Smriti Mandhana; India Women Vs South Africa 3rd ODI Update | Harmanpreet | Indian women’s team clean sweep over South Africa: won the ODI series 3-0; Mandhana played an inning of 90 runs; 3500 runs completed in ODI

Indian women’s team defeated South Africa by 6 wickets in the third ODI match played in Chennai.

Indian women’s cricket team defeated South Africa by 6 wickets in the third ODI. Batting first at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, the visiting team scored 215 runs for 8 wickets. In reply, India won by scoring 220/4 in 40.4 overs.

With this victory, the Indian team made a clean sweep of the three-match series 3-0. This is India’s second clean sweep over South Africa. Earlier, in the year 2019, India had also whitewashed the three-match ODI home series 3-0.

Mandhana scored 90 runs
For India, opener Smriti Mandhana scored 50+ for the third consecutive match. He scored 90 runs in 83 balls with the help of 11 fours. Mandhana and Shefali made a cautious start while chasing the target. Mandhana showed that she is in full form by hitting three fours against Nadine de Klerk in the sixth over. In the next over, Shefali hit a four against Ayobonga Khaka. Tumi Sekhukune gave the team its first success by dismissing Shepheli in the 12th over.

Whereas Mandhana completed her half-century by hitting a four against Nondumiso Shengase in the 18th over. Whereas on 90 runs, Nonkululeko Mlaba got caught at the final leg and sent him to the pavilion.

For India, opener Smriti Mandhana played an inning of 90 runs.

Mandhana completes 3500 runs
Mandhana completed 3500 runs in ODI. She became the third Indian batsman to reach this milestone. He scored 3585 runs.

Smriti Mandhana became the highest run scorer in the 3 match bilateral ODI series
Mandhana has become the highest run scorer in a bilateral ODI series. Earlier this record was held in the name of South African captain Laura Wolvaardt. Wolvaardt had scored 335 runs in the home ODI series played against Sri Lanka this year. Now Volwart has slipped to second position.

At third place in this list is West Indies’ ace player Hayley Mathews, who performed brilliantly in the ODI series played against Pakistan in 2024 and scored 325 runs.

Mandhana scored 343 runs in this series.

African captain Laura Walworth played a half-century innings
Captain Walworth made a partnership of 102 runs for the first wicket. On this score, Walworth was dismissed by Arundhati Reddy. Walworth scored 61 runs. Brits scored 38 runs. The game of the African team, which lost 2 wickets at the team score of 104 runs, slowed down again and the team could only score 215/8.