Last Updated: July 1, 2025 07:32 PM
India’s star cricketer Smriti Mandhana won everyone’s heart by scoring a brilliant century in the first T20 match against England.
Her brilliant innings not only gave India a big win by 97 runs, but also took her to number three in the ICC T20I batsmen’s rankings.
Smriti scored 112 runs in 62 balls, which included 15 fours and 3 towering sixes. This match played in Nottingham proved to be England’s biggest defeat in terms of runs in T20.
Smriti, who is the vice-captain of the Indian team, also captained the match as Harmanpreet Kaur was out due to injury.
Smriti said that T20 is not her favorite format, but no one will believe this by looking at her batting.
For now, she played brilliant shots on the off-side and hit three powerful sixes on the on-side. This innings gave her a career-best 771 rating points. Now she is only behind Australia’s Beth Mooney (794 points) and West Indies’ Hayley Matthews (774 points).
Why the stir among the bowlers?
England’s fast bowler Lauren Bell jumped two places in the bowlers’ ranking by taking 3 wickets in this match and secured the fourth position.
At the same time, Pakistan’s spinner Sadia Iqbal is still at the top of the bowlers’ list, but there is a difference of only 44 points in the top-10, that is, the competition is fierce!
What about Smriti’s stardom
Smriti Mandhana is already number-1 in ODI batsmen, and now her charm is also intact in T20. This innings of hers not only made the fans crazy, but also made India’s name ring in the world of cricket.
This innings of Smriti will be remembered for a long time, and now the fans are waiting for her to make her place in the top-2 soon.
Indians shine apart from Smriti
Apart from Smriti, Shefali Verma and Harleen Deol also made a jump in the ICC rankings. Shefali climbed up one place to 13th position with an innings of 20 runs.
while Harleen Deol returned to 86th position in the list of batsmen by playing a quick innings of 43 runs.
