The Indian vice-captain turned the seventh girls’s participant and ninth general to finish 150 T20I matches. Mandhana will likely be eager to proceed the great work she did within the first recreation, smashing her maiden T20I century as India look to double the lead in Bristol on Wednesday.
Smriti Mandhana made her a hundred and fiftieth look for India in T20Is after being named within the enjoying XI for the second recreation of the five-match collection towards England in Bristol. Mandhana turned solely the second Indian lady and seventh general to finish the milestone. Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur is on the prime of the record with 179 appearances in T20Is. General, Mandhana was the third Indian to play 150 T20Is after Harmanpreet and Rohit Sharma, certainly one of solely two males to have reached the feat.
Amongst all 9 gamers to get to the landmark, Mandhana is surprisingly the one left-hander on the record.
Most matches performed in girls’s T20Is
Harmanpreet Kaur (India) – 179* (2009-2025)
Suzie Bates (New Zealand) – 177 (2007-2025)
Danni Wyatt-Hodge (England) – 175* (2010-2025)
Ellyse Perry (Australia) – 168 (2008-2025)
Alyssa Healy (Australia) – 162 (2010-2025)
Nida Dar (Pakistan) – 160 (2010-2025)
Smriti Mandhana (India) – 150* (2013-2025)
Captain Harmanpreet Kaur admitted that it is an amazing achievement for somebody like Mandhana, whose hitting she could not assist however commend as being only a class aside in a video for the BCCI web site. Jemimah Rodrigues used phrases like “setting the suitable requirements”, and head coach Amol Mazumdar known as Mandhana a “uncommon” participant, with the contact recreation she has and the class she performs with, particularly within the modern-day when hard-hitting and brute pressure is the way in which to go.
Common skipper Harmanpreet Kaur returned to the fold for the Indian group and Harleen Deol was the unlucky one to overlook out regardless of scoring a sexy 43 off simply 23 balls within the opening recreation, enjoying an important position in placing stress on England alongside Mandhana. Nevertheless, it wasn’t an auspicious outing for Mandhana in her landmark recreation as she was despatched packing by Em Arlott for a run-a-ball 13 after England opted to bowl first.
India took a 1-0 lead within the collection, handing a 97-run humbling to England and at the least within the powerplay, the hosts got here again storming, selecting three Indian wickets.