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Harmanpreet Kaur, during her innings of 102 in the third ODI against England, became only third Indian player to go past 4000-plus ODI runs in women's ODIs after Mithali Raj and Smriti Mandhana.
India women skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, on Tuesday (Jul 22), became only the third player to go past 4000-plus ODI runs for the country. She achieved the milestone during her innings of 102 in the third ODI against England women at Chester-le-Street. Before Kaur, only Mithali Raj and Smriti Mandhana had reached the same milestone for India. Overall, she's 17th player in the world to go past 4000-plus runs in women's ODI's. Kaur now has 4,069 runs in women's ODIs - third most behind Mandhana's 4,588 and Mithali's 7,805 for India. Harman's innings also ensured that India finish their innings at a strong total of 318/6 in the series decider which hangs in balance at 1-1.
Apart from that, Harman also became only the sixth player in women's ODI history to score 1000-plus runs in a single country away from home. Ahead of Kaur, Belinda Clark, Karen Rolton, Mithali Raj, Debbie Hockley, Charlotte Edwards had achieved the same feat. Here's how many runs each of them scored:
India skipper Kaur is also only the second Indian behind Mithali Raj to score 1000-plus ODI runs in England. Mithali and Harman are only two foreign batters to score 1000-plus ODI runs in England with Australia's Ellyse Perry being third best with 962 runs in ODIs in England.