Smriti Mandhana broke her third world record within 9 days, a big miracle in T20I cricket.
Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma
Smriti Mandhana scored 3 consecutive 50+ scores in a T20I series: Indian women’s cricket team’s opening batsman Smriti Mandhana is in great form at the moment. By scoring a brilliant century in the last ODI on Australia tour, Smriti Mandhana broke the world record of scoring most centuries in a calendar year. She became the first female cricketer in the world to score maximum 4 ODI centuries in a calendar year. After finishing the Australia tour, the Indian team returned home and started the T20I series against West Indies. From the very first match of this series, Smriti Mandhana continued to attack with the bat and played a brilliant inning of 54 runs. Even after this his bat did not calm down and scored another brilliant half-century in the second T20I match. Although she could not make Team India win in this match, she broke a big world record. By scoring her second consecutive half-century, she became the player with the most number of half-centuries in women’s T20I cricket.
New history made with hat-trick of half-centuries
After scoring back to back half-centuries in the T20I series, Smriti Mandhana came to bat in the third match against West Indies and created a new history by scoring a hat-trick of half-centuries. He broke the third major world record within 9 days by scoring his third consecutive 50+ score in the 3-match T20I series. Smriti Mandhana has now become the first female cricketer in the world to score the highest score of 50+ in Women’s T20I matches. Mandhana now has thirty 50+ scores to her name in T20I cricket. Earlier this record was in the name of New Zealand’s Suzy Bates.
Mandhana is the second female Indian cricketer after Mithali Raj to score three consecutive fifties in T20Is. Not only this, she has become the second Indian cricketer (overall in both men’s and women’s categories) after Virat Kohli to score three consecutive 50+ scores in a T20I series.
Highest 50+ score in Women’s T20I matches
- 30* – Smriti Mandhana (India)
- 29 – Suzie Bates (New Zealand)
- 25 – Beth Mooney (Australia)
- 22 – Sophie Devine (New Zealand)
- 22 – Stafanie Taylor (West Indies)
Second highest run scoring batsman
28 year old Smriti Mandhana made her T20 International debut for the Indian team in 2013. Since then, she has become an important link in the batting of Team India. He has so far scored 3761 runs in 148 T20 International matches for India. She is the second highest run-scorer in Women’s T20 International. Mandhana has so far scored 30 half-centuries in T20I cricket. During this period his average has been around 30 and strike rate has been more than 123.
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