From unheard to unforgettable: How Harmanpreet Kaur forced India to pay attention

Before the 2017 ODI World Cup, journalist-turned-broadcaster Gaurav Kalra led a media training session for the women’s cricket team in Mumbai. In an ecosystem rife with clichés like ‘trust the process’ and ‘control the controllables’, Kalra was tasked with helping the women get comfortable with media engagements, pushing them to be honest about their stories and journeys so their own lives inspire at least one other. 

Kalra remembers Harmanpreet eagerly raising her hand to say, “ Sir, aap bol to rahe ho ki apni story bataon, par koi sunna hi nahin chahta” (Sir, you’re asking us to tell our stories, but no one wants to listen).

Gaurav Kalra leads a media training session ahead of the 2017 ODI World Cup. | Photo Credit: Gaurav Kalra

Life for the ecosystem nine years on looks starkly different. India has become a force to reckon with, taking its place among the game’s competitive (and not just monetary) elite. It enters tournaments among the favourites. Its players are household names now, not just in India, but also in pockets abroad where some feature regularly on the franchise circuit. 

The roots of this new era of the women’s game can be traced back to this eager 28-year-old (relatively) newly appointed full-time T20I captain. She forced people to stop and listen, eventually becoming the protagonist of the vertical’s most cherished chapter (so far). 

Taking space

“ Sardaran hai. Ladne ki thaakat toh uski khoon mein hai” (She’s a sardarni, that fighting spirit is in her blood) - this is former chief selector of the Indian national team Neetu David’s first adjective for Harmanpreet. Fighting is a three-act phenomenon in the life of this maverick from Moga, Punjab. 

First, there was the fight to play.

Young Harmanpreet was a sports buff, playing anything and everything she could. She even tried hockey, where the stick and ball ultimately became part of a game of cricket, much to her school teacher’s chagrin. “ Bohot mushkil se bacchon ko cricket se hockey tak le aaye hai hum. Aap yeh na karein (It’s taken a lot to get kids to pivot from cricket to hockey. Don’t do this now),” she once cheekily recalled. 

“ Pehle hi dekha ki jo log six marte hain, unki bohot value hai (It was evident to me very early on that those who hit sixes, their value is a lot higher),” Harmanpreet said of her formative days in the sport. Her coach Kamaldeesh Pal Singh Sodhi spotted heroics of the sort watching her smack the ball while playing with a group of boys. He didn’t know if she was a boy or a girl, given her long locks were tied up in the trademark sikh high bun. 

Young Harman only knew the bat and ball in her hands. She knew not of any pathways of progress, or what would come of her life should she stick with cricket and nothing else. The 80s and 90s had no women’s cricket on television, so there were no ambitions for her to soak off a screen. 

But Sodhi did and he saw what Harmanpreet would mean for the sport if she could extrapolate the raw spunk he saw into enduring legend. So did her father Harmandar Singh Bhullar. Given his own sporting success at state level, he wanted his daughter to go past him and clinch the honour of donning an India jersey some day. All when his daughter did not even know of the existence of the women’s side. 

Sodhi built a women’s team around Harmanpreet and she repaid the faith by eventually building a new culture of excellence which ultimately led her and her pack to the sport’s biggest podium. 

Simple pleasures

Former India international Soniya Dabir’s earliest memory of Harmanpreet is one from the manual - a six she hit in the U-19 inter-zonal match in Pune. She was the local manager then. 

“That was the first time I saw a player at that level hit such a long six. She could smack sixes at will and the difference was immediately apparent in the stance, the backlift… She decides ki abhi aane wala hai and we prepare,” Soniya says. 

In a domestic Challenger series, the pair were teammates and eventually even became roommates during the 2010 T20 World Cup in the West Indies. 

Harmanpreet Kaur and Soniya Dabir were first teammates in a domestic Challenger series. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

That Harmanpreet was naive, untouched by the burdens of spotlight and just grateful to make cricket her life’s fulcrum. She would happily eat the same food regularly, diligently follow workout regimes on repeat and also, unfortunately for Soniya, play the same song on loop for days on end. 

