VIDEO: As Superstar Culture Ruins India Men’s Cricket, Women’s Team Break ODI Record

Smriti Mandhana waltzed her method to the quickest century by an Indian whereas Pratika Rawal compiled her maiden hundred as India amassed 435-5, their highest-ever complete within the 50-over format, within the third and closing girls’s ODI towards Eire on Wednesday. The stand-in skipper Smriti’s scintillating 135 (80 balls), her tenth ODI century, got here off simply 70 deliveries, set the tone for India breaching the 400-run mark for the primary time, becoming a member of Australia and New Zealand in that elite checklist. It was additionally the fourth-highest complete in girls’s ODI, and Smriti additionally surpassed Harmanpreet Kaur’s 87-ball hundred mark towards South Africa final 12 months.