Smriti Mandhana is just 40 runs away from creating history in women's ODI, only one cricketer has been able to do this for Team India.

India Women vs Ireland Women 1st ODI: Indian women's cricket team's star opening batsman Smriti Mandhana has the chance to create a special record in the first match of the three-match ODI series against Ireland in Rajkot from Friday (January 10). There will be a chance. According to Indian time, the match will start at 11 am. Let us tell you that Harmanpreet Kaur was rested in this series, hence Mandhana will take charge of the team.

If Mandhana scores 40 runs in this match, she will complete her 4000 runs in ODI cricket. He has scored 3960 runs in 94 innings of 94 ODI matches played so far. So far, only Mithali Raj has reached this figure for India, she has scored 7805 runs in 211 innings of 232 matches.

Apart from this, she will reach the third position in the history of women's ODI cricket in terms of completing 4000 runs in the fewest innings. Australia's Blenda Clarke had achieved this feat in 86 innings and Mag Lanning had achieved this feat in 89 innings. Mithali had played an inning of 112 runs for this.

Let us tell you that Mandhana is in great form and last year she had made the world record of scoring the most runs in a year in women's international cricket. Mandhana had scored 1602 runs in 2024 by combining all three formats.

Indian women's team for ODI series against Ireland

Smriti Mandhana (captain), Deepti Sharma (vice-captain), Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Jemimah Rodriguez, Uma Chhetri, Richa Ghosh, Tejal Hassabnis, Minnu Mani, Priya Mishra, Tanuja Kanwar, Raghavi Bisht, Titas Sadhu, Saima Thakor and Sayali. Satghare.

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