Cricketer Mithali Raj’s ‘cover drive’ reply to slut-shaming

Captain of the Indian women’s cricket team Mithali Raj had impressed one and all with her performance in the ICC Women’s World Cup. And she has not stopped there. The skipper has continued to impress even off the field with her sharp retort to online trolls and something similar happened again. Recently, the 34-year-old skipper found herself in the middle of a Twitter controversy when she shared a group selfie with her friends. Though the picture seemed perfectly innocuous, it did rattle some people online. Raj was soon called out by some of the Twitter users for her “dressing sense” and was asked to “delete” the picture. Such pictures were not expected from her, she was told. However, there were also others who defended her. Several users gave it back to the trolls by asking them to “change their mentality”. While this controversy generated several discussions, finally Raj has spoken up on the topic and like always has silenced her detractors with one single tweet.