4,4,4,4,6,4,4…Smriti Mandhana hit boundaries on 7 consecutive balls, broke the world record. – Read

Smriti Mandhana’s bat is playing in every match. In the third match of the T20 series against West Indies, Mandhana did something which perhaps no one would have expected. This left-handed batsman hit 7 consecutive boundaries against West Indies. Mandhana usually plays with time, she hits weak balls only, but this player was seen in a different attitude at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Let us tell you how Mandhana took the news of West Indies bowlers.

Mandhana hit 7 boundaries in 7 balls

Smriti Mandhana accomplished this feat in the third and fourth overs. Mandhana hit a four on the fourth ball of Henry bowling the third over. Mandhana also hit fours on the fifth and sixth balls. After this, Mandhana got a strike on the second ball of the fourth over and this player hit a four on the second ball of Dottin, a six on the third ball, a four on the fourth ball and then a four on the fifth ball. In this way Mandhana hit 7 consecutive boundaries.

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Mandhana scored a special hat-trick

Smriti Mandhana not only hit 7 consecutive boundaries, apart from this she also completed her half-century in just 27 balls. The big thing is that this is Mandhana’s third half-century in this series. In this way he scored a hat-trick of half-centuries. Mandhana had scored 54 runs in the first T20 match, while in the second match this player had played an inning of 62 runs.

Mandhana's world record

Mandhana also made a world record in her name by scoring a half-century in the third T20. Mandhana has now become the player with the highest fifty plus score in T20 cricket. Mandhana has scored 30 fifty plus scores in T20 cricket. Not only this, she is the first female Indian cricketer to score three consecutive half-centuries in a T20 series. If we talk about both male and female cricketers, then Virat Kohli has also achieved this feat in the year 2016.