Indian women's cricket team's star batsman Smriti Mandhana made history in her 51st ODI. She has become the fastest Indian woman batsman to score 2,000 runs in ODIs. If you look at the record list, then she became faster than Virat in terms of scoring the fastest 2000 runs. Smriti made this magnificent record against the West Indies at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium here.
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The left-handed batsman played a blistering knock of 74 runs in the third and final ODI. She added 141 runs for the first wicket with young batsman Jemima Rodriguez during this innings. Smriti Mandhana was out of the first two matches due to injury. Mandhana scored 74 runs in 63 balls, while Rodriguez scored 69 runs in 92 balls.
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The 23-year-old Mandhana has scored 2,000 runs in 51 innings. With this, she has come at number three in the list of players who have scored the fastest two thousand runs in the world. Above them are Belinda Clarke and Meg Lenning of Australia. In the ODI match, Mandhana has scored 2,025 runs in 51 ODIs at an average of 43.08.
This includes 4 centuries and 17 half-centuries. If seen, the ODI record of completing the fastest 2 thousand runs in men's cricket is in the name of former South Africa batsman Hashim Amla (40 innings). However, the record for women is in the name of Benlida (41), while Lenning is second with 45 innings.
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