The Punjab Cricket Affiliation will unveil two new stands in honour of India captain Harmanpreet Kaur and former all-rounder Yuvraj Singh in the course of the fourth T20I between India and South Africa in Mullanpur on December 11. Officiating PCA Secretary Siddhant Sharma confirmed the choice, calling it a tribute to 2 of Punjab’s most influential cricketers. Forward of the match on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Worldwide Cricket Stadium, Harmanpreet — who not too long ago led India to a historic ICC Girls’s World Cup triumph in Navi Mumbai on November 2 — can have a stand inaugurated in her title. One other stand might be devoted to Yuvraj, the two-time males’s World Cup winner whose profession stays one among Indian cricket’s most embellished.

“Harmanpreet Kaur might be honoured for her achievement in successful the World Cup and we have now introduced {that a} stand might be named after her. On the eleventh, in the course of the India–South Africa match, we’ll inaugurate it. Together with that, a stand named after our former participant and two-time World Cup champion, Yuvraj Singh, can even be inaugurated on the identical day,” Sharma informed IANS. Harmanpreet’s management throughout India’s breakthrough title — the nation’s first ICC trophy in ladies’s cricket — has been hailed as a defining second for the game. Yuvraj, in the meantime, stays one among India’s most iconic limited-overs performers, finest remembered for his Participant of the Event present on the 2011 World Cup and his six sixes in an over on the 2007 T20 World Cup. Sharma added that the PCA would additionally hand out the beforehand introduced money awards to Harmanpreet and Amanjot Kaur. “A stand being named after them is a tiny factor in comparison with the large feat that they’ve achieved for the nation. It is a small token from us to them in recognition of their achievements,” he informed IANS.

He believes the transfer will spur the following era. “The up-and-coming gamers will acquire inspiration from cricketers like Harmanpreet, Smriti Mandhana, and Jemimah. They’re those who inspire the younger women… We even have some surprises developing for everybody.”