Harmanpreet Kaur, an Indian cricketer, was born in 1989.
Harmanpreet Kaur, who was born on March 8, 1989, is an Indian cricketer who now serves as the captain of the Indian side in Twenty20 Internationals. She is an all-rounder for the Indian women's cricket team and received the Arjuna Award for Cricket from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in 2017. She became India's first woman to strike a century in a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) match in November 2018. During the series against South Africa in October 2019, she became the first Indian cricketer, male or female, to play in 100 international Twenty20 matches.
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