Captain of the India women’s cricket team Harmanpreet Kaur

Captain of the India women's cricket team Harmanpreet Kaur

She plays for and captains Mumbai Indians in the Women’s Premier League. She plays as an all-rounder for the Indian women’s cricket team . and was awarded the Arjuna Award for Cricket in the year 2017 by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

In November 2018, she became the first woman for India to score a century in a Women’s Twenty20 International (WT20I). Match and is the only Indian women cricketer with more than 3,000 runs in T20Is .One of only three Indian women to have scored more. than 3,000 runs in Women’s One Day Internationals (WODI). In October 2019she became the first cricketer for India, male or female, to play in 100 international Twenty20 matches.

a volleyball and basketball player and Satwinder Kaur. Her younger sister Hemjeet, is post-graduate in English and works as an assistant professor at Guru Nanak College in Moga.] Her father, who now is a clerk at a judicial court, was once an aspiring cricketer. He was the first coach of Harman when she had started playing the sport. She took to cricket after joining the Gian Jyoti School Academy, 30 kilometers (19 mi) away from her residence in Moga, Harman used to play with men in the formative days of her career. She moved to Mumbai in 2014 where she started working for the Indian Railways.

Career

In March 2009 . she made her ODI debut aged 20 in a match against Pakistan women’s team played at Bradman Oval during the World Cup. In the match, she bowled 4 overs conceding 10 runs and also caught Armaan Khan off Amita Sharma. In June 2009, she made her Twenty20 International debut in the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 against England women’s team at County Ground, Taunton, where she scored 8 runs off 7 balls. In March 2013, she was named ODI captain of India women’s when Bangladesh women’s team toured in India

In January 2016, she helped India to win series in Australia as well as scored a 31-ball 46 runs in India’s highest ever chase in T20 internationals. She continued her form in the 2016 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 where she scored 89 runs and took seven wickets in four matches.[26] [27]

Kaur batting for Sydney Thunder in January 2017
Kaur receiving Arjuna Award in 2020

team

Women’s Cricket World Cup: 3rd place 2009
ICC Women’s T20 World Cup: semi-finalists 2009, 2010, 2023; runners-up 2020
Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup: Champions 2012, 2016, 2022
Women’s Premier League: Champion 2023[65]
Silver Medal in Cricket at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Gold Medal in Cricket at the 2022 Asian Games

individual

Arjuna Award for Cricket: 2017
Women’s Big Bash League Player of the Tournament: 2021–22
One of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year: 2023
Time 100 Next: 2023
BBC’s 100 Women list: 2023.


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