Indian cricketer Pratika Rawal makes history

Dubai: Indian opener Pratika Rawal carried on her brilliant run to become only the second Indian woman cricketer after former India captain Mithali Raj, to score five successive 50 plus scores in One-day Internationals.

She achieved the feat during the match against South Africa in Colombo on Tuesday which India won by 15 runs.

Batting first India scored 276 for six with Pratika top scoring with a fluent 78 off 91 balls including seven boundaries and a six.

The 24-year-old began her streak earlier this year in Rajkot with an 89 against Ireland. She followed it up with scores of 67 and a career-best 154 in the same series. Her unbeaten 50 against Sri Lanka in the ongoing Tri-Nation series kept the run going.

Rawal, who debuted against the West Indies in December last year at Vadodara, reached her 500-run mark in just her eighth innings and becoming the fastest woman to reach 500 runs in ODIs.

Rawal broke former England captain Charlotte Edwards' record of reaching 500 ODI runs in just nine innings, achieving it in just her eighth innnings.