Smriti Mandhana’s great record, became the first Indian to do so in T20 World Cup
Last Updated:
Smriti Mandhana Record: Smriti Mandhana played a explosive inning of 74 runs in the T20 World Cup match against Netherlands. Facing 47 balls, Mandhana hit 11 fours and one six in her innings. With this inning, India batted first and scored a huge total of 209 runs. Mandhana also made many records during this innings.
Smriti Mandhana became the highest Indian scorer of 50+ in the Women’s T20 World Cup.
New Delhi. Indian women’s team’s star opener batsman Smriti Mandhana made a big record by playing a half-century innings against Netherlands. This is his sixth 50+ score in the history of this tournament. With this, Mandhana has become the first Indian to score 50+ 6 times in the Women’s T20 World Cup. Mandhana broke the record of captain Harmanpreet Kaur and former Indian cricketer Mithali Raj, who have accomplished this feat 5 times each. This was Mandhana’s 36th score of fifty or more in T20 International.
Captured this record also
Mandhana has also become the first batsman in the world to hit 600 fours in T20 International cricket (men or women). This 30 year old batsman increased her number of fours to 604 with 11 fours. She is comfortably at the first position in terms of hitting most fours in Women’s T20 International. After them are the names of Suzie Bates and Chamari Atapattu. Bates has hit 524 fours, while Atapattu has 493 fours.
Mandhana played an inning of 74 runs
This match of ‘Group-A’ was played at Headingley. Netherlands captain Babette de Leede won the toss and invited India to bat first. India scored 209 runs after losing 5 wickets in the stipulated overs. The pair of Shefali Verma and Smriti Mandhana made a partnership of 115 runs in 70 balls. Shefali was out after scoring 55 runs in 38 balls. His innings included 10 fours. Mandhana was out after scoring 74 runs in 47 balls with 1 six and 11 fours.
Richa-Harman crossed the score of 200
The Indian team had lost 4 wickets till the score of 168. From here, Richa Ghosh (20 not out) along with captain Harmanpreet Kaur (12) made a partnership of 31 runs in 15 balls for the fifth wicket, taking India to a huge score. Deepti Sharma (10 not out) came on the field to play the last two balls of the innings, hitting a six and a four to take India to the score of 209/5. For Netherlands, Caroline de Lange took maximum 2 wickets, while Iris Zwilling, Heather Seegers and Marthe van den Raad took 1 wicket each.
About the Author
Shivam Upadhyay is an emerging sports journalist, who has been working as a sub editor in the country’s prestigious media organization Network 18 Group since November 2025. Cricket is the main area of expertise, but hockey and badminton are also…read more
