ICC Women’s World Cup 2025: Harmanpreet Kaur Eyes Milestones in Her 5th Campaign

Women players who'll be playing their 5th ODI World Cup this year, lists only 5 cricketers and players (potentially) playing their 2nd ODI World Cup in India lists only 14 cricketers but only one name from India is common in both the lists and she is none other than the Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur. As she gears up for her fifth ICC Women's Cricket World Cup as a player, she is looking forward to what is a very important ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025.

‘Personally, this tournament is very important for me. This is a home World Cup. Home World Cups are special for every player. I have a lot of experience batting at No.4, I am just looking to contribute to the team,’ said Harmanpreet Kaur, who is captaining India for the first time in the marquee tournament.

She knows about the challenge she faces as a batter. In the recent past, against West Indies, she couldn’t score big, was out nursing a niggle through the ODI series against Ireland and after scores of 17 and 7 in the first two ODIs against England, the experts had started counting her days as India’s top batter. In fact, she hadn't hit an ODI half-century since October 2024 and had averaged 29 in 13 innings before the final ODI against England, at Chester-le-Street on 22 July this year. Then she scored 102* off 84 balls and declared that she is back.

Harmanpreet Kaur has a love affair with 50 over World Cup:

*She will be the 3rd Indian woman after Jhulan Goswami & Mithali Raj to captain India in both an ODI & T20 World Cups.

*Her ODI World Cup record: 26 matches, 876 runs, 3 100s and 7 wickets

* World Cup performance:

- Made her debut in 2009: 6 matches 40 runs

2013: 4 matches 159 runs, 1 hundred 

2017: 9 matches 359 runs, 1 hundred, 5 wickets 

2022: 7 matches 318 runs, 1 hundred, 2 wickets 

* From India only Mithali Raj has more World Cup runs 1321 in 38 matches.  Harmanpreet should become second from India to record 1000 World Cup runs.

* From India Harmanpreet has most (3) World Cup hundreds. Mithali and Smriti are second with two hundreds each.

* Harmanpreet 's highest World Cup score is 171* (v Aus 2017 semifinal) and only BJ Clark (AUS) 229*, AMCJK Athapaththu (SL) 178* and CM Edwards (ENG) 173* have scored more. SR Taylor (WI) also has the highest score of 171. 

* Women players who'll be playing their 5th ODI World Cup this year: Ellyse Perry, Marizanne Kapp, Suzie Bates, Sophie Devine and Harmanpreet Kaur.

* Women players (potentially) playing their 2nd ODI World Cup in India: Suzie Bates, Sophie Devine, Lea Tahuhu, Marizanne Kapp, Chloe Tryon, Sune Luus, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Tammy Beaumont, Amy Jones, Alyssa Healy, Ellyse Perry, Harmanpreet Kaur, Chamari Athapaththu.

* Harmanpreet Kaur ODI record: 149 matches, 4069 runs, 171* highest, 37.67 avg., 7 hundreds, 31 wickets. 

* Only Mithali Raj (7805), CM Edwards (5992), SW Bates (5896), SR Taylor (5873), BJ Clark (4844), KL Rolton (4814), AE Satterthwaite (4639), MM Lanning (4602), Smriti Mandhana (4588), TT Beaumont (4528), L Wolvaardt (4519), EA Perry (4187 ), SC Taylor (4101) and Nat Sciver-Brunt (4092) have more ODI runs than her.

Harmanpreet Kaur 171* is one of the finest innings played by any women cricketer. She played 115 balls, batted 143 minutes and hit 20 fours and 7 sixes to oust Australia in that World Cup semi-final at County Ground, Derby in June 2017. 

‘This was the innings: the perfect projection of what women’s batting could look like, the ceilings it could smash, the thrills it could offer, the jaw-dropping wrist work, the extraordinary Trumper-like backlift, the mad, inexplicable timing, the sheer balls of it all. Seven sixes. Harmanpreet went from her hundred to 171 in 25 balls, swatted with a regal air of stupendous entitlement. Her stage, her future. Every shot was an invocation, screamed to the skies.’ Phil Walker remembers.

Harmanpreet and Deepti Sharma (25) added a stormy 137 runs in just 82 balls for the fourth wicket. Harman surprised everyone and everyone stood up and applauded loudly. This is still the biggest innings in the semi-finals of the World Cup. India scored 281 runs and then restricted Australia to 245 runs and won the match and made it to the final.

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Note : All figures correct upto 12 Sept 2025