Smriti Mandhana Fastest Century in ODI: Indian women’s cricket team’s opening batsman Smriti Mandhana has batted brilliantly. Smriti Mandhana scored a brilliant century in the third and last ODI of the ODI series against Ireland in Rajkot. Mandhana completed her century in just 70 balls and with this she has created a new record in the history of women’s ODI cricket. Mandhana has achieved the feat of scoring the fastest century in women’s ODI cricket for India. With this, he has broken Harmanpreet’s record of fastest century by a huge margin. Earlier, Harmanpreet had scored a century in an ODI match in 87 balls against South Africa in 2024.
This is the 10th century of Smriti Mandhana’s ODI career. With this, the Indian opening batsman has become the first Indian woman cricketer to score 10 centuries in the history of ODI cricket. Not only this, she became the fourth player in the world to score 10 or more centuries in the history of women’s ODI cricket.
Most centuries in women’s ODI
15- Meg Lanning
13- Suzy Bates
10- Tammy Beaumont
10- Amnesia
This is Mandhana’s 8th 50+ score in 10 consecutive innings. From this it can be estimated that she is in such excellent form. In this entire series, Mandhana is getting tremendous support from young opener Pratika Rawal. In this third ODI, there has been a partnership of more than 200 runs between the two for the first wicket.
Fastest century (by balls) for India in Women’s ODI.
70- Smriti Mandhana vs Ireland, Rajkot, 2025
87- Harmanpreet Kaur vs South Africa, Bengaluru, 2024
90- Harmanpreet Kaur vs Australia, Derby, 2017
90- Zemima Rodrigues vs Ireland, Rajkot, 2025
98- Harleen Deol vs West Indies, Vadodara, 2024
Mandhana was out after scoring 135 runs in 80 balls. In this stormy century innings, he hit 7 sixes and 12 fours. In this way he equaled the record of most sixes for India in ODI cricket. Now Mandhana and Harmanpreet have 52-52 sixes in their name. During this innings, Mandhana also left behind Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry in terms of scoring the most runs in women’s ODI cricket. Mandhana now has 4195 runs in 97 ODI matches while Perry has scored 4185 runs.
