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Pratika Rawal: Age, Stats, ODI Records and Test Debut

Pratika Rawal is an India opening batter who reached 500 women's ODI runs faster than any previous player and scored 1,189 runs in her first 27 ODIs. Born on 1 September 2000, she was 26 on 2 September 2026. Her career already includes a 154 against Ireland, 308 runs in India's 2025 World Cup-winning campaign, a Test debut in Australia and a T20I debut at the 2026 Women's Asia Cup.

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Right-handedRight-arm off spin bowlerBorn 1 September 2000

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Full namePratika Rawal

Age26As of 2 September 2026

Date of birth1 September 2000Delhi, India

Batting styleRight-handed

Bowling styleRight-arm off spin

Career overview

Pratika Rawal cricket career

Born in Delhi on 1 September 2000; age 26 on 2 September 2026.

Right-handed opening batter who also bowls right-arm off spin.

Scored 1,189 runs from 27 ODIs at an average of 47.56.

Reached 500 women's ODI runs in a record eight innings.

Made 18 and 63 on Test debut against Australia in March 2026.

Made her T20I debut against Thailand on 30 August 2026.

Career story

Pratika Rawal career and playing journey

Who is Pratika Rawal?

Pratika Rawal is a right-handed top-order batter who represents India and developed through Delhi and Railways domestic cricket. She entered the ODI side in December 2024 and formed a productive opening partnership with Smriti Mandhana, combining a steady base with the ability to accelerate once set.

Her first two international years moved quickly. Rawal broke the women's ODI record for the fewest innings to 500 runs, reached 1,000 in her 23rd innings, played a major role in India's home World Cup campaign and then returned from an ankle injury to debut in both Test and T20 international cricket during 2026.

Pratika Rawal's age, date of birth and birthplace

Pratika Rawal was born on 1 September 2000 in Delhi, India. She turned 26 on 1 September 2026, one day before this profile's current review date.

Age should move with the calendar while her date and place of birth remain fixed identity facts. Her Delhi background also matters to the cricket story: the city's school, club and state systems supplied the early pathway that eventually took her to Railways and the India team.

What is Pratika Rawal's playing role?

Rawal is an opening batter who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off spin. India has used her primary skill at the top of the order, where she can absorb the new ball, rotate strike and build long partnerships before increasing the scoring rate.

Her six ODI wickets show that the off spin is a genuine secondary option, although it has not made her a bowling all-rounder at international level. Role labels should follow workload and selection rather than list every skill as equal. Rawal's place in the senior side has been earned with runs.

School sport, psychology and an unusual early pathway

Rawal combined cricket with basketball and academics before her international breakthrough. Detailed interviews with her family and coaches report that she represented her school in basketball, studied psychology at Jesus and Mary College and used ideas from that subject to understand concentration and decision-making.

Those experiences add context without creating a neat cause-and-effect story that the evidence cannot prove. Basketball exposed her to another team sport, while psychology became part of the language she uses to discuss batting. Neither replaces the long hours of cricket practice that began when her father first put a bat in her hands.

How did Pratika Rawal develop in Delhi cricket?

Rawal trained in Delhi and progressed through age-group cricket before making her senior domestic debut in 2021. Her early development included work at Rohtak Road Gymkhana, where she trained against boys and older players, followed by coaching within the Delhi women's structure.

The route was not a straight line to national selection. Rawal had played under-19 cricket from a young age, produced domestic runs and still waited until 24 for an India debut. That delay gives the later rise useful context: selectors responded to sustained output rather than a brief age-group reputation.

The unbeaten 161 that strengthened her domestic case

An unbeaten 161 against Assam became one of Rawal's defining innings for Delhi. A score of that size demonstrates the main trait that later translated to ODI cricket: once she survives the early phase, she can bat long enough to shape an entire innings.

Domestic and international numbers belong to different statistical scopes. The 161 not out remains her List A high score and should not be confused with the 154 she later made for India. Both innings support the same career theme, but only the Ireland performance counts toward her ODI total.

Why did Pratika Rawal move from Delhi to Railways?

Rawal moved to Railways after establishing herself in Delhi cricket. Railways has long provided a strong women's domestic programme, and the change placed her in a competitive squad while keeping her performances visible to national selectors.

