Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 23 (ANI): India Ladies opener Smriti Mandhana rewrote document books as she levelled with legendary Australia batter Meg Lanning for many worldwide cricket centuries, and with South Africa’s Tazmin Brits for most ladies’s ODI tons in a single calendar 12 months through the ICC Ladies’s World Cup match in opposition to New Zealand Ladies at DY Patil Cricket Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Thursday.
Mandhana has equalled Lanning for essentially the most centuries in girls’s worldwide cricket, with each gamers now holding 17 tons every. Mandhana’s tally consists of 14 centuries in One-Day Internationals (ODIs), two in Exams, and one in Ladies’s T20 Internationals (T20Is). Compared, Lanning’s document includes 15 centuries in ODIs and two in T20Is.
The left-hand batter is now the main run-getter within the match, with 331 runs in six innings at a mean of 55.16, a strike fee of over 100, a century and two fifties every.
The southpaw continued to dominate girls’s cricket with exceptional consistency, matching South Africa’s Tazmin Brits for essentially the most centuries in a calendar 12 months. Each gamers have scored 5 tons of in 2025, whereas Mandhana had registered 4 centuries in 2024.
Within the all-time listing for many tons of in Ladies’s One-Day Internationals (ODIs), Australia’s Meg Lanning leads with 15 centuries, adopted by Mandhana with 14. New Zealand’s Suzie Bates stands third with 13, whereas England’s Tammy Beaumont and Nat Sciver-Brunt observe with 12 and 10 centuries respectively.
India Ladies’s vice-captain has set a brand new benchmark for power-hitting in girls’s cricket, recording essentially the most sixes in a calendar 12 months in Ladies’s One-Day Internationals (WODIs). With 29 sixes in 2025, the 29-year-old participant surpassed South Africa’s Lizelle Lee, who struck 28 maximums in 2017. The third spot is shared by West Indies’ Deandra Dottin, South Africa’s Chloe Tryon, and Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu, every having hit 21 sixes in a single 12 months — Dottin in 2013, Tryon in 2017, and Athapaththu in 2023.
Mandhana is the second India Ladies batter with three consecutive 50-plus scores in ODI World Cups after Harmanpreet Kaur, who did that in 2017.
Mandhana and Pratika Rawal have joined an elite listing in girls’s cricket, matching Australia’s legendary duo Belinda Clark and Lisa Keightley for essentially the most century partnerships in a calendar 12 months throughout all wickets. Each pairs have recorded five-century stands — Clark and Keightley attaining the feat in 2000, and Mandhana and Rawal replicating it in 2025. New Zealand’s Suzie Bates and Rachel Priest observe with 4 such stands in 2015, whereas South Africa’s Tazmin Brits and Laura Wolvaardt even have 4 in 2025.
By way of most century partnerships for opening pairs in Ladies’s One-Day Internationals (ODIs), Clark and Keightley lead the listing with 10 stands from 66 innings. Mandhana and Rawal are subsequent with seven century stands in simply 23 innings, equalling Australia’s Rachael Haynes and Alyssa Healy, in addition to South Africa’s pairs Tazmin Brits-Laura Wolvaardt and Lizelle Lee-Laura Wolvaardt, who even have seven every.
Rawal and Mandhana’s stand (212 runs) in opposition to the White Ferns is the very best partnership for the hosts in World Cups for any wicket, bettering the earlier greatest (184), which was between Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur in opposition to the West Indies Ladies in Hamilton in 2022. That is the primary occasion for Ladies in Blue and general third with each openers scoring a century in a girls’s World Cup match.
Pratika Rawal turned the joint-fastest to achieve 1,000 ODI runs (23 innings) within the historical past of the game. She at present has 1,123 runs in 23 innings at a mean of fifty.45, with two centuries and 7 fifties, greatest rating of 154. In six innings of the continuing World Cup at dwelling, the 25-year-old cricketer has 308 runs in six innings at a mean of 51.33, with a century, a fifty and a greatest rating of 122, the second-highest run-getter up to now.
Talking in regards to the recreation, India put up a commanding 340/3 in 49 overs of their ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025 conflict in opposition to New Zealand. Centuries from Pratika Rawal (122) and Smriti Mandhana (109) laid the muse for India’s robust first win, whereas Jemimah Rodrigues (76*) added additional momentum with a brisk knock to assist India put up their highest complete of the match up to now.
For New Zealand, Suzie Bates (1/40 in 7 overs), Amelia Kerr (1/69 in 10 overs) and Rosemary Mair (1/52 in 8 overs) claimed a wicket every. Nonetheless, India’s prime order proved too robust, serving to the hosts attain a formidable complete.
Temporary Scores: India Ladies 340/3 in 49 overs (Pratika Rawal 122, Smriti Mandhana 109; Suzie Bates 1/40) vs New Zealand Ladies. (ANI)
