Australia’s T20 World Cup 2023-winning captain Meg Lanning has been named because the captain of the Delhi Capitals franchise in Women’s Premier League 2023. India batter Jemimah Rodrigues has been named because the vice-captain of the facet, the franchise introduced on Thursday, March 2. Lanning has received the T20 World Cup thrice as captain with the Australian staff whereas she additionally received the 2022 ODI World Cup in New Zealand. A day earlier than, Mumbai Indians had named Harmanpreet Kaur as their captain. Harman can also be the India captain who took her facet to the semi-finals of the ICC T20 World Cup 2023 the place they misplaced to Australia. Harman vs Lanning has been a giant contest in worldwide cricket. That’s why Delhi Capitals vs Mumbai Indians, mechanically, turns into a marquee sport within the first version of WPL 2023.
Lanning can also be the primary cricketer to steer in 100 T20 Internationals.
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Lanning has performed 6 Tests, 103 ODIs and 132 T20Is for Australia, scoring 345, 4602 and 3405 runs respectively in every of those codecs. With Lanning named as Delhi Capitals captain, we now have the names of all 5 captains taking part in in inaugual version of Women’s Premier League. Harmanpreet goes to steer Mumbai Indians whereas Alyssa Healy would be the captain of UP Warriorz. Smriti Mandhana goes to steer RCB and Beth Mooney shall be captaining Gujarat Giants.
It shall be attention-grabbing to see how Lanning fares as DC captain. As a frontrunner, she has been one of the best within the girls’s sport. The present Australian girls’s cricket staff is hailed as arguably one of the best on the planet as they’ve received the whole lot. From ODI World Cup to T20 World Cups, Lanning’s staff has received all ICC trophies. By successful the T20 WC 2023, they, actually, accomplished a three-peat, clinching three back-to-back trophies.