Harmanpreet Kaur overtakes Rohit Sharma to become 1st player to feature in 150 T20Is

India
men’s
cricket
team
captain
Rohit
Sharma
is
the
second
player
in
line
to
achieve
the
feat.
He
has
played
148
matches
and
scored
3853
runs
at
an
average
of
31.31.
Four
women’s
players
–
Suzie
Bates,
Dani
Wyatt,
Alyssa
Healy
and
Ellyse
Perry
follow.

Players
to
play
most
number
of
T20I
matches
(Men’s
and
women’s)

150*
Harmanpreet
Kaur
(IND)

148
Rohit
Sharma
(IND)

143
Suzie
Bates
(NZ)

141
Dani
Wyatt
(ENG)

139
Alyssa
Healy
(AUS)

137
Ellyse
Perry
(AUS)

List
of
players
with
most
T20I
matches
(men’s)

Rohit
Sharma
(IND)
–
148

Shoaib
Malik
(PAK)
–
124

Martin
Guptill
(NZ)
–
122

Mahmudullah
(BAN)
–
121

Paul
Stirling
(IRE)
–
121

Harmanpreet
Kaur’s
India
are
currently
in
South
Africa
for
the
ongoing
Women’s
T20I
World
Cup.
The
side
defeated
Pakistan
by
seven
wickets
after
chasing
150
in
19
overs.
In
their
second
match
against
the
Women
in
Blue,
India
defeated
West
Indies
by
six
wickets
by
chasing
119
in
18.1
overs.
England
Women
prevailed
over
India
by
11
runs
on
Saturday,
February
18.

In
the
ongoing
match
at
St
George’s
Park,
India
opted
to
bat
first
after
winning
the
toss.
Opener
Shafali
Verma
(24)
and
Smriti
Mandhana
forged
a
62-run
stand
for
the
first
wicket.
Harmanpreet
walked
in
at
three
and
scored
13
runs
off
20
balls
before
being
dismissed
by
Laura
Delany.

The
33-year-old
India
Women
captain
has
scored
3006
runs
in
the
shortest
format
at
an
average
of
27.83.
She
has
nine
fifties
and
one
hundred
to
her
name.
The
Punjab-born
cricketer’s
3006
career
runs
is
the
fourth
highest
in
the
history
of
women’s
T20I
cricket.

Harmanpreet
Kaur
set
to
captain
Mumbai
Indians
in
inaugural
WPL
2023

The
right-hand
batter
was
recently
picked
by
Mumbai
Indians
(MI)
for
Rs
1.80
crore
in
the
first-ever
Women’s
Premier
League
(WPL)
auction.

Harmanpreet
Kaur
aiming
to
be
leading
run-getter
of
the
inaugural
WPL