Harmanpreet Kaur wins Sportswoman of the Year in cricket at 2023 Sportstar Aces Awards

India girls’s group 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 mean of 32.75. Harmanpreet led India to a seventh Women’s Asia Cup title with a win over Sri Lanka and likewise helmed the group’s silver-medal profitable marketing campaign on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

“Thank you The Hindu Group and Sportstar for having me here and for this lovely award. It has been a great year for all of us and we have got great support from the BCCI. Now that the Women’s Premier League is coming, we are really looking forward to that. We will keep working hard and keep getting the support,” Harmanpreet stated.

She was equally spectacular within the 50-over format, during which her standout efficiency got here in opposition to England within the second ODI in September. She struck an unbeaten 143, the best by an Indian captain in girls’s ODIs. Her rating can be the third-highest particular person rating for India on this format. Harmanpreet now has 5 ODI a whole lot – 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.