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Harmanpreet Kaur: The girl who bowled medium pace with a dupatta tied around her waist, conquers the world | Cricket News

Harmanpreet Kaur: The girl who bowled medium pace with a dupatta tied around her waist, conquers the world | Cricket News

Many years ago, a young girl wearing her school uniform with a dupatta tied around her waist was troubling senior boys with her pace at the Guru Nanak College ground in Moga, Punjab. This is how Harmanpreet Kaur’s coach Kamaldeesh Singh Sodhi remembers the first time he saw the future Indian batting superstar. On Sunday in Navi Mumbai, that young girl from Moga, who has redefined women’s cricket in India, created history, becoming the country’s first-ever ICC Women’s World Cup-winning captain. Kamaldeesh knew that day he had spotted a gem. “I was on my morning jog when I saw this girl bowling. I had not seen any other girl of her age bowling with that kind of pace and guile. I knew she was special,” Kamaldeesh told The Indian Express. But it is not with the ball in hand that Harmanpreet will go on to etch her name in the annals of Indian cricket history. With the bat in hand, swinging it through cleanly to be one of the women’s game’s most powerful hitters, and …