Richa Ghosh (54) equaled the world record for the fastest fifty in 18 balls in women’s T20 International cricket while opener Smriti Mandhana (77) also scored a half-century as India took four wickets in the third and deciding T20 against West Indies here on Thursday. Made his best score of 217 runs on the wicket. This is India’s biggest score in the shortest format of cricket. This is the biggest score of any team against West Indies in this format. Earlier in 2023, Australia had scored 212 runs for 6 wickets at North Sydney Oval. Let us tell you, India had won the first match of the three-match Women’s T20 International series between India and West Indies, while West Indies had won the second match.
India’s biggest scores in T20 cricket
Earlier in the Women’s T20 International, India had scored 201 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in the match against UAE in July 2024. India had won this match by 78 runs. In this match for India, Harmanpreet Kaur scored 66 runs in 47 balls while Richa played an unbeaten inning of 64 runs in 29 balls.
India’s third highest score in T20 International came against England in 2018. On the basis of half-centuries of Mithali Raj and Smriti Mandhana, India had scored 198 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. However, England won the match on the basis of Danny Wyatt’s innings of 124 runs.
India’s fourth highest score in Women’s T20 International came during the first match of the same series against West Indies, when India scored 195 runs at the loss of 4 wickets on the basis of half-centuries from Jemimah Rodrigues and Smriti Mandhana. India won this match by 49 runs.
India’s fifth highest score in a Women’s T20 International match came against New Zealand in 2018, when India scored 194 runs at the loss of 5 wickets on the basis of Harmanpreet Kaur’s century. India won this match by 34 runs.
This was how India’s batting was in the third match.
21-year-old Richa played an inning of 54 runs in 21 balls with the help of five sixes and three fours and during this, equaled the record of the fastest half-century of New Zealand’s Sophie Devine and Australia’s Phoebe Litchfield. Before Richa, Smriti became the most successful batsman in the T20 International format this year by scoring her third consecutive half-century of the series and eighth half-century of the year. He has 763 runs in his name in 23 T20 Internationals this year.
Smriti left Sri Lankan captain Chamari Atapattu behind in the list of highest run scorers. After failing to score enough in the second T20, India scored runs at a rate of about 10 runs per over from the beginning, thanks to its batsmen in the decisive match. India had a bad start. The team lost the wicket of Uma Chhetri (0) in the first over itself, who became the victim of Chinelle Henry (1 wicket for 14 runs).
Smriti decorated the innings with Jemimah Rodrigues (39 runs in 28 balls, four fours) by making a partnership of 98 runs in 55 balls for the second wicket. Jemima also played some attractive shots after a slow start. Affy Fletcher (one wicket for 25 runs) broke this partnership by LBWing Jemima.
Batting at number four, Raghavi Bisht (31 not out in 22 balls, two fours, one six) left a mark in her second T20 International match. She hit her first international boundary in the form of a six off Karishma Ramharak and scored runs on both sides of the wicket. However, Smriti once again missed a century. He caught Henry on the ball of Deandra Dottin (one wicket for 54 runs) in the 15th over. He hit 13 fours and one six in his innings of 47 balls.
After this, India sent aggressive batsman Richa to bat before Deepti Sharma and she played an important role in taking the team’s score beyond 200 runs and entertained more than 40 thousand spectators present at the DY Patil Stadium here.
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