IND vs SA : Smriti Mandhana scored a century in the second match of the 3-match ODI series between the Indian women’s cricket team and South Africa. This was her second consecutive century in the series. She became the player with the most centuries as an Indian women cricketer, jointly with Mithali Raj.
The second match of the series was played in Bengaluru on Wednesday (19 June), in which Mandhana scored a century in 103 balls. During this, she hit 12 fours and 1 six. In this innings, Mandhana scored a total of 136 runs in 120 balls. During this, she hit 18 fours and 2 sixes.
In response to the target of 326 runs, the African team batted brilliantly, but could not win the match. Captain Laura Wolvaardt played an unbeaten innings of 135 runs for Africa. While Marizanne Kapp scored 114 runs. Due to this, the African team scored 321 runs for 6 wickets, but lost the match by 4 runs. Pooja Vastrakar and Deepti Sharma took 2-2 wickets each.
Smriti Mandhana becomes first Indian woman cricketer to score two consecutive ODI centuries
Smriti Mandhana became the first Indian woman cricketer to score two consecutive ODI centuries. Mandhana is the first Asian woman cricketer to score consecutive ODI centuries, while New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite leads the list with four consecutive centuries in 2016-17.
Mandhana is sixth in the list of highest run-scorers among women openers in ODIs. With her seventh century, Mandhana reached joint third position in the list of openers with most centuries in this format.
However, the record for most centuries in international cricket is held by Australian star Meg Lanning, who has scored 15 centuries in 103 matches. After her, New Zealand’s Suzie Bates is at second place, who has scored 13 centuries. Apart from these two players, no one has scored more than 10 centuries. 27-year-old Mandhana can also make this record of scoring the most centuries.