A state-team move does not erase the system that developed a player. Delhi remains central to Rawal's origin story, while Railways represents the next phase of senior domestic cricket. Her national selection followed that broader body of work rather than one transfer or one innings.

ODI debut against West Indies in December 2024

Rawal became India's 150th women's ODI player when she debuted against West Indies in Vadodara on 22 December 2024. She made 40 from 69 balls and shared a 110-run opening partnership with Mandhana as India won by 211 runs.

The debut showed the balance India wanted from its new opener. Mandhana could attack while Rawal protected her wicket and supplied stability. In the second match, Rawal made 76 and took two for 37, giving an early example of her batting value and occasional off-spin contribution.

The 154 against Ireland and India's 435 for five

Rawal scored 154 from 129 balls against Ireland at Rajkot on 15 January 2025. She hit 20 fours and one six, added 233 for the first wicket with Mandhana and helped India reach 435 for five, then the country's highest total in a women's ODI.

The innings was Rawal's first international century and the third-highest women's ODI score by an India batter at the time, behind Deepti Sharma's 188 and Harmanpreet Kaur's unbeaten 171. India won by 304 runs, so the individual milestone sat inside a record team performance rather than standing alone.

Fastest woman to 500 ODI runs

Rawal reached 500 women's ODI runs in her eighth innings, breaking Charlotte Edwards' long-standing record of nine innings. She passed the mark while scoring 78 against South Africa in the 2025 tri-series in Sri Lanka.

The record measures speed from debut to a career aggregate, not the fastest individual innings or the youngest player to reach 500. ICC also noted that only Janneman Malan, with seven innings in men's ODIs, had reached the mark faster across the two international categories at that point.

Pratika Rawal's 1,000-run milestone

Rawal reached 1,000 ODI runs in her 23rd innings during the 122 against New Zealand at the 2025 World Cup. That equalled Lindsay Reeler's women's ODI benchmark for the fewest innings to the landmark and made Rawal the fastest India woman to the total.

The first 500 and first 1,000 describe different stages of the same ODI start. Rawal held the outright women's record at 500, while the 1,000-run mark was record-equalling. Keeping that distinction avoids turning two impressive achievements into one inaccurate claim.

How did Pratika Rawal perform in the 2025 World Cup?

Rawal scored 308 runs in six innings at an average of 51.33 during the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup. She finished her tournament as India's second-highest run-scorer at the time of her injury, behind opening partner Mandhana.

Her contribution spread across the group stage rather than one isolated score. She supplied starts, made 75 against Australia and then converted in the must-win New Zealand match. Those runs are included in her ODI career total, so the tournament figure provides context rather than an extra set of runs to add.

The 122 that took India into the semi-finals

Rawal made 122 from 134 balls against New Zealand in Navi Mumbai on 23 October 2025. She and Mandhana, who scored 109, put on 212 for the opening wicket before India won by 53 runs under the DLS method and secured a semi-final place.

Rawal also dismissed Maddy Green during New Zealand's chase. The century carried extra value because India entered the match needing a result after an uneven group campaign. It was Rawal's first World Cup hundred and the innings in which she crossed 1,000 ODI runs.

The ankle injury that ended her World Cup on-field campaign

Rawal injured her ankle while trying to stop a boundary in India's final group match against Bangladesh on 26 October 2025. The injury ruled her out of the semi-final and final, and Shafali Verma replaced her in the tournament squad.

India went on to win the World Cup, making Rawal part of the title-winning campaign after 308 group-stage runs. She did not play in the knockout victories, so her achievement should be described with both parts intact: a major contribution to the campaign and an injury-enforced absence from the decisive matches.

UP Warriorz, the WPL 2026 auction and a missed season

UP Warriorz signed Rawal for INR 50 lakh for WPL 2026. The official squad record establishes the price and team registration, but she missed the tournament while completing rehabilitation from the ankle injury.

A contract and an appearance are separate facts. Rawal has a documented UP Warriorz association, yet she recorded no WPL 2026 matches, runs or wickets. The auction amount describes one season's franchise agreement and cannot be converted into annual salary, career earnings or net worth.

Return for the Australia ODI series

BCCI added Rawal to India's Australia ODI squad on 17 February 2026 after she completed rehabilitation at the Centre of Excellence. She played all three ODIs and scored 0, 52 and 27, taking her career aggregate to 1,189 runs from 27 matches.

