Smriti Mandhana created history, broke the world record of Mithali Raj and Meg Lanning together, became number-1 batsman in 2 cases

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Smriti Mandhana: Indian women's cricket team vice-captain Smriti Mandhana has created history by scoring a century in the Women's Asia Cup 2026. The 7th match of the Women's Asia Cup 2026 is being played between India and Hong Kong China at the Dubai International Stadium. In this match, after losing the toss, Team India came to bat first and scored a big score of 193 runs for 5 wickets on the basis of Smriti Mandhana's century. Mandhana played a stormy inning of 124 runs and was the highest run-scorer for India. With this century, Mandhana has simultaneously broken the world record of former Indian captain Mithali Raj and Australia's Meg Lanning. Mandhana has now become the player who has scored the most runs and centuries in women's international cricket.

Smriti Mandhana becomes the highest run scorer in women's international cricket

Before the match against Hong Kong in the 7th match of Women's Asia Cup 2026, Smriti Mandhana needed 113 runs to break Mithali Raj's record of most runs in international cricket. Mithali has scored a total of 10868 runs in women's international cricket. In this match, while Team India's wickets kept falling from one end, Mandhana scored fast at the other end and left Mithali Raj behind by completing the figure of 113 runs in just 60 balls. Mandhana has now become the highest run scorer in women's international cricket.

The player who scored the most runs in women's international cricket

10869 – Smriti Mandhana
10868 – Mithali Raj
10740 – Suzy Bates
10273 – Charlotte Edwards
10007 – Stephanie Taylor

Smriti Mandhana holds the record for most centuries in Women's International

By scoring a century in this match, Smriti Mandhana has also become the player who has scored the most centuries in Women's International. 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 the maximum number of 18 centuries in her name in women's international cricket. Mandhana played a stormy inning of 124 runs in just 64 balls, which included 14 fours and 7 sixes.

Smriti Mandhana also became number-1 in terms of scoring centuries in T20 International.

Smriti Mandhana has created another record by scoring a century in this match against Hong Kong China. Mandhana has now become the first Indian woman player to score more than one century in T20 International cricket. From India, so far only Smriti Mandhana and captain Harmanpreet Kaur have achieved the feat of scoring centuries in women's T20 International cricket.

Indian female batsman who scored a century in T20I

112 – Smriti Mandhana vs ENG-W, 2025
103 – Harmanpreet Kaur vs NZ-W, 2018
100* – Smriti Mandhana vs HKG-W, 2026

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