricket team

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Railways Women
Personnel
Captain Mithali Raj
Owner Railways Sports Promotion Board
Team information
Home ground Karnail Singh Stadium, New Delhi (and other stadiums)
Capacity5,000
History
WSODT  wins15
SWTL  wins11
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 players who would go up into the international scene.

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References

  1. "Railways Women at Cricketarchive".
  2. "senior-womens-one-day-league". Archived from the original on 17 January 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  3. "senior-womens-t20-league". Archived from the original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2017.