Kaur, who just lately led India to the semifinals of the Women’s T20 World Cup earlier than dropping to Australia, is the primary cricketer to play 150 T20Is. She was purchased by the Mumbai Indians franchise for Rs 1.80 crore within the WPL public sale final month.

The Mumbai-based outfit will play their first match in opposition to Gujarat Giants on March 4 within the opening contest of the WPL.

MI proprietor Nita Ambani stated,” We are thrilled to have Harmanpreet because the captain of Mumbai Indians’ first-ever girls’s cricket workforce. As the nationwide captain, she has led the Indian Women’s workforce to a few of their most fun wins. And I’m certain that with Charlotte and Jhulan’s help, she is going to encourage our MI girls’s workforce to play their greatest cricket, show a way of pleasure, and produce much more glory to girls in sports activities. We are so trying ahead to the start of this new chapter for MI! I can’t wait to see our women play the fearless and entertaining MI model of cricket that our followers adore. More energy to Harmanpreet and your complete MI workforce on this thrilling journey forward!”

After she had been purchased by the MI on February 13, Kaur had stated, “It feels great, I have always seen Mumbai Indians doing really well in the IPL and I also have an opportunity to be a part of the MI team and I hope we’ll make a good team and we’ll do what we are there to do.”

“I think it’s a gamechanger for all of us. To experience this pressure for the first time, I am very excited and at the same time it will entirely change women’s cricket, not only in India but even in world cricket. It’s a great initiative and we are all looking forward to that. How then men’s team were doing for MI, we will also like to contribute the same way,” she had added again then.