IND vs NZ Women 3rd ODI: Smriti Mandhana's brilliant century: Team India defeated New Zealand and won the series 2-1

IND vs NZ Women 3rd ODI: Due to its excellent performance, the Indian women's team won the third and decisive match of the ODI series against New Zealand by 6 wickets. With this victory, the Indian women's team won the 3-match series 2-1. Vice-captain Smriti Mandhana proved to be the star player of this match, who scored 100 runs and scored the 8th century of her ODI career. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur also made an important contribution to the team's victory by scoring 59 unbeaten runs.

According to media reports, this match was played on 29 October at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. New Zealand, batting first, scored only 232 runs in 50 overs. His batting performance was weak, because by the time he reached 88 runs, 5 wickets had fallen. Suzie Bates and captain Sophie Devine were also out early, while Georgia Plimmer scored 39 runs.

Brook Halliday's struggling innings

Brook Halliday took the lead in New Zealand's innings and faced the Indian bowlers well. However, due to the heat of Ahmedabad, she could not complete her century and was out after scoring 86 runs (96 balls, 9 fours, 3 sixes). After this, other batsmen together took the team to 232 runs.

Better fielding of Indian team

After poor fielding in the last match, this time the Indian team performed well. He took almost every catch and also ran out two players. Deepti Sharma took 3 wickets, while young spinner Priya Mishra took 2 wickets.

Smriti Mandhana's brilliant century

Team India once again did not have a good start, but Smriti Mandhana handled the situation by playing patiently. Her opening partner Shefali Verma (12) was out in the fourth over, but Smriti along with Yastika Bhatia made a strong partnership of 76 runs for the second wicket. During this time he also completed his half-century.

Excellent innings of captain Harmanpreet Kaur

After this, captain Harmanpreet Kaur came to the crease and along with Smriti made a partnership of 117 runs for the third wicket. Harmanpreet quickly made her fifty, and after some time Smriti scored a brilliant century by scoring 100 runs (122 balls, 10 fours). This is Smriti's 8th century in her ODI career, and she broke the record of scoring most centuries for India, which was earlier in the name of Mithali Raj. Even after Smriti's century, there was no impact on the team's victory, and India won the match in 44.2 overs.