IND vs NZ Women 3rd ODI, Smriti Mandhana Century: The Indian women’s cricket team has suffered a crushing defeat to the New Zealand women’s team in the ODI series at home. The last match of the three-match series took place on Tuesday (October 29) at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
In this, thanks to Smriti Mandhana’s century, the Indian team recorded a spectacular 6-wicket victory. With this we have captured the series 2-1. In the first match of the series, the Indian team won by 59 runs. While the Kiwi team won the second ODI by 76 runs.
Mandhana created history by marking a century
The New Zealand team had set a target of 233 runs in the match. In response, the Indian team won the match in just 44.2 overs after losing 4 wickets. Opener Mandhana played an innings of 100 runs in 122 balls and created history. Mandhana has now become the cricketer to score the maximum number of 8 ODI centuries for India.
In this matter, Mandhana has surpassed former captain Mithali Raj, who had scored 7 centuries in 232 ODI matches. Mandhana achieved this feat in the 88th match. Mandhana hit 10 fours in his innings.
Playing-11 of India-New Zealand in the match
Indian Women’s Team: Shefali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Yastika Bhatia (goalkeeper), Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Jemimah Rodrigues, Tejal Hassabnis, Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Renuka Singh, Saima Thakor and Priya Mishra.
New Zealand women’s team: Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Lauren Down, Sophie Devine (c), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Isabella Gage (wk), Hannah Rowe, Lee Tahuhu, Eden Carson and Fran Jonas.
