Indian Captain Harmanpreet Kaur Became First Women Cricketer To Play Most T20 International Match


Harmanpreet Kaur: The Indian women’s cricket team had to face defeat in the third T20 match against Australia. Apart from facing defeat in this match, the Indian team has also gone behind 2-1 in the series. Even though the Indian team has got defeated in this match, but the captain of the team, Harmanpreet Kaur has made a big world record in her name. Harmanpreet has made a record of becoming a female cricketer playing the most number of T20 International matches.

Harmanpreet played her 140th T20 International match for India and with this she has become the female cricketer to play the most T20 Internationals. He has broken the record of former New Zealand captain Suzy Bates, who has played 139 T20 Internationals for the Kiwi team. Denne Wyatt of England has also played 136 T20 Internationals. Australia’s Alyssa Healy is at number four in this list with 135 matches. Alice Parry of Australia has also played 129 matches.

India got defeated in the third match

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Batting first, Australia scored 172 runs thanks to Ellyse Perry and Grace Harris. Perry scored an inning of 75 runs in 47 balls and scored his first half-century in T20 International after 2019. Grace played a blistering inning of 41 runs in 18 balls and Led the team to a good score. Shafali Verma played an inning of 52 runs in 41 balls for India. Apart from Shafali, Harmanpreet also contributed 37 runs. Apart from these two batsmen, no one else played and this was the reason that India had to face this defeat.

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