Indian women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur has achieved a big feat in the Test match being played against England at Lord’s. He achieved this milestone during his brilliant half-century innings. He has completed 9000 runs in international cricket. Now she has become only the third Indian player to make this record after Mithali Raj and Smriti Mandhana. Harman has achieved such a position in international cricket, which is the dream of every cricketer to touch.
Harmanpreet achieved a big feat after scoring 13 runs
Harmanpreet Kaur, one of the greatest women cricket players in the world, needed just 13 runs to complete her 9000 international runs before this match. As soon as he scored his 13th run on the fifth ball of the 24th over of the match, he achieved this feat. Harmanpreet played a brilliant inning of 58 runs in this match and made the record of completing 9000 runs in the history of women’s cricket.
Harmanpreet’s name joins the club of Mandhana and Mithali Raj
Now she has become the third player from India to score 9000 or more runs in women’s international cricket. Former Indian batsman Mithali Raj retired from international cricket in the year 2022, having scored 10,868 runs in her career. Whereas Smriti Mandhana has 10,667 runs in her name so far. Now Harmanpreet Kaur has also joined this exclusive club of 9000 runs as the third Indian batsman.
Good partnership between Harmanpreet Kaur and Mandhana
Harmanpreet played a brilliant inning of 58 runs in 121 balls. During his batting, he also hit 7 excellent fours. In this match, when the Indian team was in trouble, captain Harmanpreet Kaur and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana together handled the innings. Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana made a much-needed partnership of 89 runs in 155 balls for the fourth wicket. Mandhana also played brilliantly from the other side and played a quick inning of 83 runs in 108 balls. Due to the good batting of these two, the Indian team put pressure on the England bowlers on the very first day of the match. In the first innings of this match, Team India was all out after scoring 285 runs. For India, three batsmen scored half-centuries in this match.
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