Century Against South Africa: Smriti Mandhana Joins 7k Club

• By Thetripurapost Desk, Bengaluru. 
• Jun 16, 2024
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The Indian women's cricket team is playing a 3-match ODI series against South Africa at home, the first match of which is being played at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. 

In this match, Indian team captain Harmanpreet Kaur decided to bat first after winning the toss. After this, Team India lost half of its team at a score of just 99. From here, opening batsman Smriti Mandhana handled the innings from one end and played an important role in taking the team to a fighting score in this match by making a great partnership with Deepti Sharma. 

After the end of 50 overs, the Indian women's team has scored 265 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. 

Smriti Mandhana also scored her sixth century in ODIs in which she also ended the long wait of 824 days

Smriti Mandhana played an important role in the batting of the Indian team in this match. She not only handled the innings from one end but also played a brilliant innings of 117 runs facing 127 balls. 

Mandhana's bat has seen 12 fours and a six during this period. At the same time, she has surpassed the current captain of the team Harmanpreet Kaur in terms of hitting the most sixes as an Indian women's player, who has a total of 5 centuries in ODIs. 

In this list, former Indian women's team captain Mithali Raj is at the top, who scored a total of 7 centuries during her ODI career. 

At the same time, Smriti has also crossed the 7000 run mark in all three formats on the basis of this innings. 

With this, she has become the second player to do so in Indian women's cricket after Mithali Raj.

Indian women players with most centuries in ODIs

Mithali Raj - 7 centuries

Smriti Mandhana - 6 centuries

Harmanpreet Kaur - 5 centuries

Poonam Raut - 3 centuries