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Follow UsIndian women’s cricket team under the leadership of Harmanpreet Kaur, locked horns with arch-rivals Pakistan at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. It was the second match for India after a defeat in the opening fixture against the World champion Australian team. The women in blue went on to register an emphatic win in the second match against Pakistan. Both teams played this match at Edgbaston Stadium on July 31 (Sunday).
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Star opening batter Smriti Mandhana played a vital knock of 63 runs to help seal the victory with a massive margin of eight wickets. Apart from this, Indian women’s skipper Harmanpreet Kaur also registered a unique record to his name. She has now left the men’s skipper, MS Dhoni, behind in most T20I wins by an Indian captain.
Harmanpreet Kaur leaves both Kohli and Dhoni in terms of captaincy in T20 internationals
The 33-year-old played an impressive knock of 52 runs in the inaugural match of the Commonwealth 2022 at Edgbaston on July 29 (Friday). Although her inning went in vain as India lost by three wickets against the Aussie team. But the Indian bowlers played exceptionally well against the men in green.
Coming back to Harmanpreet Kaur’s captaincy record. She has captained the Indian women’s team in 71 T20I matches. In these matches, India won a record number of 42 matches along with 26 defeats and three matches ended without any result.
Whereas, former men’s skipper Dhoni led the Indian team to the first ever title win in the T20 World Cup of 2007. He won 41 matches for India out of 72 matches, one less than that of Kaur. Following Dhoni’s reign as a captain of India, Virat Kohli led the team in 50 matches and registered 30 wins with 16 defeats. The winning percentage as captain is better on Kohli’s side but women’s skipper Kaur has more wins to his name.
This win against Pakistan in CWG 2022 has also taken the Indian women’s team to the top spot in the Group A table in Birmingham Games.