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Delhi: India defeated England by 97 runs in the first women’s T20 International at Trent Bridge and the most important thing is that in the match, captain Smriti Mandhana made her first T20 International 100. Smriti Mandhana scored a total of 112 runs off 62 balls with 3 sixes and 15 fours and in the last over of India’s innings. Mandhana showed a different class with the bat and completed his 100 runs in just 51 balls.

Smriti Mandhana scored a century in all three formats

The most special record is that Smriti Mandhana became the first female batsman in India to make 100 in all three formats of cricket. Earlier, he had 2 scores of 2 in 7 Tests and 11 score in 102 ODIs. Only T20 Internationals were left and also made this record while playing his 149th match. In women’s cricket, before them, a special record of 100 in all three formats was only in women’s cricket, only Heather Night, Tammy Buomont, Laura Volvard and Beth Muni. By the way, in the list of the most international 100, Smriti Mandhana’s 14 International 100 records are only Meg Lanning (17).

Special record was made in the name of memory

If we talk about 100 in all three formats, in international cricket, then these records for India are in the name of Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill and Smriti Mandhana. Of these, one of the special things of Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Smriti Mandhana is that these records have been made outside India, that is, in all three formats, 100 has been made in the match played outside India. This is not a simple record.

Smriti Mandhana is one of the most attractive batsmen in today’s women’s cricket. In this Trent Bridge T20 International, one more special record was that now Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur and Rohit Sharma are the three Indians who have made 100 in both ODI and T20 as captain. Smriti Mandhana captained 4 matches in ODIs and made 100 in one of them.

Smriti Mandhana’s better form can be gauged from this record that 6 international 100 has been made in the last 12 months. In comparison, in this period, all other women batsmen of India together have scored only 5 scores 100.

Another record can be made in another T20

When she plays the second T20 International of this series, she will have a great opportunity to make two special records:

• He has 8975 runs in international cricket and requires only 25 runs for a record of 9000 runs.
• Will play her 150th T20 International and before that this record is only 6 cricketers.

While the top personal score for India is now 112 (62) in the women’s T20 International, Smriti Mandhana is the only Rohit Sharma (118 vs Sri Lanka, 2017), Rohit Sharma (111* vs West Indies, 2018), Harmanpreet Kaur (103 vs South Africa, 2018) And Rohit Sharma (121* vs Afghanistan, 2024) was named.

A special thing of this first female T20 International was ignored and that for the first time, playing in England in the last 25 years, it happened that Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami and Harmanpreet Kaur in the playing XI were no. In such a situation, Smriti Mandhana needed a special performance as a stand and she played that role well.