The series provided evidence of match fitness before the Test debut rather than an instant return to her World Cup peak. A half-century in the second ODI was the main batting contribution. Australia won the series 2-1, so the comeback should not be presented as a team triumph.

Test debut at the WACA Ground

Rawal made her Test debut against Australia at the WACA Ground in Perth on 6 March 2026. She scored 18 in the first innings and 63 in the second, finishing her debut match with 81 runs and a batting average of 40.50.

The second-innings fifty showed that her method could stretch beyond white-ball cricket, but Australia won the four-day match by ten wickets. One Test is too small a sample for broad claims about a settled red-ball career. It establishes a promising debut and a new format on her record.

India A vice-captaincy and the England injury

BCCI named Rawal vice-captain of India A's one-day squad for the 2026 tour of England. During that trip, she suffered a right-knee injury and laceration in the second one-day match against England A, which ruled her out of India's Test at Lord's.

This was a different injury from the ankle problem sustained at the World Cup. Separating the two matters because the February clearance applied to the ankle, while the later knee incident affected another selection window. She was named for the Lord's Test squad but did not receive a Test appearance there.

T20I debut at the 2026 Women's Asia Cup

Rawal joined India's Asia Cup squad as Jemimah Rodrigues' replacement and made her T20I debut against Thailand in Dubai on 30 August 2026. Opening with Shafali Verma, she scored 22 from 18 balls in a 53-run partnership as India posted 159 for nine and won by 94 runs.

The debut came almost two years after her ODI introduction and expanded her international record to all three formats. It did not make her Rodrigues' replacement for the Asian Games: BCCI's announcement named Rawal only for the Asia Cup, so the two competition squads must remain separate.

Pratika Rawal's current ODI statistics

Through India's February 2026 series in Australia, Rawal had played 27 ODIs and scored 1,189 runs from 26 innings, with one not out. Her average was 47.56, strike rate 82.34 and highest score 154, supported by two centuries and eight fifties.

She had also taken six wickets with best figures of two for 37, conceding 188 runs from 34.5 overs. The bowling record is useful but much smaller than the batting sample. Five catches complete the current fielding line in the named international table.

Test and T20I statistics after her 2026 debuts

Rawal's Test record stood at one match, 81 runs and a high score of 63 after the WACA debut. Her T20I record stood at one match, 22 runs and a strike rate of 122.22 after the Asia Cup opener against Thailand.

These rows have precise cutoffs because both formats may change with her next selection. They should not be added to the ODI total as an invented all-international aggregate. Each format asks different questions of an opener and keeps its own matches, innings and scoring rates.

Pratika Rawal's records and achievements

Rawal's clearest individual records are reaching 500 women's ODI runs in eight innings and equalling the 23-innings benchmark for 1,000. Her 154 against Ireland was her maiden international hundred and formed part of India's 435 for five, while the 122 against New Zealand secured a World Cup semi-final place.

Team achievements include India's 2025 World Cup title, with Rawal contributing 308 runs before injury. She also received a Grade C BCCI annual retainership for 2025-26. A retainership grade is a contract category, while records, centuries and a World Cup campaign describe different types of achievement.

Pratika Rawal's salary and net worth

The dependable public financial number is UP Warriorz's INR 50 lakh WPL 2026 auction price. It belongs to that competition and season; it does not disclose tax, match fees, endorsements, domestic pay or the final amount received.

No audited public record establishes Rawal's current net worth. Online estimates that combine assumed contracts and endorsements cannot be checked against accounts, so this profile does not repeat them. The BCCI Grade C retainership confirms a contract tier, but the cited announcement does not publish a player-specific take-home total.

Pratika Rawal's family and personal life

Rawal's father, Pradeep Rawal, played university cricket and became a BCCI-certified umpire. Interviews with him describe teaching Pratika to hold a bat as a small child and supporting the long path through Delhi cricket. Reporting has also identified her mother Rajni and brother Shashwat in the context of that family story.

Dependable current sources do not establish a husband, boyfriend or partner. That absence of public information does not prove any relationship status, and private-life speculation adds nothing to an evidence-based cricket biography. Family details are included only where named reporting explains her development.

Pratika Rawal records

Pratika Rawal career statistics and records

Batting, bowling and fielding figures are kept separate by competition and format.

