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: Milestone moments: Indian veterans Jhulan Goswami, Mithali Raj create new all-time World Cup records #IndiaNEWS Almost exactly 17 years ago, Jhulan Goswami took her first World Cup wicket, dismissing

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Milestone moments: Indian veterans Jhulan Goswami, Mithali Raj create new all-time World Cup records #IndiaNEWS
Almost exactly 17 years ago, Jhulan Goswami took her first World Cup wicket, dismissing Inoka Galagedara of Sri Lanka on 22 March 2005.Since then, she has dismissed 40 different batters, never getting the same batter out twice at a World Cup, with Mohammed her seventh West Indian victim.Goswami surpassed Australian Lyn Fullston who held the previous record since 1988, her 39 wickets coming at an average of 11.94.That first wicket back in 2005 may have been the only wicket she took in her debut World Cup match, but it was the first and only time she would end up with an economy lower than one.Goswami produced figures of eight overs, three maidens, five runs and one wicket, and she was just getting started, taking 13 wickets in the tournament in South Africa, her highest at a single World Cup.The 2009 World Cup was less fruitful, taking just four wickets but her best performance came against hosts Australia in the third-place play off, dismissing opener Leah Poulton and tailender Rene Farrell for figures of 2/21 as India won by three wickets.After taking nine wickets on home soil in 2013, Goswami was back in the double figures in 2017 as India lost out to England by nine runs in...Read more


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