Rajkot (Gujarat) [India], January 15 (ANI): Indian batter and stand-in captain Smriti Mandhana made historical past on Wednesday, smashing the quickest ODI century by an Indian ladies’s batter and changing into the first-ever Asian to smash 10 ODI centuries.
Mandhana reached these milestones throughout the third and closing ODI in opposition to Eire at Rajkot. She scored an explosive 135 runs in 80 deliveries with 12 fours and 7 sixes. Her runs got here at a strike charge of 168.75.
Her century in 70 balls is the quickest by an Indian ladies’s batter in ODIs, outdoing her common skipper Harmanpreet Kaur’s 87-ball century in opposition to South Africa at Bengaluru final yr. In males’s cricket, the quickest ODI ton by an Indian is within the arms of star batter Virat Kohli, who reached there in simply 52 balls in opposition to Australia in 2013.
Additionally, that is Smriti’s tenth ton, making her first-ever Asian batter to achieve this mark, with Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu (9 centuries) behind her. Forward of Mandhana are Australia’s Meg Lanning (15 centuries), New Zealand’s Suzie Bates (13 centuries) and England’s Tammy Beaumont (10 centuries).
7 sixes hit by Smriti Mandhana right now is the joint-most by an India Girls batter in an ODI innings, alongside Harmanpreet Kaur, who had hit as many throughout her 171 off 115 in opposition to Australia Girls within the 2017 World Cup semi-final. Mandhana has additionally equalled Harmanpreet for many sixes for India within the format (52).
Since 2024, Mandhana has smashed 996 runs in 16 ODIs at a mean of 62.25, with a strike charge of above 105.06, with 4 centuries and 5 fifties. His greatest rating is 136. No different batter has aggregated 700 runs on this timeframe within the format.
Total in ODIs, Smriti has made 4,209 runs in 97 matches and 97 innings at a mean of 46.25, with 10 centuries and 30 fifties. Her greatest rating is 136.
Coming to the match, India received the toss and opted to bat first. A partnership of 233 runs between Mandhana (135 in 80 balls, with 12 fours and 7 sixes) and Pratika Rawal (154 in 129 balls, with 20 fours and a six), a half-century from wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh (59 in 42 balls, with eight fours and a six) have been the important thing as India reached 435/5 of their 50 overs.
That is India’s highest rating throughout each males’s and girls’s ODIs, outdoing males’s complete of 418/5 in opposition to West Indies in 2011 during which Virender Sehwag hit 219 runs and complete of 370/5 by India ladies within the second ODI of this ongoing sequence in opposition to Eire, the place they made 370/5 due to a century from Jemimah Rodrigues and fifties from Mandhana, Rawal and Harleen Deol. (ANI)
