.Smriti Mandhana. (BCCI Image) NEW DELHI: Smriti Mandhana on Wednesday engraved her title in history as she came to be the 1st ladies’s cricketer to score 4 ODI centuries in a calendar year. The exquisite left-hander obtained this amazing task in the course of the third and also final ODI against Australia in Perth.Mandhana’s ability to anchor innings and accelerate when demanded has actually contributed in team’s results, but this time around her lambaste entered vain as India lost to Australia through 83 go for the WACA.’ Just how can easily India still qualify for World Examination Champion final?Mandhana accomplished her fifty in fifty shipments, prior to going on to score a century from 103 rounds.
Observing her two successive hundreds against South Africa in June as well as one versus New Zealand in October, this innings marked Mandhana’s 4th century of the year.Her outstanding task of racking up four centuries in a fiscal year created a new record in ladies’s ODIs, surpassing the previous absolute best of 3 centuries in a year, which was actually collectively held through seven players. South Black leader Laura Wolvaardt scored her third lot this year, while the others on the listing are actually Meg Lanning (2016 ), Nat Sciver-Brunt (2023 ), Sophie Devine (2018 ), Sidra Amin (2022 ), Amy Satterthwaite (2016 ), Belinda Clark (1997 ). This latest century took Mandhana’s overall ODI century matter to 9, putting her together with Nat Sciver-Brunt, Chamari Athapaththu and Charlotte Edwards in common 4th position.
Her upcoming target will be actually to equal Tammy Beaumont’s tally of 10 ODI centuries.Mandhana achieved her 9th ODI century, featuring 14 boundaries and also one 6. She currently tracks by only six centuries to match the history for most ODI hundreds, currently held by past Australian captain Meg Lanning, that has 15 to her name.This accomplishment demonstrates her regular efficiency at the highest level and also her significant contribution to females’s cricket.