Team India set a series of records, from the fastest century to the most sixes, these big records were made in a day.
Jan 17, 2025, 15:52 IST
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The Indian women's cricket team has made a big bang against Ireland. India whitewashed Ireland in the three-match ODI series. Team India won the series by winning two consecutive ODIs, while in the last ODI, Indian batsmen and bowlers also wreaked havoc on Ireland. India first scored 435 runs. Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal scored brilliant centuries. Then India bowled out Ireland for 131 runs. Team India set a slew of records in this match. Let's take a look at the big records made in this match.
These big records were made in the India-Ireland match:
- The third and last ODI between the women's cricket teams of India and Ireland was played in Rajkot on 15 January. Team India batted first and scored 435 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. This has become the highest score of the Indian women's cricket team in ODI. India has scored more than 400 runs for the first time. Earlier, Team India had scored its highest score of 371 runs for 5 wickets against Ireland in the second ODI on Sunday.
- The condition of Ireland's team worsened in front of the huge target of 436 runs given by Team India. Ireland had to face defeat by more than 300 runs. They were all out for just 131 runs. India won by 304 runs and this is the biggest victory in terms of runs for any team in women's ODI.
- The record of scoring the fastest century by an Indian batsman in an ODI was registered in the name of Harmanpreet Kaur. She completed her century in 87 balls against South Africa but now this record has been broken. It has been broken by Smriti Mandhana. She made a new record by scoring a century in 70 balls against Ireland. Smriti played an innings of 135 runs in 80 balls.
- 24-year-old batsman Pratika Raval also batted brilliantly in the last ODI against Ireland. She scored 154 runs in 129 balls. She is the third batsman to score more than 150 runs for India. Earlier, Deepti Sharma had scored 188 runs against Ireland and Harmanpreet Kaur had scored an unbeaten 171 against Australia.
- Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Raval, who scored centuries, also made the record of the third-highest partnership in ODIs for India. These two batsmen, who came to open, added 233 runs for the first wicket. In ODIs, Deepti Sharma and Poonam Raut had a record partnership of 320 runs for the first wicket in 2017.
- While Smriti Mandhana scored the fastest century in an ODI for India, she also equaled the Indian record of hitting the most sixes in an ODI innings. She hit 7 sixes in her innings of 135 runs. Harmanpreet Kaur also hit 7 sixes during her unbeaten innings of 171 runs against Australia in 2017.
- The Indian team has registered the record of hitting the maximum number of 9 sixes in an innings of a women's ODI. Apart from Smriti's 7 sixes, Pratika Rawal and Richa Ghosh also hit one six each. In this way, Team India broke its own record. In the match played in Bengaluru in 2024, it had hit 8 sixes.
- The Indian women's team has become the second team to whitewash the opponent the most number of times (13 times) in an ODI series of three or more matches. In this case, England (12) has come on the third position. While Australia (33) remains on the first position.