The Indian women’s cricket team will participate in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup to be hosted by the England and Wales Cricket Board from June 12, in which its first match will be against the Pakistani women’s team on June 14. Team India has seen excellent performance in the T20 format in the last few years, a major reason for which is the excellent leadership of captain Harmanpreet Kaur. In such a situation, all the fans also hope that Team India will win the first Women’s T20 World Cup trophy. Harmanpreet, who has been a part of all the T20 World Cups till now, is going to have a chance to include herself in the special club as a captain this time.
Harmanpreet Kaur has to score only 19 runs
The record of scoring the most runs as a captain in the Women’s T20 World Cup is in the name of Australia’s Meg Lanning, who has scored 854 runs while playing 30 matches as captain in the history of the tournament. If we talk about Harmanpreet Kaur, she is at fourth position in this matter, in which she has 481 runs in her name at an average of 32.06 while captaining in 19 matches. In such a situation, after scoring 19 runs, Harmanpreet Kaur will become only the fourth and first Indian to score 500 or more runs as a captain in the Women’s T20 World Cup. Apart from Meg Lanning, the names of Charlotte Edwards and Chamari Atapattu are ahead of Harmanpreet Kaur in this list.
The player who scored the most runs as captain in the Women’s T20 World Cup
- Meg Lanning (Australia) – 854 runs
- Charlotte Edwards (England) – 768 runs
- Chamari Atapattu (Sri Lanka) – 500 runs
- Harmanpreet Kaur (India) – 481 runs
- Suzie Bates (New Zealand) – 473 runs
A fierce battle is going to be seen between Harman and Atapattu.
There will be a fierce battle between Team India captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Sri Lankan women’s team captain Chamari Atapattu in the upcoming T20 World Cup, in which there will be a race as to who remains at the number-1 position in terms of scoring the most runs in T20 Internationals as captain. Currently, Harmanpreet Kaur is at the first position in terms of scoring most runs as a captain in Women’s T20 International, in which she has 3145 runs in her name. If we talk about Chamari Atapattu, he has scored 3131 runs as captain, in which there is a difference of only 14 runs between the two players.
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