smriti mandhana breaks most centuries by indian women cricketer odi cricket india vs new zealand 3rd odi

Smriti Mandhana Most ODI Centuries Womens Cricket: Smriti Mandhana has made a historical record in her name. She has now become the cricketer who has scored the most ODI centuries in the history of Indian women's cricket. She has set this record by leaving behind the great batsman Mithali Raj. Smriti played an inning of 100 runs in the third ODI against New Zealand and made an important contribution in helping Team India win the series 2-1.

This was the eighth century of Smriti Mandhana's career in ODI matches. Now only 6 players are ahead of him in terms of scoring most centuries. Before Smriti, this Indian record was in the name of Mithali Raj, who had scored a total of seven centuries in her huge career of 232 matches. The record for scoring the most centuries in women's ODI cricket is in the name of Australian player Meg Lanning, who scored 15 centuries in her illustrious career. Lanning is set to retire in 2023.

This was Smriti Mandhana's 10th century in international cricket as she has played two century innings in her career of 7 Test matches. In ODI cricket, Smriti Mandhana has so far scored 3,690 runs in 88 matches, in which she also has 8 centuries and 27 half-centuries in her name.

Other records of Smriti Mandhana

Smriti Mandhana has previously been the fastest player to score 2,000 ODI runs for India. He made this record in 51 innings and the record of scoring the fastest 3,000 runs is also in his name. Mandhana had touched the figure of three thousand runs in 76 innings. He is only 113 runs away from scoring 8,000 runs in international cricket. The female cricketer who scored the most runs in international cricket is Mithali Raj, who scored a total of 10,868 runs in all three formats in her career.

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