Harmanpreet Kaur breaks Meg Lanning record for most Women’s T20Is wins; Deepti Sharma first to reach 1000 runs & 150 wickets in T20Is
As India handed Sri Lanka a defeat by eight wickets in the third Women’s T20I at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday, Harmanpreet Kaur became the captain with the most wins in the women’s T20Is. Harmanpreet has now led India to 77 wins in 130 T20Is, going past Australia’s Meg Lanning, who won 76 of her 100 matches as the captain. 130 matches as a captain is also the most by any cricketer in women’s T20I. England’s Heather Knight (71 wins in 96 matches) and Charlotte Edwards (68 wins in 93 matches) follow Harmanpreet and Lanning in the list of most wins as a captain. On Friday, Indian women were clinical as they clinched the five-match T20I series against Sri Lanka, going 3-0 up after the first three matches. Medium pacer Renuka Singh Thakur’s four-wicket haul and opener Shafali Verma’s blazing 79 helped India chase down 113 in just 13.2 overs. Unique record for Deepti In the same match, star Indian all-rounder Deepti Sharma became the first cricketer across the men’s and women’s …








