Womens Asia Cup 2026: Smriti Mandhana's brilliant century, India sets target of 194 runs for Hong Kong in Womens Asia Cup

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India vs Hong Kong: The 7th match of the Women's Asia Cup 2026 is being played between India and Hong Kong China at the Dubai International Stadium. Hong Kong won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, Team India scored 193 runs after losing 5 wickets, which means Hong Kong will have to score 194 runs to win. Team India's vice-captain Smriti Mandhana scored a brilliant century. He played an excellent inning of 124 runs and took the team close to 200.

74 run partnership between Smriti Mandhana and Shafali

In this match, Hong Kong captain Natasha Miles won the toss and invited the Indian team to bat. Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur also said that she wanted to score big by batting first in these conditions. Team India, who came to bat first, started the innings with Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma. India had a great start. Both the openers put pressure on the Hong Kong bowlers as soon as they arrived. Together, they made a strong partnership of 74 runs for the first wicket, which was broken by Ruthika Venkatesh by dismissing Shefali. Even after Shefali was out, Mandhana's attack continued. Shafali Verma was out after scoring 28 runs in 17 balls, which included 3 fours and 2 sixes.

Team India kept losing wickets continuously, Mandhana scored fast runs.

After Shafali Verma was out, Pratika Rawal came out to bat. However, she could not support Mandhana for long and was out after scoring 10 runs in 12 balls. He was escorted by Joyleen Kaur of Hong Kong. After this, Richa Ghosh also could not do anything special and quickly returned to the pavilion. He was coached by Hong Kong's most successful bowler Marina Lamplow. Richa was out after scoring 11 runs in 13 balls with the help of 1 four. Then captain Harmanpreet Kaur also returned to the pavilion after scoring 10 runs in 9 balls with the help of one four. However, at the other end, Mandhana continued to score runs rapidly and scored a brilliant century.

Smriti Mandhana played a century inning of 124 runs, broke many records

After this, Smriti Mandhana was out after playing a historic innings on the third ball of the last over of the innings. Mandhana, while trying to steal a run, fell victim to a misunderstanding with Bharti Fulmali and was run out. Mandhana played a stormy inning of 124 runs in just 64 balls, which included 14 fours and 7 sixes. During her inning of 124 runs, Smriti Mandhana broke many big records in the history of women's cricket. She has broken the world record of former Australian captain Meg Lanning, who had scored a total of 17 centuries in international cricket. Now Mandhana has become the first player in the world to score the most centuries in women's international cricket.

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