The India Girls’s cricket staff achieved a historic milestone on Wednesday, setting their highest-ever one-day worldwide (ODI) complete of 435/5 towards Eire within the third match of the sequence. This record-breaking efficiency at Rajkot surpassed all earlier ODI totals by each Indian males’s and ladies’s groups.
The monumental innings was powered by centuries from Smriti Mandhana, the staff captain, and opener Pratika Rawal. Their partnership of 233 runs for the primary wicket grew to become the best opening stand by an Indian ladies’s pair in dwelling ODIs. Mandhana’s explosive knock of 135 runs off 80 balls included 12 fours and 7 sixes, whereas Rawal contributed a gradual 104 off 111 deliveries.
India’s complete eclipsed the boys’s staff’s highest ODI rating of 418/5, achieved in 2011 towards the West Indies in Indore. It additionally marked the second time in three days that India Girls broke their very own file, having posted 370/5 earlier within the sequence.
India’s ODI Milestones: Males and Girls Mixed
– 435/5 vs Eire Girls, Rajkot, 2025
– 418/5 vs West Indies Males, Indore, 2011
– 414/7 vs Sri Lanka Males, Rajkot, 2009
– 413/5 vs Bermuda Males, Port of Spain, 2007
– 410/4 vs Netherlands Males, Bengaluru, 2023
Mandhana’s century, achieved in simply 70 balls, set a brand new file for the quickest ODI hundred by an Indian girl. This surpassed the earlier better of 87 balls by Harmanpreet Kaur towards South Africa in Bengaluru. Mandhana’s innings additionally marked her tenth ODI century, making her the primary Indian girl to achieve double-digit centuries within the format.
The Rajkot innings noticed India Girls’s batters dominate Eire’s bowling assault, hitting 57 boundaries, the third-highest by a staff in ladies’s ODIs. Mandhana and Rawal’s opening stand laid the inspiration for India’s commanding complete, whereas middle-order contributions ensured the momentum continued by the innings.
Most Boundaries in Girls’s ODIs
– 71 by New Zealand Girls vs Eire Girls, Dublin, 2018
– 59 by New Zealand Girls vs Eire Girls, Dublin, 2018
– 57 by India Girls vs Eire Girls, Rajkot, 2025
– 56 by England Girls vs South Africa Girls, Bristol, 2017
India’s dominance within the sequence, already secured with a 2-0 lead earlier than this match, underscores their rising stature in worldwide cricket. Mandhana’s innings not solely secured her place within the file books but additionally highlighted her consistency as a top-order batter. She now joins an elite group of openers with 10 or extra ODI centuries, alongside Meg Lanning of Australia (15) and Suzie Bates of New Zealand (13).
