Delhi: The recent performance of Indian team’s female player Smriti Mandhana has been excellent. She surprised everyone with her batting and scored a powerful century in the third match played against India and Ireland in Rajkot. Along with this, he also made many big records in his name.
Mandhana broke Harmanpreet’s record
Indian team’s star batsman Mandhana scored a century in the third ODI match being played against Ireland in Rajkot. Mandhana scored a century in just 70 balls, which is the fastest century scored by a batsman in women’s cricket for the Indian team. In this matter, Smriti left behind her team captain Harmanpreet Kaur, who had scored a century in 87 balls against South Africa last year.
Great innings played in T20 style
After scoring a century, Mandhana could not stay at the crease for long and lost her wicket. Orla Prendergast gave the team its first success by dismissing Mandhana. Mandhana scored 135 runs in 80 balls with the help of 12 fours and seven sixes. But, during this time his strike rate was worth seeing. He batted in a stormy manner with a strike rate of 168.75.
WELL PLAYED, SMRITI MANDHANA…!!!!
– 135 runs from just 80 balls, What a knock, dream series for her as a leader, in the World Cup year, Smriti is in her prime touch 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/AldUpndTfN
—Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) January 15, 2025
Fastest century by an Indian woman
| ball | batsman | versus | Year |
|---|
| 70 | Smriti Mandhana | ireland | 2025 |
| 87 | Harmanpreet Kaur | South Africa | 2024 |
| 90 | Harmanpreet Kaur | Australia | 2017 |
| 90 | jemima rodriguez | ireland | 2025 |
| 98 | Harleen Deol | west indies | 2024 |
Third biggest partnership for Indian team
Mandhana and Pratika Rawal gave a great start to the team and scored more than 200 runs in just 24 overs. While on one hand Mandhana’s bat was spitting fire, on the other hand, Raval also took his innings forward. There was a partnership of 233 runs between the two. This was the third biggest partnership for the Indian women’s team. The biggest partnership for India was between Poonam and Deepti, together they added 320 runs in the year 2017.
| Run | partner | versus | Year |
|---|
| 320 | Poonam-Deepti | ireland | 2017 |
| 258* | Mithali-Reshma | ireland | 1999 |
| 233 | Mandhana-Rawal | ireland | 2025 |
| 223* | Anjum-Jaya | Pakistan | 2005 |
| 190 | Mandhana-Rodriguez | New Zealand | 2019 |
First female Asian player to score 10 centuries
Smriti has scored this 10th century of her ODI career and has jointly become the third batsman to score the most centuries in the history of women’s ODI cricket. The record for scoring most centuries in the 50 over format among women is in the name of Meg Lanning who has scored 15 centuries. After this there is Suzie Bates who has scored 13 centuries in ODIs. At the same time, Mandhana has now come to third place in this list along with Tammy Beaumont.
🚨 THE HISTORICAL MOMENT 🚨
Smriti Mandhana, first Asian to complete 10 Hundreds in Women’s ODIs. pic.twitter.com/H8nrAT7o9e
—Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) January 15, 2025
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