“I would keep a lot of songs loaded on my phone, but hers had just one song called Tere Liye. For almost 12-16 hours, she would play it. I had enough eventually. There were no Hindi channels in the Windies at the time.”

“She had a routine she followed strictly. She prayed everyday, she did her things a certain way. It stopped for nothing, no one and no result. She used to be able to switch off really well. Kuch carry forward nahi hota tha pichle match ka (Nothing carried forward from one match to another) . That was a good thing, to take each day for what it is.” Fifteen years later, that very trait would help Harmanpreet bhangra her way towards the ODI World Cup trophy before a manic crowd at the D.Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on a dewy November night. 

Legendary Indian legspinner Neetu David, who was the chair of selectors when India reached the One-Day zenith, fondly remembers the Punjaban who took on Railways in the domestic circuit. 

“Back then, the Indian Railways was as good as the Indian national side,” Neetu says. “The way she fearlessly tackled out bowlers and as good as led the batting effort made us feel like this girl would go places and maybe even captain India someday.” 

Neetu David (left) was the chair of selectors when India won the 2025 ODI World Cup under Harmanpreet Kaur’s captaincy. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI

After getting employed by the Western Railways, Harmanpreet – who now can’t venture out into any street in India without being mobbed – would sprint through streets to catch the Mumbai local, shuttling between work and training at Bandra Kurla Complex. She unabashedly admits to sitting on Diana Edulji’s head to get exemptions sanctioned so her stomach wouldn’t kill her heart’s desires. 

Diana’s condition was clear: help Railways win the domestic tournament first. The rest eventually fell into place. 

Purnima Rau (left) first selected Harmanpreet for an exposure tour of Australia in 2007. | Photo Credit: PTI

Unending hunger

From here, Harmanpreet realised just how much ‘change’ would come to define her chapter in Indian cricket. She moved from the Railways to Punjab Police to be able to be closer to home. The Women’s Big Bash League came calling in 2016 when she became the first Indian to feature in an overseas league, having signed with Sydney Thunder.

It reinforced a love affair with the systems Down Under that began in the late 2000s when she and M.D. Thirushkamini were sent for an exposure trip there. 

Former India captain Purnima Rau, who had selected her for that tour in 2007, took charge as head coach in 2014, two years after Harmanpreet had stepped up in the absence of an injured Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami to lead India to the first of what would eventually be four Asia Cup triumphs. 

“She was a very raw, energetic kid who was very hungry for knowledge. That ambition was evident in her eyes,” she says.

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Bring up Harman and her thoughts go back to an earnest 26-year-old who stayed back for advice after the dressing room had cleared post a series win against New Zealand. 

“I am usually the last one to get out of the dressing room or the team bus so I can check if players have left anything behind. One such day, I found Harman standing there. She held my hand and said, “Ma’am, I want to do much better than what I’ve done. What should I do?”” Purnima remembers being asked. 

She recalls copious notes on technique, on how she urged Harman to be audacious on the front foot and tweak her elbow placement to extend her field of strokemaking.  

In Purnima, the evangelist Harmanpreet would eventually become for Indian cricket found her first believer. Both agreed on one fundamental element - India was talented enough and gutsy enough to win not one ICC title, but three. This was without the Women’s Premier League, little to no media attention and a system that made it a point to tell the girls they were good, but just not good enough. 

A disappointing home T20 World Cup campaign, where India sank in the group stage, meant India found itself increasingly jaded by Mithali’s steady, risk-free brand of leadership. Harmanpreet’s aggressive, unbending style of batting was already turning heads. It wasn’t long before Mithali made way for her deputy in the shortest format. 

But all of that would be eclipsed by a superhuman effort in Derby in the 2017 ODI World Cup, a monstrous knock that would lay the foundations of ‘Harmonster’ as she would come to be called, and a particular penchant for treating the world’s most decorated and dangerous side - Australia - like a puppy slinging around a rope toy. 

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Harman vs the odds

That unbeaten 171, which both made and, many times, broke Harmanpreet has to be among the most documented knocks in the history of the game. Like a raging Spanish bull, a red-faced and hungry Harmanpreet hacked Australia down.

For Purnima, however, it was Harman’s effort 149 days prior to that knock that has her respect. 

