Harmanpreet Kaur created historical past on Saturday as she turned the primary cricketer, male or feminine, to captain in 150 T20I matches.The India captain reached the landmark in the course of the Ladies’s Asia Cup 2026 Group A conflict in opposition to Pakistan in Dubai. India have already secured their place within the semifinals and shall be aiming to finish the group stage with an ideal three wins from three.Harmanpreet, who has been one of many defining figures in India’s T20I historical past, now sits comfortably on the prime of the record for many matches as captain within the format. Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu is second with 121 matches, adopted by Australia’s Meg Lanning on 100 and England’s Heather Knight and Rwanda’s Diane Bimenyimana on 96 every.
Most matches as captain in Ladies’s T20Is
- 150* – Harmanpreet Kaur (IND-W)
- 121 – Chamari Athapaththu (SL-W)
- 100 – Meg Lanning (AUS-W)
- 96 – Heather Knight (ENG-W)
- 96 – Diane Bimenyimana (RWA-W)
Reflecting on the milestone, Harmanpreet performed down the importance of the quantity and pressured the significance of constant to get pleasure from her cricket.“Nice achievement. However the secret’s to maintain having fun with your self on the sector, and that could be a key. I attempt to sustain with that,” Harmanpreet stated when requested about main India for the one hundred and fiftieth time in T20Is.
Harmanpreet leaves Dhoni and males’s captains far behind
Harmanpreet’s landmark additionally places her nicely forward of the main males’s captains in T20I cricket. Namibia’s Gerhard Erasmus presently holds the lads’s file with 91 matches as captain, For India, former captain MS Dhoni has led the workforce in probably the most males’s T20Is, with 72 matches as captain, inserting him ninth total on the record.
Pakistan choose to bat first in opposition to India
In the meantime, Pakistan captain Fatima Sana received the toss and elected to bat first in opposition to India. Pakistan are in search of their second group-stage victory after beating Thailand of their opening match. India, in the meantime, enter the competition on the again of complete wins over Thailand and Hong Kong.India XI: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Pratika Rawal, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Bharti Fulmali, Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Prema Rawat, Nandani Sharma, Shree Charani, Kranti Gaud.Pakistan XI: Muneeba Ali (wk), Shawaal Zulfiqar, Gull Feroza, Ayesha Zafar, Sadaf Shamas, Fatima Sana (c), Umm-e-Hani, Eyman Fatima, Tuba Hassan, Nashra Sandhu, Sadia Iqbal.
