In the 4th T20I against Sri Lanka Women at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram, Smriti Mandhana Creates History. Now the question is, what record did Smriti Mandhana break to get herself in the history books of Women’s cricket? She became the fourth player in Women’s cricket history to score more than 10,000 international runs, and this is not it, as it is just the start.
Smriti Mandhana first made her debut for the Indian Women’s team in the T20I format, and it was against the Bangladesh team. Five days later, in the same series, she also made her ODI debut. It almost took her a year and a half from there to make her debut in the test format for India. She made her test debut against the England Women’s team, and it was in August 2014.
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Smriti Mandhana Creates History: What record did she break?
Smriti Mandhana was opening the batting with her partner Shafali Varma in the fourth T20I at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram. Both players added 162 runs for the first wicket, while Smriti herself scored 80 runs in 48 balls, which included 11 boundaries and three massive sixes. India Women’s eventually won the match, and she was the Player of the Match. The last match is all set to take place on 30th December as India have already won the series and are leading 4-0.
She completed 10,000 international runs and became the second Indian Women’s cricketer to do so in women’s cricket history. The first player is the legendary Mithali Raj, who is also the highest run scorer in Women’s history with 10,868 runs. Second to her is New Zealand’s Suzie Bates, who has scored 10,652. England’s Charlotte Edwards is the third player in the list with 10,273 runs.
Smriti Mandhana is currently on 10,053 runs and could potentially break Mithali Raj’s record in the future. She became the fastest player to score 10,000 runs in Women’s cricket history. It just took Smriti Mandhana 280 innings to achieve this milestone, as Mithali Raj had earlier achieved the magical milestone in 291 innings. Coming into this match, Smriti needed 27 runs in 12 innings which was surely going to happen but Smriti did it in the fourth T20I against the Sri Lankan Women team.