{"id":24032,"date":"2026-02-20T16:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/indias-kaur-becomes-highest-capped-woman-in-international-cricket\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:46","slug":"indias-kaur-becomes-highest-capped-woman-in-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/indias-kaur-becomes-highest-capped-woman-in-international-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Kaur becomes highest-capped woman in international cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harmanpreet Kaur became the highest-capped player in women\u2019s international cricket when she made her 356th appearance for India in Thursday\u2019s Twenty20 match against Australia, surpassing New Zealand great Suzie Bates.<\/p>\n<p>Indian captain Kaur, 36, has now played six tests, 161 One-Day Internationals and 189 T20 matches for her country since 2009. Bates, two years her elder, has not played for New Zealand since making her 355th international appearance in October during the ODI World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Kaur\u2019s compatriot Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most international appearances in men\u2019s cricket, having represented India 664 times across formats.<\/p>\n<p>Kaur has scored eight centuries and 38 fifties for India, and led the country to their first Women\u2019s World Cup title on home soil in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarman has been a special player for India. I want to congratulate her for the massive achievement of being the highest-capped women\u2019s player in the history of the game,\u201d India\u2019s head coach Amol Muzumdar told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Kaur was India\u2019s highest scorer with a knock of 36 as India lost to Australia by 19 runs in Griffith on Thursday, levelling the three-match T20 series, with the decider set for Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15312,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-24032","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kaur has scored eight centuries and 38 fifties for India.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Kaur has scored eight centuries and 38 fifties for India.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26836,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24032\/revisions\/26836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}