At Harmanpreet Kaur’s home, her story begins with a message on a yellow boy’s suit: ‘Good Batting’ | Cricket News
Like they do every year, Harmandar Bhullar and his wife Satwinder Kaur prayed at the gurdwara in their village in Punjab’s Moga to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev. Yet, for the parents of women’s World Cup-winning skipper Harampreet Kaur, this year’s Gurpurab was extra special. This time, Satwinder carried with her a yellow toddler-size “boy’s suit”, which was bought on the day Harmanpreet was born. It has a slogan imprinted that now reads like a “prophecy”: “Good Batting.” Harmandar, a former clerk at a local court, recalled what made him buy the suit immediately after the birth of the first of his three children. “We wanted to tell the world that daughters are equal to sons. That is why we made her wear the suit after she was born. Soon after that, we took her to the gurdwara sahib near our home. Maybe, it was the prophecy written on it…Harman won the World Cup on Sunday and became the world’s best captain. Today we went to the gurdwara sahib to seek Guru Nanak Dev …
