Smriti Mandhana Century; India Vs South Africa 1st ODI Update | IND SA | Mandhana’s first ODI century in India: 7000 runs completed in international cricket, India gave a target of 266 runs to South Africa

Smriti Mandhana played an inning of 117 runs in 127 balls in the ODI match played against South Africa in Bengaluru.

Indian women’s cricket team’s opener Smriti Mandhana scored her first century in ODI on home pitch. He scored an inning of 117 runs in 127 balls in the first match of the three-match ODI series being played against the South African team in Bengaluru.

Thanks to Mandhana’s innings, India has set the target of 266 runs for the South African team at the loss of 8 wickets.

Sixth century of ODI career
Mandhana completed the sixth ODI century of her career in 116 balls. Smriti also hit 12 fours and one six in her innings of 117 runs. This century of Mandhana has come after two years. He last scored his ODI century in the 2022 World Cup against West Indies. Since then, she crossed 90 twice but could not score a century.

7000 runs also completed in international cricket
Thanks to this brilliant innings, Smriti also completed 700 runs in international cricket. She became the second Indian women’s cricketer to do so. Before her, only Mithali Raj has been able to do this. In women’s cricket, before Smriti, 5 players have scored more than 7000 runs. Mithali has the highest score of 10868 runs. After this, the names of England’s Charlotte Edwards, New Zealand’s Suzie Bates, West Indies’ Stafanie Taylor and Australia’s Meg Lanning come in the list.

South Africa has a target of 266
Batting first, the Indian team scored 265 runs for 8 wickets. The Indian team had a very bad start. Opener Shefali Verma returned to the pavilion on the score of 15 runs. Half of the Indian team had returned to the pavilion on the score of 99 runs. After this, Smriti Mandhana along with Deepti Sharma handled the team’s innings. Smriti first completed her half-century in 61 balls and then played an important role in taking India’s score above 250 by scoring 117 runs.

There was a partnership of 81 runs on 92 balls between Smriti and Deepti. After this Smriti added 58 runs on 54 balls with Pooja Vastrakar. Deepti played an unbeaten inning of 37 runs on 48 balls while Pooja played an unbeaten inning of 31 runs on 42 balls.

There was a partnership of 81 runs on 92 balls between Smriti and Deepti.