WPL 2025: Harmanpreet Kaur scripts history, becomes 2nd Indian woman to complete 8000 T20 runs

India Women's National Cricket Team and Mumbai Indians skipper Harmanpreet Kaur achieved a massive feat in the history of T20 cricket. She became only the second Indian woman to go past 8000 runs in the shortest format of the game.

Harmanpreet Kaur achieved the feat during the second game of the Women's Premier League (WPL) 2025 between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals. The match between the two teams is taking place at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara on Sunday (15th February).

Harmanpreet Kaur bailed Mumbai Indians out of trouble when they were under pressure

Harmanpreet came up with a decent hand for her team as she bailed the team out of trouble when they were under pressure. Mumbai Indians were reduced to 32/2, it was then that the skipper stepped up and made sure that she stepped up for her team.

Harmanpreet along with Nat Sciver-Brunt, who played a vital hand of 80 runs, added 73 Runs for the third wicket that took Mumbai Indians past 100 runs. The skipper looked extremely solid and played some magnificent shots in her innings.

Harmanpreet Kaur played a vital innings of 42 runs off 22 balls, taking Mumbai Indians to a total of 164 runs on the board

Harmanpreet played a vital innings of 42 runs off 22 balls. The Mumbai Indians skipper batted with a strike rate of over 190 and also slammed 4 fours and 3 sixes in her innings. Thanks to her knock, the franchise posted a total of 164 runs on the board.

With her knock, Harmanpreet joined Smriti Mandhana as the India women's batter with 8000 runs in T20s. Here's the list of Most T20 Runs by An Indian Women's Team Batter:

8349 - Smriti Mandhana

8005 - Harmanpreet Kaur

5826 - Jemimah Rodrigues

4542 - Shafali Verma

4329 - Mithali Raj

3889 - Deepti Sharma

Harmanpreet Kaur becomes the 6th Indian batter to go past 8000 runs in T20 cricket, joining Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina in the list

Overall, Harmanpreet became the 6th Indian batter to go past 8000 runs in T20 cricket. She joined Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina and Smriti Mandhana

Indian Batters to complete 8000 T20 Runs:

Virat Kohli
Rohit Sharma
Shikhar Dhawan
Suresh Raina
Smriti Mandhana
Harmanpreet Kaur

Overall, Mumbai Indians didn't have a great outing with the bat as, apart from Harmanpreet and Nat Sciver-Brunt, no other batter could get going. They couldn't even play entire 20 overs as Delhi Capitals bowlers were all over the batters, picking wickets at regular intervals.

Annabel Sutherland was the pick of the bowlers for Delhi Capitals as she claimed three wickets. Apart from her, Shikha Pandey also bagged two wickets while Alice Capsey and Minnu Manni were also in wickets.

Mumbai Indians now would be keen to defend the target and win the game to start the tournament on high. They won the title in the first edition and would be hoping for the same this time too.

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