T20s in Sri Lanka, ODIs in England, Tests in India. It’s been a wholesome week for women’s cricket, and as usual, our MI girls, in typical style, have left their impact everywhere. Read on..

Hayley Matthews: You’re never short on consistency with Hayley. Coming back from injury after missing a chunk of the ODI series against Sri Lanka, she was back doing her thing come the T20 leg. Her scores in the three-match T20I series: 30 off 30 balls, 29 off 29 balls, 49 off 40 balls. This, plus some economical spells through the three games, and some shrewd captaincy to lead the West Indies to a 2-1 series win, capped off what has been a very successful overseas tour.

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Amelia Kerr: Not peak Melie yet, but she’s getting there. After a slow start against England in the first ODI, she did hit her straps in the second game, anchoring the NZ innings for an 86-ball 43 as the rest of the batters kept falling around her. Alas, it wasn’t enough to stop a rampaging England side at home.

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Nat Sciver-Brunt: With the openers doing a large chunk of the heavy lifting, Nat hasn’t really had much to do as the England Women have brushed aside the White Ferns rather easily in the first two ODIs. She didn’t get to bat in the first game, but Nat being Nat, got the wicket of the dangerous Maddy Green to leave her impact on the game. In the second game, she hung around, played the perfect second fiddle, holding herself back and turning strike over to Maia Bouchier to make sure she got her century! Nat, the perfect team-mate!

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Harmanpreet Kaur: With Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana putting up a record opening stand, our Kaptaan Kaur walked in at number five, smashed a solid 69 – marking her first Test fifty – and helped India put up a whopping 603 runs on the board in the first innings. But what she’d be most happy with was the breakthrough she gave with the ball in South Africa’s second innings in the follow-on, getting rid of a set Sune Luus in the second innings to break a mammoth 190-run-stand that brought India back into the game. She then followed it up with some brilliant bowling changes, wrapping up their middle-order and leading India to its third consecutive Test win.

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Pooja Vastrakar: In a game dominated by runs and spin, Pooja wasn’t left with a lot to do. But her tight spell in the second innings where she conceded just 35 runs in her 16 overs with seven maidens and the vital wicket of Annerie Dercksen, that triggered the South African collapse, she found a way to leave an impact.