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Harmanpreet Kaur became the highest-capped subordinate successful women's planetary cricket erstwhile she made her 356th appearance for India successful Thursday's (February 19, 2026) Twenty20 match against Australia, surpassing New Zealand large Suzie Bates.
Indian skipper Kaur, 36, has present played six tests, 161 One-Day Internationals and 189 T20 matches for her country since 2009. Bates, 2 years her elder, has not played for New Zealand since making her 355th planetary quality successful October during the ODI World Cup.
Kaur's compatriot Sachin Tendulkar holds the grounds for the astir planetary appearances successful men's cricket, having represented India 664 times crossed formats. Kaur has scored 8 centuries and 38 fifties for India, and led the state to their archetypal Women's World Cup rubric connected location soil successful November.
"Harman has been a peculiar subordinate for India. I privation to congratulate her for the monolithic accomplishment of being the highest-capped women's subordinate successful the history of the game," India's caput manager Amol Muzumdar told reporters.
Kaur was India's highest scorer with a sound of 36 arsenic India mislaid to Australia by 19 runs successful Griffith connected Thursday, levelling the three-match T20 series, with the decider acceptable for Saturday (February 21, 2026).
