Bangalore; News Agency: India won the match between India Women and South Africa Women by 143 runs on Sunday. With this win, India has taken a 1-0 lead. Smriti Mandhana and Asha Shobhana played a vital role in India's victory in this match. Smriti scored a century (117) while debutant Asha took 4 wickets.
The Indian team had set a challenge of 266 runs against South Africa. The Indian team scored 265 for 8 in 50 overs on the strength of Smriti's century. Apart from Smriti, Deepti Sharma scored 37 and Pooja Vastrakar scored 31 not out for India. No one else could even cross 20 runs. Ayabonga Khaka took the most 3 wickets from South Africa. Also Masabata Klass took 2 wickets, while Aneri Dirksen, Nonkululeko Mlaba and Shangase took 1 wicket each. This challenge is not up to the visiting team. His innings ended on 122 runs. Sun Luce scored the highest 33 runs from them.
Smriti Mandhan's stunning century
Smriti Mandhan scored a century in the ODI match between India Women and South Africa Women on Sunday. Bangalore's M. The Indian team batted first in this match held at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. This time, vice-captain Smriti Mandhana scored a brilliant century of 117 runs off 127 balls with 12 fours and 1 six. This became her sixth ODI century. Along with this, she also crossed the milestone of completing 7000 runs in her international career.
Smriti has become the sixth woman cricketer in the world and the second from India to score 7000 runs in international cricket. Mithali Raj has previously made such a record from India. Also women cricketers such as Charlotte Edwards, Suzy Bates, Stephanie Taylor, Meg Lanning have also crossed the 7000 runs mark in international cricket. Smriti's 6th century in ODIs has surpassed Harmanpreet Kaur's record of 5 centuries. Smriti is now second in the list of players who have scored most ODI centuries for the Indian women's team in ODIs. Mithali Raj tops the list with 7 centuries.
