India girls’s crew captain Harmanpreet Kaur was adjudged Sportswoman of the Year in cricket on the 2023 Sportstar Aces Awards in Mumbai on Monday.
Harmanpreet had a profitable 2022 with the bat. She made 524 runs in 22 T20Is at a median of 32.75. Harmanpreet led India to a seventh Women’s Asia Cup title with a win over Sri Lanka and in addition helmed the crew’s silver-medal profitable marketing campaign on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
She was equally spectacular within the 50-over format, through which her standout efficiency got here in opposition to England within the second ODI in September. She struck an unbeaten 143, the very best by an Indian captain in girls’s ODIs. Her rating can also be the third-highest particular person rating for India on this format. Harmanpreet now has 5 ODI a whole bunch – the joint second-most by a batter for India Women.
Legendary India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar, former India hockey captain M. M. Somaya, chess nice Viswanathan Anand, former India soccer skipper Bhaichung Bhutia, Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra and Olympians Anjali Bhagwat and Aparna Popat are the members of the Sportstar Aces 2023 jury.
The occasion is supported by IDFC First Bank, Indian Oil, India Cements, United India, Ramaiah University, Experimenta Science Center GD Naidu Charity, Finolex Pipes, LIC, BPCL, Samsonite, Big Basket, Nippon Paint, CRICHQ, Wordswork, NewsX and Casagrand.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com