Harmanpreet Kaur

The first woman cricketer to hit a T20 century and the first Indian cricketer to be signed by an overseas T20 franchise—Sydney Thunder in 2016—Harmanpreet Kaur was named the captain of the ICC's T20 team of the year in 2018. In October, this wiry six-hitting machine from Punjab became the first Indian cricketer to play 100 T20 internationals, when she took the field against South Africa. Her powerful hitting and her athletic fielding has extricated women's cricket out of gender stereotypes and conferred on her the stature of a gamechanger.