DTVHINDI‘Do you want to be Australia’s Mithali Raj’ Nicole Bolton on former coach’s cruel comparison
Nicole Bolton is a former Australian women cricketer Nicole Bolton (Image Credit- Twitter X) Former Australian women cricketer Nicole Bolton has recently revealed about a cruel comparison made by her former coach, when her coach compared her to former Indian veteran cricketer Mithali Raj. After this comparison, a lot of changes were seen in her game. Let us tell you that the 35-year-old player has played a total of 55 international matches for the Australian women’s cricket team, including all formats. But her first-class cricket debut was in 2014, playing for West Australia, and the following year she started playing domestic cricket for Victoria. Here Nicole Bolton met Victoria’s coach Cathryn Fitzpatrick, who is a former Australian great bowler. A comparison with Fitzpatrick brought about a big change in Bolton’s game, about which she has now made a big statement. Nicole Bolton gave a big statement Let us tell you that recently, while recalling a cruel comparison of her former coach Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Nicole Bolton said on the Stories After Stumps podcast – I was trying to impress her (Cathryn Fitzpatrick) with my game for a long time. I wanted him to see me playing. I remember that time he called me to his office and said- Tell me honestly, do you want to become Mithali Raj of the Australian cricket team? I said- Why Mithali Raj? Bolton further said- Because you want to touch a strike rate of 50. If you make 100 or 100 runs in 150 balls, but still the team loses, then it does not mean anything. After this I said- what a thing, Fitzpatrick sees my game like this. This game was not good for me, because if he sees me playing like this, then my cricket career will be cut short. Let us tell you that this conversation of Fitzpatrick had a great impact on Bolton, which was also seen in his next few innings. In his next match, Bolton scored 170 runs in 156 balls, which included 24 boundaries.
