Smriti Mandhana Women’s Fifty T20I: Smriti Mandhana is in great form and has scored a lot of runs with the bat in the T20 series against West Indies. The series has been played two games so far and Mandana has scored half-centuries in both games. In the second T20 match, the Indian women’s team had to face the West Indies and suffered a heavy defeat by 9 runs. Barring Mandana, every other Indian batsman performed poorly in the match. For this reason, the team had to bear the brunt of the defeat.
Mandhana scored an innings of 62 runs
Smriti Mandhana also took over as captain from Harmanpreet Kaur in the second T20 match against West Indies. In this match, he scored 62 runs off 41 balls, including 9 fours and 1 six. This is her 29th half-century in women’s T20 international cricket. With this, she became the player with the most half-centuries in women’s T20I cricket and broke the world record of New Zealand’s Suzy Bates. Suzie Bates has scored 28 half-centuries in women’s T20I cricket. Mandana has now left behind all players on the list of half-centuries in women’s T20 international cricket.
Players who have scored the most half-centuries in women’s T20I cricket:
- Smriti Mandhana (India) – 29
- Suzy Bates (New Zealand) – 28
- Beth Mooney (Australia) – 23
- Stafanie Taylor (West Indies) – 22
- Sophie Devine (New Zealand) – 21
Scored over 3500 runs in Women’s T20I matches
The 28-year-old Smriti Mandhana made her T20 International debut in 2013 for the Indian team. Since then she has become an important part of the Indian team’s batting order. He has scored 3684 runs in 147 T20 international matches for India so far. She is the second-highest run-scorer in women’s T20 internationals.
Hayley Matthews steals match from India
In the second T20 against India, West Indies captain Hayley Matthews won the toss and decided to bowl first. Thereafter, the Indian team scored 159 points in 20 overs. Mandana scored a half-century for India. While Richa Ghosh scored an innings of 32 runs. Apart from these players, the other players performed poorly. After that, Hayley Matthews scored 85 runs for the West Indies and won the match one-sidedly for the team. Saima Thakor took India’s only wicket.
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