Smriti Mandhana
Smriti Mandhana Fastest Century in ODI: The bat of Indian women’s cricket team’s opening batsman Smriti Mandhana is speaking loudly. Smriti Mandhana scored a stormy century in the third and last ODI match of the ODI series being played against Ireland in Rajkot. Mandhana completed her century in just 70 balls and with this created a new record in the history of women’s ODI cricket. Mandhana has achieved the feat of scoring the fastest century in women’s ODI cricket for India. With this he broke Harmanpreet’s record of fastest century by a huge margin. Earlier, Harmanpreet had scored a century in 87 balls in the ODI match against South Africa in the year 2024.
This is the 10th century of Smriti Mandhana’s ODI career. With this, the Indian opening batsman has become the first Indian woman cricketer to score 10 centuries in the history of ODI cricket. Not only this, she has become the fourth player in the world to score 10 or more centuries in the history of women’s ODI cricket.
Most centuries in women’s ODI
- 15 – Meg Lanning
- 13 – Suzy Bates
- 10 – Tammy Beaumont
- 10 – Smriti Mandhana
This is Mandhana’s 8th 50+ score in her 10th consecutive innings. From this it can be estimated how excellent form she is in. In this entire series, Mandhana is getting tremendous support from young opening batsman Pratika Rawal. In this third ODI, there has been a partnership of more than 200 runs between the two for the first wicket.
Fastest century for India in Women’s ODI (in terms of balls)
- 70 – Smriti Mandhana vs Ireland, Rajkot, 2025
- 87 – Harmanpreet Kaur vs South Africa, Bengaluru, 2024
- 90 – Harmanpreet Kaur vs Australia, Derby, 2017
- 90 – Jemimah Rodrigues vs Ireland, Rajkot, 2025
- 98 – Harleen Deol vs West Indies, Vadodara, 2024
Mandhana returned to the pavilion after scoring 135 runs in 80 balls. In this stormy century innings, he hit 7 skyscraper sixes and 12 fours. In this way, he equaled the record of hitting most sixes for India in ODI cricket. Now Mandhana and Harmanpreet have equal number of 52 sixes each. During this innings, Mandhana overtook Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry in scoring the most runs in women’s ODI cricket. Mandhana now has 4195 runs in 97 ODI matches while Perry has scored 4185 runs.
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