.Smriti Mandhana. (BCCI Photograph) NEW DELHI: Smriti Mandhana on Wednesday engraved her name in past as she became the initial ladies’s cricketer to rack up 4 ODI centuries in a calendar year. The classy left-hander achieved this exceptional feat throughout the 3rd as well as ultimate ODI against Australia in Perth.Mandhana’s capability to support innings as well as increase when called for has actually been instrumental in crew’s success, but this time her lambaste went in vain as India lost to Australia by 83 go for the WACA.’ How can easily India still qualify for World Test Champion final?Mandhana accomplished her fifty in 50 distributions, before happening to rack up a century coming from 103 spheres.
Observing her pair of consecutive hundreds against South Africa in June as well as one against New Zealand in Oct, this innings significant Mandhana’s fourth century of the year.Her outstanding task of counting 4 centuries in a calendar year set up a brand new record in females’s ODIs, exceeding the previous best of 3 centuries in a year, which was actually jointly kept by seven gamers. South Black captain Laura Wolvaardt scored her third ton this year, while the others on the checklist are actually Meg Lanning (2016 ), Nat Sciver-Brunt (2023 ), Sophie Devine (2018 ), Sidra Amin (2022 ), Amy Satterthwaite (2016 ), Belinda Clark (1997 ). This newest century took Mandhana’s overall ODI century count to 9, placing her together with Nat Sciver-Brunt, Chamari Athapaththu as well as Charlotte nc Edwards in mutual 4th position.
Her next aim at would certainly be actually to equivalent Tammy Beaumont’s tally of 10 ODI centuries.Mandhana obtained her ninth ODI century, featuring 14 limits as well as one 6. She currently trails through merely six centuries to match the history for most ODI hundreds, currently held by previous Australian captain Meg Lanning, that has 15 to her name.This accomplishment illustrates her consistent efficiency at the highest level and also her considerable addition to ladies’s cricket.