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Key Takeaways
- 1📊 Harmanpreet has led MI to two WPL titles
- 2🏆 First-time final win over a Meg Lanning-led powerhouse
- 3💡 Focus shifted from participation to pure winning mindset
- 4🔮 MI culture could redefine India’s big-match mentality
"The India captain has credited the WPL for reshaping her leadership and sharpening her winning instinct"
Harmanpreet Kaur has quietly become the standard-bearer of a new era in Indian women’s cricket, turning Mumbai Indians into the blueprint of a ruthless, results-first culture in the WPL.
From near-misses with India to serial success at MI
For years, Harmanpreet carried the scars of big-match heartbreaks with Team India – finals lost, opportunities slipped, campaigns that ended one step short. The narrative shifted dramatically once she took over Mumbai Indians in the Women’s Premier League.
As captain of the two-time WPL champions, Harmanpreet has channelled those disappointments into something sharper: an obsession with winning and handling pressure moments. At MI, she finally broke through one of the biggest mental barriers in the women’s game – beating a dominant, Meg Lanning-led side in a final, and doing it with composure rather than chaos.
This is where her new mantra took shape: a dressing room where “participation” is not a badge of honour, only winning is.
"Wherever I go, I want to see people only think about how we can win… if you go with a winning mindset and work towards that, it can bring a lot of things to you and your country." — Harmanpreet Kaur
Harmanpreet now speaks the language of legacy. For her, MI is more than a franchise; it is a live, functioning example of the mindset she wants to see across Indian women’s cricket — players comfortable under lights, in finals, against giants.
If this culture truly spreads from MI to the national side, Indian fans may finally see those painful “almost” stories replaced by trophy lifts – Harmanpreet at the centre of both.
