Smriti Mandhana created historical past throughout her innings in opposition to Eire girls within the first ODI match in Rajkot on Friday, January 10. The star Indian opener scored 41 runs and accomplished her 4,000 runs in girls’s ODIs to turn into the primary Indian to attain this milestone in lower than 100 innings.
Captaining the group within the absence of rested skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, the left-handed batter now boasts 4,001 runs in simply 95 ODI innings. Mandhana additionally grew to become the one second Indian after legendary Mithali Raj to achieve 4000 runs in girls’s ODIs.
Mithali, the all-time main run-getter in girls’s ODIs with 7805 runs, took 112 innings to finish her 4000 runs in 2011. Mandhana achieved this feat in comparatively lower than 17 innings to turn into the quickest Indian and the third-fastest in world cricket.
The legendary Australian cricketer Belinda Clark holds the file for the quickest to 4000 runs in girls’s ODIs achieved in simply 86 innings in 2003.
Quickest to 4,000 runs in girls’s ODIs
- Belinda Clark (Australia) – 86 innings in 2003
- Meg Lanning (Australia) – 89 innings in 2022
- Smriti Mandhana (India) – 95 innings in 2025
- Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa) – 96 innings in 2024
- Karen Rolton (Australia) – 103 innings in 2007
In the meantime, the Girls in Blue additionally set a group file by scoring their highest rating within the powerplay in ODIs at residence. Whereas chasing a 239-run goal, Mandhana and Pratika Rawal gave India a promising begin by including 70 runs for the primary wicket.
India registered 70 runs of their first 10 overs to set a brand new highest group rating within the powerplay overs at residence. Mandhana missed out on her fifty by 9 runs however Pratika registered her second 50-plus rating whereas taking part in in her solely 4th ODI to place India on monitor for a simple win within the first ODI in opposition to Eire.