Smriti Mandhana turns into first Indian girls’s participant to attain century in consecutive ODIs

Indian cricket group star Smriti Mandhana turned the first-ever girls’s participant to attain centuries in consecutive ODIs after her spectacular innings of 136 towards South Africa on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday. Mandhana took up 120 deliveries in her knock, slamming 18 boundaries and two sixes and batted at a strike price of 113.33.

Within the opening ODI, Mandhana had scored 117 as India put 265 on the scoreboard upon batting first. The opener had introduced up her knock in 127 balls with the help of 12 fours and a solitary six. Her strike price stood at 92.13. While the Ladies in Blue received the primary recreation by 143 runs, they emerged victorious within the following encounter by 4 runs.

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The Harmanpreet Kaur-led aspect thus leads the three-match collection by 2-0.

The second match held on Wednesday was a a lot nearer affair than the primary one although. India put up 325 batting first, as Mandhana’s ton was complemented by Harmanpreet’s unbeaten innings of 103 too. Harmanpreet introduced up this innings in 88 deliveries and it was enabled by 9 fours and three maximums, at a scoring price of 117.05. Shafali Varma and Dayalan Hemalatha contributed with transient innings’ of 20 and 24 respectively.

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The Protea girls did not again off from placing forth a struggle within the chase although. They fell in need of the goal by solely 4 runs in the long run, because of a supreme 135* effort by opener and captain Laura Wolvaadart. Marizanne Kapp got here in with a knock of 114 as nicely the place the Indian bowlers had an off-day at work. Pooja Vastrakar and Deepti Sharma took a few wickets every, and Arundhati Reddy together with Mandhana chimed in with a dismissal to their identify.

Mandhana’s century not solely helped her etch her identify within the historical past books for this document, but additionally pushed India to clinch a victory on this all-important ODI collection.