3 Women Cricket Stars as Potential Marvel Superheroes

Women’s Premier League 2024 is just around the corner and is set to start next week on Friday, February 23 with the tournament opener between Delhi Capitals Women and Mumbai Indians Women. A lot of talented women cricketers across the world are set to feature in this marquee franchise tournament.

However, these women cricketers are no less than the superwomen heroes who are seen in Hollywood movies or series for ardent cricket fans.

With said that, here we’ll have a look at the 3 women cricketers who can also be reimagined as the Marvel superheroes.

Smriti Mandhana – Wanda Maximoff

Star Indian opener Smriti Mandhana plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Women’s Premier League. She is undoubtedly one of the most adored and followed by cricket fans across the cricketing world. She also enjoys a massive fan following among young and enthusiastic cricket fans.

Mandhana is also the vice-captain of India’s Women’s Cricket team at the moment; she is known for playing crucial roles for Team India in difficult situations. She is just like Marvel Universe’s Wanda Maximoff owing to the latter’s power of telekinesis. With a resemblance to Wanda’s magic-creating abilities, Mandhana can also prove her mettle with her magical batting performances on the field.

Harmanpreet Kaur – Captain Marvel

The star Indian skipper and batting all-rounder Harmanpreet Kaur has been known as one of the most aggressive cricketers in women’s cricket. She also led the Indian team to clinch the gold medal in the Asian Games 2023 in the women’s cricket category, defeating Sri Lanka in the final match of the tournament.

Harmanpreet mostly resembles Marvel Universe’s Captain Marvel, considering the abilities like superhuman speed, strength, stamina, endurance and physical durability. The Indian captain has also similar abilities when she represents India on the field. The star all-rounder captains the team with an example from her performances.

Ellyse Perry – Black Widow

Ellyse Perry has been one of the iconic and remarkable cricketers in the current era of women’s cricket. She is considerably one of the greatest women’s cricketers who ever played the game. Notably, Perry has been one of the very few athletes who participated in world cups for Australia in two sports, namely cricket and football.

Perry’s intelligence is more or less similar to Marvel’s character of agent Black Widow. Just like Widow, the Aussie cricketing great is also capable of delivering on the field both with the bat and the ball.