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Smriti Mandhana: Indian women’s team has won the three-match T20 series against West Indies 2-1. In the third T20 match played on Thursday, the Indian women’s team won the series by defeating West Indies by 60 runs. Earlier, the Indian team had won the first match by 49 runs. Whereas the second match was won by the West Indies team by nine wickets. Now both the teams will once again face each other in the ODI series. Which will start from 22nd December.
Smriti Mandhana’s brilliant performance
India’s acting captain Smriti Mandhana gave a strong performance at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. He made many records by playing explosive innings against West Indies. Mandhana scored 77 runs in 47 balls with the help of 13 fours and one six. Meanwhile, his strike rate was 163.82. Thanks to Mandhana’s third consecutive half-century and Richa Ghosh’s fastest half-century in T20, India made its highest score in the third T20 against West Indies. Earlier, India crossed the score of 201 runs for five wickets made against UAE. In this innings against West Indies, India scored 217 runs for four wickets.
Player of the Series Award
Smriti Mandhana was awarded the Player of the Series award for scoring half-centuries in three consecutive matches in this series. He scored a total of 193 runs in this series. Mandhana made a total of six records during the entire series.
Record of most runs scored by an Indian woman in a bilateral T20 series
Smriti Mandhana holds the record for scoring most runs by an Indian woman in a bilateral T20 series. He scored 193 runs in three matches at a strike rate of 159.50. With this he broke the record of opening batsman and former captain Mithali Raj. Mithali had scored 192 runs in the series against South Africa in February 2018.
Highest run scorer in a calendar year in Women’s T20I
Indian batsman Smriti Mandhana has become the highest run-scorer in a calendar year in Women’s T20. He scored 763 runs in 23 matches played this year and created history. With this, Mandhana broke the record of Sri Lankan captain Chamri Attapattab, who had scored 720 runs in 21 matches this year.
Mandhana holds the record for scoring most 50+ runs in T20I matches in a calendar year.
Smriti Mandhana holds the record for scoring most 50+ runs in women’s T20I matches played in a calendar year. He played an inning of 77 runs for the eighth time against West Indies. In this matter Mandhana defeated Mithali Raj. Who scored 50+ runs seven times in 2018.
Mandhana is the batsman who scored the most 50+ scores in women’s T20I matches.
Apart from this, Mandhana also became the player who scored 50+ scores the maximum 30 times in women’s T20I matches. In this matter, she left behind Suzie Bates, who had scored 50 or more 29 times in T20 matches.
Mandhana made the highest score in Women’s T20I against West Indies
Mandhana’s 77 against West Indies was the highest score by any Indian batsman in Women’s T20I. She broke her own record of 74 not out during the Women’s T20 World Cup in East London in January 2023.
First female batsman to hit 100 or more fours in a calendar year in T20I
Smriti Mandha became the first female batsman to hit 100 or more fours in a calendar year in T20I cricket. Now he has the record of hitting 104 sixes in a calendar year. In this matter he left Hayley Mathews behind. Who had hit 99 fours in 14 matches last year.
India won this match by 60 runs
In this match, after losing the toss and batting first, India scored 217 runs at the loss of four wickets in 20 overs. In reply, West Indies team could score only 157 runs at the loss of nine wickets in 20 overs and India won the match by 60 runs.