Mumbai
Women’s team India defeated West Indies 2-1 in the three-match T20 series. India won the last match of the series by 60 runs. Team India made a big record in this match. He broke the record of his own highest T20 score. During this, Smriti Mandhana and Richa Ghosh performed amazingly. Both of them scored half-centuries. Mandhana scored 77 runs and Ghosh scored 54 runs.
Actually the Indian team came on the field to bat first. During this period he scored 217 runs in 20 overs with the loss of 4 wickets. This was the biggest T20 score of Women’s Team India. Smriti Mandhana and Uma Chhetri came to open for him. But Uma was out on zero. While Mandhana scored 77 runs in 47 balls. He hit 13 fours and 1 six. Richa Ghosh scored unbeaten 54 runs in 21 balls. He hit 3 fours and 5 sixes. Raghavi Bisht scored 31 not out.
Women’s Team India broke its own record –
The highest total of the Indian women’s team in T20 was 201 runs. He played this innings against UAE. India had scored 201 runs in 20 overs with the loss of 5 wickets. But now this record has been broken. Team India’s biggest total has become 217 runs. Earlier, India had scored 198 runs in a match against England Women. This is his third highest score.
Smriti Mandhana became Player of the Series –
India defeated West Indies by 60 runs in the third T20. With this the series was also won. Smriti was chosen Player of the Series. She remained on top in terms of scoring most runs in this series. Mandhana scored 193 runs in 3 matches. Scored 3 half-centuries during this period.
Smriti Mandhana made many big records in her name
Mandhana has made the record of scoring the most runs by an Indian woman in a bilateral T20 series. He has scored 193 runs in three matches at an average of 64.33. Mandhana has broken the previous record of Mithali Raj, who had scored 192 runs against South Africa in February 2018.
The left-handed batsman also made the record of scoring most runs in a calendar year. In the 23 matches played throughout the year, he scored 763 runs at an average of 42.38, in which his highest score was 77. 28-year-old Mandhana overtook Sri Lankan captain Chamari Athapaththu, who scored 720 runs in 21 matches this year.
Apart from this, Mandhana has scored eight 50-plus scores in women’s T20Is in a calendar year. She left Mithali Raj behind, who had scored seven 50-plus scores in 2018. Mandhana has become the first batsman in women’s cricket to hit 100 or more fours in T20 in a calendar year.
Mandhana scored 54 runs in the first T20 and then scored 62 runs in the second T20 and 77 runs in the third T20. In the decisive match of this series, the left-handed batsman showed that she is India’s best opener by making a partnership of 98 runs with Jemimah Rodrigues.
