Smriti Mandhana : A big record was made during the third T20I match being played between India and West Indies in Navi Mumbai. Batting first, Team India’s acting captain Smriti Mandhana continued her excellent form and scored 77 runs in 47 balls, due to which the team managed to score a huge score of 217 runs for four wickets in the decisive match of the series against West Indies. In this way, Team India broke its own big record. This score of 217 runs against West Indies is Team India’s highest score in women’s T2OI cricket. Team India made this score by breaking its own 6-month old record. Earlier, Team India had scored 201 runs for the loss of 5 wickets against UAE in Dambulla city of Sri Lanka in July this year.  

Mandhana, who was leading the team in the absence of Harmanpreet Kaur, hit 13 fours and a six during her innings and scored her third consecutive half-century. During this, Mandhana also accomplished the great feat of hitting 7 boundaries in 7 consecutive balls. Smriti Mandhana accomplished the great feat of hitting 7 boundaries in 7 consecutive balls during the third and fourth overs. Mandhana hit 3 back-to-back fours on the last 3 balls of the third over. After this, as soon as she got the strike on the second ball of the fourth over, she hit a four, six, four and then a six. 

Smriti Mandhana in this T20I series against West Indies

• 54 (33) in the first T20I
• 62 (41) in the second T20I
• 77 (47)* in the 3rd T20I

During this brilliant innings, Mandhana also completed 500 fours in T20I cricket. She became the second female cricketer to do so. Not only this, now she has also become the cricketer who has hit the most fours in Women’s T20I. She achieved this big milestone by defeating Suzie Bates.

Most fours in WT20I 

• 506 : Smriti Mandhana (142 innings)
• 505: Suzie Bates (168 innings)
• 439 : Chamari Atapattu (141 innings) 
• 409 : Alyssa Healy (143 innings) 
• 405 : Meg Lanning (121 innings)

After Smriti Mandhana was out, Richa Ghosh played an innings of 54 runs in 21 balls with three fours and five sixes. She scored a half-century in 18 balls and equaled Sophie Devine’s record for the fastest half-century in women’s T20I cricket. Richa Ghosh has also equaled the record of KL Rahul and Suryakumar Yadav. KL and Surya had achieved the feat of scoring half-centuries in T20I in just 18 balls each.