Harmanpreet Kaur: India's power-hitting global women's cricket star

If you've heard of Harmanpreet Kaur, it's likely you're familiar with her epochal 171 not-out in India's unlikely win in the 2017 ODI World Cup semi-final against Australia.

Or maybe you know that she is the captain of the Indian women's cricket team, the first and only woman to hit a T20 century for India and the first cricketer from the country to get a contract in an overseas franchise-league.

Impressive as the legacy is, Kaur, 34, has added a raft of firsts to her name in 2023 alone - the 15th year of her international career.

In February, she became the first cricketer to play 150 T20s and the first captain to lift the Women's Premier League title the following month. Later in the year, she co-captained India to their first-ever Asian Games gold medal in cricket alongside Smriti Mandhana.

Wider recognition followed as Wisden named her one of its five cricketers of the year, a first for an Indian woman; BBC's 100 influential women of the year line-up featured her, as did TIME magazine on its 100 Next list.