“Everytime I’ve coached a side, I gave my captains a book when they won a series. Mithali got seven books from me. Harman got one, for the ICC qualifier before the 2017 World Cup. One by Shiv Khera,” she remembers.

Chasing 245 for victory against South Africa in the final, India needed eight runs off the last two balls. Harmanpreet, the stand-in skipper, smacked the ball over the midwicket ropes and then ran two to send her dugout into a tizzy at the P. Sara Oval in the heart of Colombo. 

“She fought with the last wicket (Rajeshwari Gayakwad). That six she hit sums up everything about her. Forget her captaincy. She did well, that’s a given. But for me, as a player, tagda thi wahan pe (She was tough),” Purnima declares. 

Harmanpreet Kaur received a book from Purnima Rau for her innings in the final of the World Cup qualifiers against South Africa. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

2017’s big high and equally ravenous low came and went, but what remained was the adulation and then fascination of the general public, all waiting for the next big news from this bunch. 

Unfortunately, the squad served rotten meat to vultures waiting to feast and from singlehandedly sculpting a memorable pièce de résistance, Harman suddenly became the face of one of the biggest controversies to rock the system. A bitter tussle for power which involved leaks and snide comments and much in between saw Harmanpreet and Mithali on two sides of what looked like an irreparably torn national side.

The 2018 T20 World Cup became the battleground. 

Facing England in the semifinal, skipper Harman made a temerarious decision to drop Mithali for the knockout fixture. Mithali had batted in just two games in that campaign, scoring 50s on both occasions. She picked up a knee injury and didn’t feature in India’s 48-run group stage win against Australia. Harman defended her decision saying she wanted to stick to a winning combination. 

Things, however, didn’t go as planned, with India folding for 112 in 19.2 overs, its last eight wickets falling for just 23 runs. England didn’t blink as it sealed an eight-wicket win. 

“Whatever we decided, we decided for the team. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, no regrets. I’m proud of the way my girls played through the tournament,” she said defiantly then. But the apple cart had been blown to smithereens. 

The fallout of this incident added to an already tumultuous time for the side, with two coaches – Purnima and Tushar Arothe – finding themselves out of the scheme of things rather unceremoniously, documented to be at the behest of the players. Ramesh Powar, earlier an ally to Harmanpreet, was also shown the door, not once but twice. W.V. Raman, too, was not retained, and with no explanation. 

Harmanpreet Kaur, Jhulan Goswami, Mithali Raj and Smriti Mandhana at the launch of the Indian Test kit in 2021. | Photo Credit: PTI

Team first

Raman unenviably walked into a broken dressing room masquerading as a team. 

“Harmanpreet was obviously hurt, and she felt she was blamed for no fault of hers about a lot of things that happened before. It’s very easy for us to live in the past. I sat them both down and said I didn’t intend to go back there. Let’s try and start with a clean slate.”

He pushed Harman to be large-hearted and focus on the time she has to leave her imprint behind as captain and player. 

“I told her that she needed to try and make an identity for herself. Of course, she had been doing that as a player but for her to make an impact as captain, she couldn’t afford to be distracted by the past or by how people outside were trying to box her in. At some point, I even read an interview where she said she contemplated leaving the game. Fortunately, she carried on,” he says. 

Harman was not one for diplomacy and Raman cites that as one of her attributes he values the most. 

“A lot of things have been said about her for the simple reason she just spoke her mind. She did not have the finesse like some of her predecessors to try and convey things in such a manner. No matter what the implications were, no matter what people might think about her decisions, she came across as somebody who did things the way she felt she needed to do. Perhaps, that’s not something people always look at kindly. But that is Harman for you. It’s always good for people to be different, or the world would be a very boring place,” he shrugs.  

WV Raman (left) and Harmanpreet Kaur formed a productive partnership as coach and captain of the Indian team. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Photo Library

The musical chairs in leadership positions is an Indian cricket staple, particularly in the women’s game. Purnima remembers how friends quickly became foes as selectors rolled in and rolled out ‘one series captains’ in their blind quest for results, which is why she underlines that permanence as the enduring legacy of both these players. 

