Highest score by an Indian in a World Cup knock-out game. Highest score by any player in the knock-out game of Women's World Cups. First Indian woman to win ICC Player of the Month award. Indian captain to lead the team in the 2020 ICC Women's World T20 finals and 2022 Commonwealth Games final. First player to feature in 150 T20Is. First Indian to score a century in WT20Is. First Indian to be signed by an overseas Twenty20 franchise. And the list goes on. Having any of these feats to your name would be a huge achievement, but having them all is simply mind-boggling.

That’s the extraordinary resume of our Kaptaan Kaur we’re talking about.

Over the last decade or so, she has given us umpteen opportunities to celebrate cricket, and it is time for us to commemorate आपली कर्णधार on the occasion of her 34^th birthday! March 8 is also celebrated as International Women's Day. What a day to be born, Skip. You truly epitomise women's empowerment! 

Talking about empowerment, Harmanpreet, through her sheer grit and determination, has changed the way how women's cricket was perceived in India after her belligerent 171* against the mighty Australians in the semi-final clash of the 2017 ICC Women's World Cup. "Nothing is impossible" was written all over her innings as she gave the defending champions a run for their money. The Indians might have gone into the penultimate game as underdogs, but thanks to Harmanpreet, they earned the "favourites" tag going into the final. Quite the turnaround, eh?

While we can talk all day long about her 171*, let us not discount her other entertaining and match-winning innings as a player for India over the last 14 years. Whether it was her 143* against England in September 2022, when she went completely berserk with her swashbuckling stroke-play on British soil or her 2018 heroics in the ICC Women's World T20 when she hammered a century to knock out the White Ferns from the competition.

Oh and lest you forget, her lighting up of the WPL! A 30-ball 65 studded with 14 fours, doing exactly what Brendon McCullum did back in 2008 to announce the tournament’s arrival.

Isn't it why she is fondly called Thor?

We are glad to have Harman in our family as our leader, and we hope to see her doing wonders for us at Mumbai Indians. After pocketing two wins in as many games, the journey is only expected to get better and better.

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