Harmanpreet Kaur is a legend of the game. Her gargantuan contributions as leader toward helping her team that found itself in a bit of an embattled situation at different points of time in the recent ODI 2025 World Cup campaign has only furthered the legend of a cricketer whose peak is what we are seeing at the moment. And one whose best days may yet be ahead of her. For someone who has rubbed shoulders with some of the finest and high achieving legends such as Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning, Lea Tahuhu, Stafanie Taylor, Merissa Aguilleira, Shauna Kavanaugh, Asmavia Iqbal, Nain Abidi, Nida Dar among others, Harmanpreet Kaur is an affable and loving captain who rounds up as one of the most chilled out and sorted characters of the Indian women’s team. Make no mistake, she’s been a first hand witness to a real legend doing her job: Mithali Raj, besides seeing in motion someone like Jhulan Goswami who’s the other tall legend of the sport, literally speaking.
That told, what is it about the leadership domain that concerns the freely scoring and fantastic Harmanpreet Kaur and why we must make time for such contest, as well?
Test Match Cricket
| Format | #Matches | Won | Lost | Drawn | Tied | Win % |
| Test | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
A win percentage that most would simply dream of, isn’t it! A 100 percent intact Test match winning record. Just outstanding, isn’t it? What else would ever suffice?
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ODI Cricket
| Format | #Matches | Won | Lost | Tied | No result | Win% |
| ODI | 48 | 30 | 16 | 1 | T | Touching 64 |
Where it comes to one day international cricket, a format in which the recent World Cup winner for her Team India excels, there is more than just stats that drive home a point about Harmanpreet Kaur. In 2017 Women’s ODI World Cup in England, the contest against Australia even before the semi’s stage saw the Punjab-born dashing batter score 171 unbeaten runs. That was more than an inning; it was a fire starter that gave new and enriching meaning to the spectre of women’s cricket altogether. A revolutionary, marathon knock that did to promoting the concept of Women’s cricket what say mega successful film ventures such as a Dil Chahta Hai did for Bollywood in that it birthed a new wave of cinema, and fans.
Likewise, Harmanpreet’s audacious knock known for its power hitting and sublime timing birthed a new generation of fans that have since then taken to cricket like a fish to water, thereby springing to life what can be, hearteningly called, a way of life. For that is what cricket is to so many around us.
What do you feel?
T20I Cricket
| Format | #Matches | Won | Lost | Tied | Win% |
| Int game’s shortest format | 129 | 4 | 48 | 0 | 61.2 |
In the above, what is also interesting and must be noted is that there have been no fewer than 5 no results for Harmanpreet Kaur, the captain of the women’s national team. And No results definitely impact the overall standing of a skipper, irrespective of a player’s experience and nature of leadership for the simple reason that every no result means that it’s a chance lost to add to one’s winning stack. What do you think?
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