“Stability is important for any captain,” Mithali says. “But a long tenure also has to come with accountability. You have to keep assessing whether the team is progressing and whether the captain is still the right person for the next phase.”

“Harman had that time, and there were different phases to her tenure, good and difficult. But that continuity allowed her to shape the team in her own way. That is ultimately the value of giving a captain a long rope,” she adds.

Breeding belief

In the eight years that passed, Harmanpreet first defined her (in capital letters) side as one that could enter tournaments as favourites, that could give Australia and England a run for their money. 

India’s march to the final in the 2020 T20 World Cup was imperious. The campaign was propped on the captain’s unflinching faith in the prodigious abilities of a 16-year-old Shafali Verma. However, like it had many times before, India’s ambitious castles were watered down by the mighty Aussies, with nearly 90,000 people watching at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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“It would have been the perfect gift if we were to win on that day because it was played on her birthday. That was not to be, unfortunately. It would have kept the side going through the COVID-19 pandemic which followed for a year and a half right after. That was a challenging phase,” Raman reminisces. 

“Maybe it was the early stages of her captaincy or the fact that India was so near yet so far all the time… That victory could have perhaps proved to the world that they’re capable of winning a World Cup, that she is capable of winning a World Cup. And that’s something that she wanted for the team to do because India was always looked upon as an entity that didn’t have the wherewithal to win the World Cup. She wanted to change that. A lot of things were riding on that particular final. So it was a bit frustrating.”

A T20 World Cup title proved a step too far for India in 2020. | Photo Credit: AP

This was around the time calls for a women’s Indian Premier League were growing increasingly louder. Losses saw even board officials lament about not having sufficient talent to stage a league. Harman credits former BCCI secretary Jay Shah for breaking that cycle, breaking the unending chase the women’s team was set on to first achieve before having the guts to ask for foundational sporting architecture.

Another opportunity presented itself in 2023. Once again, Australia stood in India’s way and would eventually push India back like a bully cordoning off privileged territory. An unfortunate run out involving Harmanpreet and some stinging yet nonchalant criticism from new captain Alyssa Healy triggered the makings of a memorable rivalry to spice up a vertical bedrotting in the lull of Meg Lanning – its most decorated commander – shockingly calling time on her international career. 

The group stage exit in the 2024 T20 World Cup, by their own admission, hurt the side the most. Systems were changing. The Women’s Premier League had turned two. Harmanpreet and Smriti Mandhana, her eventual successor, had won the first two editions. With new coach Amol Muzumdar, experiments and fresh perspectives were the Women in Blue’s oxygen. But the side returned from the arid Emirati deserts with their tails tucked between their legs. 

A desolate Harmanpreet, spacing out at the post-match presentation after yet another gutsy fight against Australia, became the image of that dismal campaign. That perhaps explains why the tears were so unaesthetically raw in 2025, when India overcame the mighty Aussies before a raucous home crowd in the semifinal in Navi Mumbai. 

When Jemimah Rodrigues and Amanjot Kaur brought India home, Harmanpreet sat with trenches for creaselines on her forehead in the dugout, Smriti hugging her as they saw victory inch closer. As Smriti led the entourage out to embrace a tired and emotionally broken Jemimah, Harmanpreet roared away into the dugout, with Deepti Sharma and Muzumdar enveloping her from either side. 

She might have enjoyed one single song on loop for days on end all those years ago in the West Indies, but she was tired of taunts, disbelief, “go back to the kitchen” jibes. History repeated herself. Once, Harman validated the aspirations her father and coach saw for her. On October 30, 2025, Harman’s team realised hers. The coronation a few days later, the unquestionable cementing of her legacy, may have taken some doing, but was a mere formality. 

India’s own angry, young woman

Amitabh Bachchan popularised the trope of the angry, young man in Indian cinema, allegorical of the mood of the nation then. Harman became that symbol for the women’s game. Remember how she rained down on poor 19-year-old Deepti when she almost ran Harman, then on 98, out. Evidently, Harman was not hunting the ton, but the win. The pair hugged and made up soon after and India clinched that epochal win. 

That same Deepti she reduced to tears in Derby had Harman’s complete backing at Lord’s in 2022, when she ran out Charlie Dean at the non-striker’s end which helped India seal 3-0 ODI series sweep.

