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Smriti Mandhana’s transformation brings more hundreds and faster scoring
Smriti Mandhana is a famous Indian cricket batter.
She recently scored 124 runs from only 64 balls against Hong Kong.
This was her 18th international hundred, the most by a woman in international cricket.
She also became the highest run-scorer in women’s international cricket.
Earlier in her career, Mandhana often scored fifties but did not turn them into hundreds.
In 2024 and 2025, she began converting many more fifties into hundreds.
Her scoring also became faster, especially in T20 cricket.
Mandhana said she admired Meg Lanning and Mithali Raj while growing up.
She called her latest achievements only a start.
Smriti Mandhana scored 124 from 64 balls against Hong Kong in the Women’s Asia Cup.
Her innings gave her 18 international hundreds, moving her past Meg Lanning for the women’s record.
Mandhana also surpassed Mithali Raj’s 10,868 international runs, reaching 10,880.
She scored nine ODI hundreds across 2024 and 2025, nearly twice as many as in her first 11 international years.
Her T20I strike rate rose from 126.53 in 2024 to 145.84 in 2026.
- Who
- Smriti Mandhana, India’s vice-captain and an international opening batter.
- What
- She scored 124 from 64 balls, setting records for international hundreds and total runs in women’s cricket.
- Where
- Dubai, in India’s match against Hong Kong.
- When
- Thursday, during the Women’s Asia Cup; the article identifies the latest figures as part of her 2026 season.
- Why
- Her improved conversion of fifties into hundreds and faster scoring drove the latest milestones.
Key facts
- Latest innings
- 124 runs from 64 balls against Hong Kong
- International hundreds
- 18, the most in women’s international cricket
- International runs
- 10,880, after surpassing Mithali Raj’s 10,868
- ODI hundreds in 2024-25
- Nine
- ODI conversion rate
- 52.9% across her fifty-plus scores in 2024 and 2025
- T20I strike rate
- 126.53 in 2024, 135.85 in 2025 and 145.84 in 2026
- T20I hundreds
- Her first came against England in June 2025; her second was against Hong Kong
Quotes
Smriti Mandhana
India batter speaking after winning Player of the Match against Hong Kong
“We had seen a few videos, but not really aware. We’re playing them for the first time, so when you come against a bowler who you don’t know a lot, you have to just forget that you’ve played whatever cricket. You just have to go, watch the ball”
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“Two of the legends of women’s cricket, Meg Lanning and Mithali Raj. Genuinely, these are the two people who I have grown up watching a lot, watched a lot of their cricket, and tried to take a lot of things from them as batters”
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