New Delhi. The Indian women’s cricket team defeated New Zealand by 6 wickets in the third ODI. With this, India won the three-match ODI series 2-1. The biggest contribution to India’s victory was made by vice-captain Smriti Mandhana. Smriti Mandhana scored a century in this match. With this, she became the batsman to score the most ODI centuries for India.

Indian opener Smriti Mandhana scored 100 runs in 122 balls in the third ODI against New Zealand. He hit 10 fours in this innings. This is his eighth ODI century. With this, Smriti Mandhana broke Mithali Raj’s Indian record of scoring most centuries. Mithali Raj had scored seven centuries in her career spanning 232 ODI matches. Smriti Mandhana has scored 8 centuries after playing 88 ODI matches.

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Mandhana in seventh place
Australia’s Meg Lanning holds the world record for most ODI centuries in women’s cricket. In his 12-year career, he has scored 15 centuries in 103 ODI matches. In second place is New Zealander Suzie Bates with 13 centuries. England’s Tammy Beaumont is in third place with 10 centuries. Smriti Mandhana is at number seven on this list. Mandhana has also scored 629 runs in 7 Tests and 3568 runs in 145 T20 matches.

Most of them are in the name of Mithali
28-year-old Smriti Mandhana has scored 3690 runs in 88 ODI matches at an average of 45.00. This covers 8 centuries and 27 half centuries. Smriti Mandhana may have left Mithali Raj behind in terms of the number of centuries scored, but she is still way behind her in terms of runs. In her 23-year career, Mithali Raj has scored 7805 runs in 232 matches at an average of 50.68. This includes 7 centuries and 64 half centuries. Mithali Raj is the highest run-scorer (ODI) batsman not only in India but in the world.

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