Smriti Mandhana completes 200 international matches: Check out her top 5 records

Indian opener Smriti Mandhana has completed playing 200 international matches. The third T20 match against Bangladesh was his 200th match. Mandhana continued her poor form in this historic match as well, scoring just 1 run. India won the toss and elected to bat first and tried to put up a strong score on the board. Mandhana has so far played 4 Tests, 77 ODIs and 118 T20 Internationals and has scored over 6,000 runs across all formats. He has scored 325 runs in Tests, 3073 runs in ODIs and 3853 runs in T20s. Mandhana averages over 40 in Tests and ODIs while her average in T20s has dropped to 27.59.

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Born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai, Mandhana made her international debut in April 2015 in a T20 match against Bangladesh women at Vadodara. In the same month in the same year, he also played his first ODI match. His Test debut came in August 2014 when India played against England at Wormsley.

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However, Mandhana has been in poor form since the start of the Women’s Premier League (WPL 2023) in March. His dreadful performance continues in the T20Is against Bangladesh. Let us see how she fares in the remaining matches of this limited overs tour.

200 international games and counting #TeamIndia vice captain, @mandhana_smriti ,

good go memory__#BANvIND pic.twitter.com/1n8VIq714k

– BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) 13 July 2023

To mark Mandhana’s remarkable achievement of playing 200 matches for India, let’s take a look at some of her top records and achievements below.

Fastest T20I fifty

Mandhana scored the fastest fifty in T20Is against New Zealand. This half-century came in just 24 balls and by doing so Mandhana broke her own record of 2018 in 30 balls against Australia.

Youngest T20I captain for India

It is worth noting that Mandhana has already led India in T20s. She is also the youngest female cricketer to captain India at the age of 22 years and 229 days.

Second highest fifty-plus score by an Indian woman batsman in T20Is

Mandhana has scored the second highest fifty plus score by a female cricketer in T20Is. Mandhana has done so 13 times while her former captain Mithali Raj has achieved the feat 17 times and continues to top the list.

Most runs in a series

Mandhana finished as the highest run-scorer for India in the ICC Women’s Championship. Mandhana scored 911 runs in 19 matches, including two centuries and 9 half-centuries, which came at an average of 65.07. The tournament in which Mandhana scored the most runs for India is held to determine qualification for the Women’s Cricket World Cup.

Second fastest Indian to score 1000 T20I runs

In 2018, Mandhana is the second fastest Indian women cricketer to reach 1,000 runs in T20Is. She reached this point in 49 innings. She is the 10th fastest female batsman to score 1000 T20I runs. Mithali Raj is the fastest Indian woman cricketer to score 1000 T20I runs, which she did in 40 innings.