WODI career through 28 February 202627matches

Batting

Innings: 26
Runs: 1,189
High score: 154
Average: 47.56
Strike rate: 82.34
Not outs: 1
100s / 50s: 2/8

Bowling & fielding

Wickets: 6
Best bowling: 2/37
Average: 31.33
Economy: 5.40
Strike rate: 34.83
Balls: 209
Catches / stumpings: 5
5w / 10w: 0/0

Only fields published by the named source are shown; unavailable values are not guessed.

WTest career through 9 March 20261matches

Batting

Innings: 2
Runs: 81
High score: 63
Average: 40.50
Strike rate: 45.00
Not outs: 0
100s / 50s: 0/1

Bowling & fielding

Innings: 0
Wickets: 0
Balls: 0
Catches / stumpings: 0
5w / 10w: 0/0

Only fields published by the named source are shown; unavailable values are not guessed.

WT20I career through 30 August 20261matches

Batting

Innings: 1
Runs: 22
High score: 22
Average: 22.00
Strike rate: 122.22
Not outs: 0
100s / 50s: 0/0

Bowling & fielding

Innings: 0
Wickets: 0
Balls: 0
Catches / stumpings: 0
5w / 10w: 0/0

Only fields published by the named source are shown; unavailable values are not guessed.

Career chronology

Debut and last listed match

WODI

Debut

India v West Indies, Vadodara, 22 December 2024

Last listed match

Australia v India, Hobart, 28 February 2026

WTest

Debut

Australia v India, Perth, 6 March 2026

Last listed match

Australia v India, Perth, 6 March 2026

WT20I

Debut

India v Thailand, Dubai, 30 August 2026

Last listed match

India v Thailand, Dubai, 30 August 2026

Women's Premier League

Debut

Signed by UP Warriorz for WPL 2026

Last listed match

No appearance in WPL 2026 due to injury rehabilitation

Career achievements

Career achievements and milestones

Reached 500 women's ODI runs in a record eight innings.
Equalled the women's ODI benchmark of 23 innings to 1,000 runs.
Scored 154 against Ireland and shared a 233-run opening stand.
Made 308 runs in six innings during India's 2025 World Cup campaign.
Scored 122 against New Zealand to help India reach the World Cup semi-finals.
Made 18 and 63 on Test debut against Australia at the WACA Ground.
Made her T20I debut in India's 2026 Women's Asia Cup opener.
Received a BCCI Grade C annual retainership for 2025-26.

Reader questions

Pratika Rawal FAQ

How old is Pratika Rawal?

Pratika Rawal was born on 1 September 2000 and was 26 years old on 2 September 2026.

Where was Pratika Rawal born?

She was born in Delhi, India, and developed through the city's school, club and state cricket systems.

What is Pratika Rawal's role?

She is a right-handed opening batter who can also bowl right-arm off spin.

How many ODI runs has Pratika Rawal scored?

She had scored 1,189 runs from 27 ODIs at an average of 47.56 through 28 February 2026.

What is Pratika Rawal's highest ODI score?

Her highest ODI score is 154 from 129 balls against Ireland at Rajkot on 15 January 2025.

How fast did Pratika Rawal reach 500 ODI runs?

She reached 500 women's ODI runs in eight innings, breaking the previous record of nine innings.

Did Pratika Rawal play in the 2025 World Cup final?

No. She scored 308 group-stage runs but an ankle injury ruled her out of the semi-final and final as India won the tournament.

When did Pratika Rawal make her Test debut?

She debuted against Australia at the WACA Ground on 6 March 2026 and scored 18 and 63.

Which WPL team signed Pratika Rawal?

UP Warriorz signed her for INR 50 lakh for WPL 2026, but she missed the season while recovering from injury.

What is Pratika Rawal's net worth?

No audited public source establishes a dependable current net-worth figure for Pratika Rawal.

Conclusion

Pratika Rawal turned a delayed international opportunity into one of the fastest starts in women's ODI history. Her first 27 matches produced 1,189 runs, a record eight-innings journey to 500, a record-equalling path to 1,000 and two centuries with distinct value: 154 in India's record total against Ireland and 122 in a must-win World Cup match.

Injury interrupted the 2025 World Cup and removed her from WPL 2026, but the following year added Test and T20I debuts to her record. At 26, Rawal's career remains in an early phase; the strongest assessment rests on the runs already scored, the formats now entered and the next innings rather than predictions about where her totals will finish.