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Smriti Mandhana’s transformation brings more hundreds and faster scoring

Smriti Mandhana’s transformation brings more hundreds and faster scoring
Behind Smriti Mandhana’s transformation: More hundreds and better strike rate · indianexpress.com

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.

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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