Historic Achievement: Harmanpreet Kaur becomes the first Indian cricketer (men & women) to score a fifty in all three formats (Tests, ODIs, T20Is) at Lord’s.

Record-Breaking Innings: Scored 58 runs in the first innings of India’s one-off Test against England, adding to her previous ODI and T20I fifties at the iconic venue.

Global Context: She is also the first female cricketer worldwide to achieve this feat; only a few male players like Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, and Younis Khan have done it at Lord’s.

Indian women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur entered her name in the history books on Friday (July 10) by becoming the first Indian player (men’s and women’s combined) to score a fifty in all three formats of the game (Tests, ODIs and T20Is) at Lord’s. The 37-year-old right-handed batter from Punjab scored 58 runs for India in the first innings of the ongoing one-off Test against England at Lord’s on Friday.

Prior to scoring a fifty in the first-ever women’s Test match at Lord’s, Harman had scored one fifty in T20Is and two half-centuries in ODIs at the iconic venue.

Star opening batter Smriti Mandhana has scored one Test fifty and one ODI fifty at Lord’s, but her highest T20I score at the Home of Cricket is 38 runs.

In men’s cricket, multiple Indian batters have scored 50-plus scores in Test and ODI matches at Lord’s, but only Yuvraj Singh managed to score a fifty for India in a T20I at the Home of Cricket. However, he never got a chance to play a Test match for India at Lord’s and thus finished his international career without a fifty in all three formats at the iconic cricket ground in London.

Apart from being the first Indian to score a fifty in all three formats of the game at Lord’s, Harman is also the first female cricketer to achieve the feat. No other female cricketer had managed to do so because the ongoing India-England match is the first-ever women’s Test to be played at Lord’s.

In men’s cricket, former Sri Lanka captains Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene have scored fifties in all three formats at Lord’s and are joined by Pakistan’s Younis Khan.

Interestingly, no English player has so far managed to score a fifty in all three formats of the game at Lord’s.