India’s Smriti Mandhana becomes top run-scorer in women’s cricket

Mandhana overtook erstwhile India skipper Mithali Raj, who had been the apical planetary scorer with 10,868 runs.

India’s batting superstar Smriti Mandhana has go the starring run-scorer successful women’s planetary cricket aft smashing a record-breaking 124 disconnected 64 balls successful the Women’s Asia Cup successful Dubai.

Mandhana overtook erstwhile India captain, Mithali Raj, who had been the apical planetary scorer with 10,868 planetary runs, during her match-winning innings against Hong Kong connected Thursday.

It besides sealed India’s spot successful the semifinals of the T20 tournament.

The 30-year-old besides became the starring century-maker successful women’s planetary cricket, with 18 hundreds crossed formats, overtaking Australia’s Meg Lanning and South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt, who person 17 each.

“It’s conscionable the start,” the India vice-captain said aft the game.

Mandhana, who made her India debut successful 2013, became the archetypal Indian pistillate to people planetary centuries successful ‌all 3 formats erstwhile she registered her maiden T20 planetary 100 past year.

She has 2 centuries each successful Tests and T20Is and 14 successful one-day internationals.

“Until I was batting, I didn’t cognize what record, due to the fact that I didn’t cognize what’s the nonstop runs,” Mandhana said, according to Indian sports outlet Sportstar.

“A precise bully time for Indian cricket, I would say,” she added.

She besides heaped praise connected Mithali Raj arsenic a “legend and a relation model”.

Mandhana’s sound featured 14 fours and 7 sixes arsenic India piled up 193-5 earlier bowling retired Hong Kong for 56 to unafraid a 137-run victory.

She said Hong Kong’s disciplined bowling made beingness hard aboriginal ⁠on.

“They were disciplined successful the powerplay, bowled truly good and the vigor they showed ⁠was thing we’ll larn from,” said ⁠Mandhana who dedicated her accomplishment to her family.