Mithali Raj will always be known as the Indian women's skipper, who took the team to the pinacle with a ground-breaking year.
Raj guided the team to the Women's World Cup final, where they went down fighting to England, losing the final by just 9 runs.
Though it was a heart-breaking loss, India's tremendous run at the World Cup, brought the girls out from under the shadow of their male counterparts.
Apart from guiding her team, Mithali became the first woman to score seven successive half-centuries in women's ODIs.
Apart from becoming the leading run scorer in women's ODI, Raj also became the first woman to pass 6,000 runs in ODIs.
Raj (3542) also crossed Charlotte Edwards's 3523-run mark for most runs as a captain in ODIs. To top it off she is only the fifth batsman to make 1000 runs in the women's world cup.