Sri Lanka helpless in front of Smriti-Shefali’s explosive batting, Team India scored the biggest score in history

INDW vs SLW: The fourth match of the 5-match T20 series between the women’s cricket teams of India and Sri Lanka is being played today i.e. on 28th December. Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma broke the back of the opposing team’s batting at the Greenfield Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram. Both of them together played 80 percent overs, due to which Team India put 221 runs on the score board.

India scored 221 runs

The pair of Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma is one of the strongest pairs in women’s cricket. In this match against Sri Lanka, both of them batted together for 15.2 overs. By then India’s combined score had reached 162. Shefali played an inning of 79 runs in 46 balls, which included 12 fours and 1 six.

After his dismissal, Smriti Mandhana continued to bat. She scored 80 runs in 48 balls with 11 fours and 3 sixes. Richa Ghosh finally scored 40 runs in 16 balls to take India to the score of 221. This is the biggest score in history by Team India in this format. Before this, 217 was the biggest total.

Smriti and Shefali’s biggest partnership

In this match, the biggest partnership in the history of Indian women’s cricket has been made between Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma. Earlier in the year 2019, both of them together scored 143 runs against West Indies. The same pair is also at number three, having added 137 runs against Australia in the year 2024. At fourth place is the pair of Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues, they scored 134 runs together against New Zealand in the year 2018.

🚨 SMRITI & SHAFALI CREATED HISTORY 🚨

– Smriti Mandhana & Shafali Verma becomes first pair to complete 150 runs partnership in T20I for India in History. pic.twitter.com/RgcFnufuYK

— Tanuj (@ImTanujSingh) December 28, 2025

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Smriti Mandhana created history

This innings is very special for Smriti Mandhana, as soon as she scored the 27th run in this innings, she scored 10 thousand runs in international cricket. She has become the fourth batsman in the world and second batsman from India to do so. Before her, Mithali Raj had achieved this feat, but in terms of innings, Smriti has become the fastest batsman to reach the milestone of 10 thousand runs. He took only 280 innings to achieve this achievement. Apart from this, he has also hit 450 fours in international cricket.

Most runs in women’s cricket

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