Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur completed her 8000 runs in T20 cricket during her team's clash against Delhi Capitals at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara on Saturday, February 15.
Harmanpreet has become the second Indian batter to reach 8000 runs in T20s, following the footsteps of Smriti Mandhana. Harmanpreet needed 37 runs to get to the milestone and she got there in the 11th over of the first innings.
Harmanpreet smashed Annabel Sutherland for a couple of fours and then a six to get to the milestone. She hit another four off the Aussie all-rounder before getting dismissed by the Aussie star on 42 from 22 balls.
The Delhi Capitals asked the Mumbai Indians to bat first. MI managed to get to 164 on the back of Harmanpreet's cameo and a strong knock from Nat-Sciver Brunt. The English all-rounder smashed 80 runs and took the Capitals to a strong total.
Meg Lanning had earlier confirmed that her team would be bowling first. "We are going to have a bowl. As we saw last night, pretty good wicket and gives us a chance to get together as a team. We have got the bones of a really good team, it is about putting it out as a team. Really good shots and it is about taking wickets. We have had a little bit of sickness going around, so that makes it easy for us. Sarah Bryce and Niki Prasad debut for us," Lanning said at the toss.
"Definitely bowling, but we saw last night the ball was coming on to the bat nicely and hopefully we will bat well. Last season we wanted to play fearless cricket and this season also we would look to do that. Doing the right things is what we want to do. We did not want to try anything new, last season we got a bit of success and in the first season we did everything right. So we don't plan to try anything new this season even though we have a debutant tonight and she brings a lot of balance to the side," Harmanpreet said at the toss.