When asked, Harman snapped back at why the other nine wickets weren’t as interesting to talk about before unequivocally stating, “I will back my player. She’s not done something which isn’t in the rules. It shows our awareness.”

Little under a year later, Bangladesh faced Harmanpreet’s wrath enough for her to become a yardstick for bad behaviour for the system there. Stumps were smashed, nasty things were said, umpires were accused of favouring the home side and a prompt two-match ban was slapped on the Indian skipper too. 

Harman, consistency personified, quietly served the ban without an ounce of regret. “I don’t think I said anything wrong to any player or any person. I just said what happened on the field. I don’t regret anything,” she said later. 

That unbridled anger is something Raman remembers from his early days with the mercurial (now) former Indian skipper. 

“In the run-up to the 2020 World Cup, there was a murmur in the side. The girls were a little scared, a bit peeved by Harman giving everyone a piece of her mind. One of our warm-up games was rained out, so I sat her down and began talking about a couple of other captains. Harman knows me to be direct and was a little puzzled by why I was beating around the bush and asked me in so many words. 

“I then told her that different captains have different methodologies but this cannot be a system of top-down management all the time. It might not always work. She needed to do what was possible to get the best out of her teammates. 

“I suggested that if she wanted to let loose, we could nominate a player for every game to be her punching bag (not literally, of course) and we’ll get on with it. She slept over it and came back back and said there was merit in what I said. Things then suddenly changed. She hardly said anything on the field.”

“Players came raising issues with that too and all I said was, ‘You can’t complain about everything.’ Harman controlled was better than her letting loose,” he quips. 

Legacy and a wheel that refuses to break

A year is a long time. India soaked in the hysteria of a World title far too many thought would never arrive. Soon, it was time for another World Cup, but a disastrous campaign in 2026 and another group stage exit followed. 

Harmanpreet Kaur’s captaincy record: 211 games across formats

Wins: 126

Win percentage: 59.72% (the highest for an Indian women’s captain)

A now 37-year-old Harman, with diminishing returns with the bat, could not fight the pendulum swinging towards Smriti, long understood to be India’s captain-in-waiting and in the form of her life. The 30-year-old growing increasingly vocal of her ability and willingness to lead the nation only fanned a flame that needed no help spreading.

That image from 2025, the camaraderie from the ones before that, all seemingly made way for subtle distances that rabid fanbases of both players frothed at the mouth to blow up online. 

Speculation was building about Smriti Mandhana taking over from Harmanpreet before her decision to step down was announced. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI

In early October, images emerged on an Assamese news portal of Harman and Smriti in Guwahati with BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia. A day later, Harmanpreet announced her decision to step down from Indian captaincy. 

This is a woman who jumped up for the World Cup-sealing match with an injury in her left knee. The same woman who played that 171 knock with a dislocated finger had to be held back by the team doctor from venturing out for the second innings despite severe dehydration. Somehow, though, the words of her resignation felt loaded with far more pain.

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There is an interview with Harmanpreetwhere she describes how the balance and make of the bat doesn’t matter, but the grip does. If it doesn’t feel like she has full control, it ruins the full experience. Now, the grip has been yanked away. 

For a Punjabi girl growing up on a sporting diet, the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics was the perfect carrot to push her ageing and hurting body through a few summers for that one coveted gold medal. She comes from a hockey and athletics hotbed and a State that values Olympic golds like divinity. She still has a shot at it, but not as the bird leading the migration. She won the fight to play and the fight for collective belief. But she couldn’t prolong the fight to lead. 

Paisa and pyaar

Harmanpreet’s journey cannot be detached from the financial whirlwind that has embraced the women’s ecosystem. Noopur Kashyap, her manager, has seen Harman’s “value’ grow into a bankable commercial face for big brands. 

“In 2017, women’s cricket was still emerging. Viewership was still quite limited. We began with digital campaigns so she could at least be seen,” Noopur explains. 

Harman got a lot of webinars around the lockdowns and that gave her team the confidence that people want to hear what she has to say. That translated to on-ground events and activations and eventually to big brand deals, the arc hitting its peak right after the 2025 ODI World Cup. When Navi Mumbai woke up to continue ringing in India’s triumph barely five hours after the final, Harman had already been named brand ambassador for real estate firm Omaxe Ltd.

