Harmanpreet Kaur: India batter steps down as nationwide workforce captain in all three codecs
India batter Harmanpreet Kaur has left her function as nationwide workforce captain throughout all three codecs of global cricket.
Harmanpreet led India in 5 Tests, 51 one-day internationals and 155 T20 internationals and took her nation to their first international title, winning the 50-over World Cup last year.
The 37-year previous final captained her nation on 22 September, when she helped safe a second successive Asian Games title towards Sri Lanka.
In a post on Instagram, external, Harmanpreet mentioned she was leaving the India facet in a “good place” and that she’s now “able to play for the love of the sport once more”.
“This just isn’t a simple choice,” Harmanpreet wrote. “It carries years of reminiscences, feelings, sacrifices, and moments that can stick with me for the remainder of my life.
“I’ve given every thing I needed to this workforce and to Indian girls’s cricket – my blood, my sweat, my time, and plenty of instances, part of my very own sport and private ambitions.
“There had been moments after I needed to put my particular person efficiency, my very own progress, and what I needed for myself apart, as a result of I believed the workforce needed to come first.
“As a captain, I’ve needed to make troublesome choices. Decisions that weren’t all the time understood, not all the time simple, and generally got here at a private price. But each choice I made was with one intention – to make this TEAM higher and to provide different gamers the chance to develop, consider in themselves and turn into the most effective variations of themselves.”
Harmanpreet, who first captained India in 2012, led her facet to victory within the one-off Test against England at Lord’s in July.
However India exited the T20 World Cup in the group stage earlier within the month, failing to achieve the semi-finals for the second successive version of the event.
Her announcement comes a day after Harmanpreet met with vice-captain Smriti Mandhana, head coach Amol Muzumdar and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Devajit Saikia in Guwahati.
Mandhana, 30, is predicted to takeover the captaincy, with India set to welcome Zimbabwe for 3 T20s and three ODIs from 16 October.
