Smriti Mandhana’s amazing feat, boundaries hit on 7 consecutive balls, great record destroyed
Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodriguez
Smriti Mandhana: A big record was made during the third T20I match being played between India and West Indies in Navi Mumbai. Batting first, Team India’s acting captain Smriti Mandhana continued her excellent form and played an inning of 77 runs in 47 balls, due to which the team managed to score a huge score of 217 runs for four wickets in the series decider against West Indies. In this way Team India destroyed its own big record. This score of 217 runs against West Indies is the biggest score of Team India in women’s T2OI cricket. Team India scored this score breaking its own 6 month old record. Earlier in July this year, Team India had scored 201 runs by losing 5 wickets against UAE in Dambulla city of Sri Lanka.
Mandhana, who was leading the team in the absence of Harmanpreet Kaur, hit 13 fours and one six during her innings and scored her third consecutive half-century. During this, Mandhana also did a great feat of hitting 7 boundaries in 7 consecutive balls. Smriti Mandhana did the great feat of hitting 7 boundaries in 7 consecutive balls during the third and fourth overs. Mandhana hit 3 consecutive fours on the last 3 balls of the third over. After this, as soon as he got strike on the second ball of the fourth over, he hit a four, six, four and then a six.
Smriti Mandhana in this T20I series against West Indies
- 54 (33) in first T20I
- 62 (41) in 2nd T20I
- 77 (47) in 3rd T20I*
During this brilliant innings, Mandhana also completed 500 fours in T20I cricket. She became the second female cricketer to do so. Not only this, now she has also become the cricketer who has hit the most fours in Women’s T20I. He achieved this big milestone by defeating Suzy Bates.
Most fours in WT20I
- 506: Smriti Mandhana (142 innings)
- 505: Suzie Bates (168 innings)
- 439: Chamari Atapattu (141 innings)
- 409: Alyssa Healy (143 innings)
- 405: Meg Lanning (121 innings)
After Smriti Mandhana was out, Richa Ghosh played an inning of 54 runs in 21 balls with three fours and five sixes. She scored a half-century in 18 balls and equaled Sophie Devine’s record for the fastest half-century in women’s T20I cricket. Richa Ghosh has also equaled the records of KL Rahul and Suryakumar Yadav. KL and Surya had achieved the feat of scoring half-centuries in T20I in just 18 balls each.
