Girls’s group captain Harmanpreet Kaur was once the one Indian participant to get picked within the Girls’s Heavy Bash League in another country draft, being retained by way of Melbourne Renegades in Melbourne on Sunday. A complete of 18 Indian avid gamers, together with Yastika Bhatia, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma, amongst alternative figured within the inaugural WBBL in another country draft however none were given picked. Positioned within the platinum section, Harmanpreet was once retained by way of the Renegades at the side of Hayley Matthews of the West Indies. Harmanpreet carried out remarkably for the Renegades right through the 2021-22 season, scoring 406 runs in 12 innings at a median of 58.00 and a clash fee of 130.96, together with 3 half-centuries and a govern ranking of 81 now not out.
She was once additionally efficient with the ball, taking 15 wickets at an economic system of seven.45, with highest figures of three for 22.
Harmanpreet had made her WBBL debut with Sydney Thunder in 2016-17.
Talking on Harmanpreet’s retention, Renegades head trainer Simon Helmot said, “I’m so pleased we got both of them (Harmanpreet and Hayley) and I’m looking forward to them working with us again this year.
“It was once a difficult choice — will we walk Harmanpreet at pick out 3, or will we walk Hayley? Thankfully, it labored out for us that Harmanpreet was once nonetheless to be had in the second one spherical, so shall we nonetheless get her as a Platinum pick out.” Harmanpreet’s long list of domestic franchise T20 teams include Lancashire Thunder, Supernovas, Manchester Originals and Trent Rockets (The Hundred) and Mumbai Indians (Women’s Premier League).
The WBBL overseas draft also included Indian players such as Harleen Deol, Hurley Gala, Richa Ghosh, Mannat Kashyap, Amanjot Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shikha Pandey, Shreyanka Patil, Sneh Rana, Meghana Sabbineni, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Pooja Vastrakar and Radha Yadav.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Subjects discussed on this article