Harman loves a photoshoot but the larger world of brand engagements was alien territory for her for quite a while. 

“For her to be at a shoot for eight hours would be draining, with the lights, arrangement and people. But send her to a cricket field for as long and she’d be totally fine. That shift came about with the WPL. It taught players to balance training and matches with shoots thanks to how advertising and appearances are coded into franchise operations,” she explains.

Noopur stepped in for Harman at a time when the math involved in being a ‘brand’ in sports left her utterly confused. The fear of being misled or cheated was there too and since then, Noopur has been Harman’s firewall. Over the years, a girl who was once mistaken for a boy now loved seeing herself on posters, cover shoots and ad films.

Noopur sees this next phase of her career as an opportunity for Harman to finally make her life’s favourite thing – cricket – about herself. 

“Harman’s never been one to have a big circle. You won’t see her doing dinners, outings etc very often. She has missed out on all this and wants to experience it all. She’s drawn her legacy. She also wants to be more socially available. Captaincy and its responsibilities came with several personal restrictions. Even going home was a challenge. She lives away from her parents to be close to an airport so she can report for duty anytime. Those are things she will be able to address now,” she says.

In the 2025 final, after a job well done, Harmanpreet running to her father and Bhullar lifting her up like she was five again was among the unforgettable frames of that triumph. It was anything but just the adrenaline from the night, Noopur suggests. 

Harmanpreet running to her father and Bhullar lifting her up like she was five again was among the unforgettable frames of India’s World Cup triumph.  | Photo Credit: JioHotstar screen grab

“Harman comes from a very simple, non-city background. She wants time with her family. Her parents are getting older. She watched her sister’s wedding on video call. Both her siblings stay abroad. She doesn’t talk about all this but it really matters. It’s why that hug with her dad after the final means so much. That’s what she misses.”

Epilogue

This exercise of documenting Harman the captain might seem like an end-of-career tribute piece. It’s perhaps inevitable considering how much of Harman’s life in this sport has gone into taking the lead in some form.

“Captaincy suited her. She wanted things to happen all the time and wanted the team to win. It suited her personality and her mindset. She’s been a captain all along. She now has a chance to show what kind of a leader she can be. It’s time to create an ever bigger legacy,” Raman says. 

“Captaincy does add pressure, because you are thinking about the team even when you are batting. But I wouldn’t put Harman’s batting inconsistency entirely down to captaincy. She has always had periods of outstanding batting and periods when she hasn’t been as consistent, even before she became the all-format captain,” Mithali explains. 

“What captaincy does is add another layer to that. When you are not scoring, you are answering questions about both your batting and your leadership. Now she doesn’t have that additional responsibility. So she has the opportunity to concentrate on her batting and let her performances speak for her,” she adds.

Harman has been the genesis of the rule of fitness and form in this ecosystem and now stands consumed by the very frameworks she cemented in place. 

Smriti Mandhana (left) will take over from Harmanpreet as India captain. | Photo Credit: JioHotstar screen grab

She was part of a side that is infamously reported to have pushed for a male coach – which led to Purnima’s sacking. But she is now part of a franchise setup that has always championed women in the coaching staff, from Charlotte Edwards and Lisa Keightley to India’s own Jhulan Goswami and Devika Palshikar. 

It’s been a long vigil for an unapologetic servant of the game, who now finally has the space and reason to fire up this next chapter just for herself. As one of her early coaches told Harman (as documented in Sidhanta Patnaik and Karunya Keshav’s “T he Fire Burns Blue”), “No bowler can get you out unless you want to get out. Everything is in the mind.” 

Chardi Kala, Harmanpreet. 

“Apart from the World Cup title, she’s won so many Test matches for India as captain. That’s an equally good record. India, for the longest time, didn’t play Tests. It’s not easy to win these against England and Australia when you’re leading a side in all three formats. Winning that Test match at Lord’s after exiting the T20 World Cup, where they had to sit and watch other teams get through the end and push for a win in the Lord’s Test, was incredible. Credit to her for that record too!”