-Vinay Kumar
The ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, 2022 continues in New Zealand. In this tournament, the Indian women’s team defeated their arch-rivals Pakistan in their very first match. On Sunday, March 6, India defeated Pakistan by 107 runs in a clash at Mount Maunganui Ground, Bay Oval, New Zealand. India’s player Harmanpreet Kaur could not show a great game in this match.
Today 8th March is the birthday of Harmanpreet Kaur.
Harmanpreet Kaur was born on International Women’s Day in 1989 in Moga, Punjab. Today is her 33rd birthday. The history of international women’s cricket tells that Harmanpreet Kaur, who debuted in the world of cricket with the match played against Pakistan in 2009 (PAKW vs INDW 2009), has played 112 ODIs and 121 T20 matches so far in her international career. Let us also talk about his special record, in which he has surpassed the former captain of the Indian men’s team and one of the world’s greatest batsmen, Virat Kohli, whom Harmanpreet has overtaken.
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International cricket career of Harmanpreet Kaur
Harmanpreet Kaur has played 3 Test matches so far in her international cricket career, in which she has taken 9 wickets and scored 38 runs.
Harmanpreet has played 112 One Day International matches, in which he has taken 19 wickets and has also added 2669 runs in his account while batting.
He has scored 3 centuries and 13 half-centuries in ODIs. She is the main force of the team in the lower order of the Indian women’s team.
He has played a total of 121 matches in his T20I career so far. In T20Is, he has taken 30 wickets and has scored 2319 runs while playing the role of an all-rounder.
Harmanpreet Kaur has scored 1 century and 6 half-centuries in T20 Internationals. Not only this, he also took 47 catches and sent the players of the opposition team to the pavilion.
Harmanpreet Kaur is the first Indian woman player to score a century in T20I cricket.
In this matter, she has even gone ahead of the former Indian captain Virat Kohli of Men’s Cricket Team India.
Virat Kohli has not scored a century in the T20I match so far. His best score in T20Is is 94 runs (not out).
Virat Kohli has hit 30 half-centuries in T20Is, but he has failed to score a century.
The captain had said this thing
It is worth noting that before the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, women’s cricket team captain Mithali Raj had said that the experience of star all-rounder Harmanpreet Kaur is very important for the team’s middle order. In the last few days, Harmanpreet was not able to score many runs, but she played a fine innings of 63 runs against New Zealand in the 5th ODI. And after that against South Africa (South Africa Women’s Cricket Team vs Harmanpreet Kaur) in practice practice, scoring 104 runs before the World Cup has returned to form. However, in the match played against Pakistan (Harmanpreet Kaur vs Pakistan), he scored only 5 runs in 14 balls.