In honour of me having a good day (only 1 Accounts period) and being well-rested (pulled an all nighter day before and crashed yesterday for 16 hours), here are some of my favourite Hcs about Women's Cricket in random order about random ships and friendships
The one who gave Harman flowers after she came back to India in 2017 was Jemi (Harman had a tiny flashback to it when Jemi fell down crying after the 2025 Semis)
Smriti, Harman and Deepti spent some time after the 2025 finals, just cuddling because they still couldn't believe that they had done it...
Alyssa went and comforted Harman after the 2020 WC finals (can be gen or ship)
Smriti confessed to Ellyse
Shafali and Richa are besties who are the biggest gossips of the team (when they are joined by Shrey, they are worse)
Before she went and met the coach and captain, Shafali actually visited Pratika in her room in the 2025 WC and they actually ended up becoming good friends
(Pratika loves pranking people and because of her attitude and face no one believes that so she and Shafali bond over pranks)
Richa is an honorary bowler (she is invited to all the planning sessions as well as the no batters allowed drinking nights)
One of the standing punishments for bets among IWCT is to play one v one against Pratika (and get their asses handed to them as she flawlessly shoots a 3p)
Harman's father actually knows about her and Healy and thinks Healy is such a sweet girl and perfect for his Harman
Healy calls Harman 'preet' as a nickname and increases her use of it after she gets to know it's meaning
Before she and Ellyse started dating, Smriti sent a lot of pics with her and Jemi to Ellyse in hopes of making her jealous and finally confess
Ash and Smriti have a competition going on based on points (think Kagehina)
Harmanpreet and Alyssa are one of those couples who have either dated for like 10+ years before marrying or skip officially dating completely. No middle ground
All the captains organise an informal, closed-doors event for the players playing their 1st, 2nd or 3rd ICC event every tournament (it was started in the 1973 WC where all the captains decided that it would be better if the teams knew each other)
Jemimah Rodrigues and Sophie Molineux met this way and a 20 year old Sophie decided to take a 17 year old Jemi under her wings (they end up starting the Smerry bet with Smriti winning it)
Meg, Mithali and Jhulan are dating
Shanta Rangaswamy and Diana Edulji are the kind of couple who historians mistake as 'best friends' (Shanta is Aromantic and Diana and her are in a qpr)
Virat has Smriti's number and they both text each other the wackiest headlines they can find about each other (it is hilarious)
Pratika is IWCT best sledger
Harman and Smriti are referred to as 'Fun mom' and 'Strict mom' respectively in the Harmandhana gc (which includes Amol Mazumdar btw)
Amol Mazumdar is a huge gossip (and sometimes joins in with Shafali and Richa in their sessions)
Ashleigh Gardner pinned Smriti Mandhana to the wall as soon as she saw Smriti comment about 'taking her out for runs' and after a very sleepless night, Ash asked Smriti to take her out to dinner.
Harman bought an engagement ring for Alyssa right after the 2020 World Cup (when she skipped the victory celebrations and spent the night comforting Harman) and she gave it to Smriti right after because she didn't want to scare Alyssa and wanted to propose at the right time but knew if she had the ring, "marry me" would be the first words out of her mouth when she sees Alyssa
Phoebe and Jemi have a weird beef going on and neither the Aussies, nor the Indians know about it (It is a cover, they are besties and love seeing the confused reactions)
Aru x Jemi is She fell first (Aru) x She fell harder (Jemi) trope personified
I have so so many more but I need sleep @infinityinakiss @silvernitrate04 @hazlehoff what do you guys think abt this???















