The severe cramps hampered her running between the wickets as she came up with a different plan. "When initially I was running twos, I got a little cramp, after that the physio gave me medicine, and a little bit it settled down," she said.

"Then I thought instead of running too much, if I could I get more big shots — because you run too much, you get more cramps. Then I told Jemi [Jemimah Rodrigues], 'if you give the strike to me, I can go for more big shots'," the skipper revealed. Kaur, whose 171 against Australia in the ODI World Cup last year has become a stuff of legends, didn't know while batting that she had gone on to become first T20 centurion from the country.

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"I was not looking at how many runs I was getting, I was looking at how many we needed to win the game," Kaur said. "We knew they have really good batters, they have Sophie Devine and [Suzie] Bates, we knew if we scored just 150, we may not [win the game]," she added.

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