Smriti Mandhana’s great wonderful, 8000 runs in white ball cricket; Australian veteran broke record

Smriti Mandhana Fifth Highest Runs Scorer White Ball Format: The Indian women’s cricket team is in Sri Lanka, where it has to play a tri-series against the hosts as well as South Africa. The series has started since Sunday (27 April) and the first match is being played in Colombo. In this match, Sri Lanka batted first and set a target of 148 in front of India. Chasing the target, Smriti Mandhana gave a brilliant start to the Indian team and scored 43 runs in 46 balls with the help of six fours. During this innings, Mandhana completed 8000 runs in white ball cricket and became the sixth female batsman to do so. Apart from this, he also surpassed former Australia captain Meg Lanning in the list of batsmen who scored the most runs in white ball format and have come in fifth place.

Mandhana became the fifth highest run -scorer in white ball cricket

Smriti Mandhana needed only 30 runs to complete 8000 runs in white ball cricket before the match against Sri Lanka and easily completed these runs. Now he has a total of 8013 runs, including ODI and T20 International. With this, Mandhana has come in fifth place in terms of white ball scoring the most runs in cricket. He has surpassed Australia veteran Meg Lanning. Lanning has 8007 runs.

A look at Smriti Mandhana’s white ball career

Talking about left -arm opener Smriti Mandhana, she made her T20 International and ODI debut against Bangladesh in 2013. In no time, Mandhana became an important batsman of Team India and today he is counted among the match winner. Mandhana has played 98 matches in her ODI career so far and has scored 4252 runs at an average of 46.21, including 10 centuries and 30 half -centuries. In T20 International, Mandhana has scored 3761 runs in 148 matches at an average of 29.38. During this time, 30 half -century innings have also come from his bat.