By Admin 
The Indian women’s cricket team gave such a performance in the fourth match of the T20 series against Sri Lanka, which turned many pages of the record book simultaneously. In this match played at the Greenfield Stadium, India got a chance to bat first for the first time in the series and the team fully capitalized on this opportunity. The opening pair Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma made it clear as soon as they came on the field that this match is going to be special.
The biggest score made from a hot start
Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma gave an explosive start to the Indian innings. Both of them put tremendous pressure on the Sri Lankan bowlers for the first wicket. Smriti played a brilliant inning of 80 runs, while Shefali Verma was out after scoring 79 runs. Thanks to these two, India scored 221 runs for 2 wickets in 20 overs. This is the biggest score of the Indian women’s team so far in T20 International. Earlier, India’s best score was 217 runs against West Indies in 2024.
New record in the name of Smriti Mandhana
Smriti Mandhana made another big achievement in this match. The record of hitting most sixes in women’s T20 International cricket has been registered in her name. Smriti has so far hit 80 sixes in this format. In this matter, he left behind captain Harmanpreet Kaur, who has 78 sixes in her name.
India’s biggest T20I partnership
The pair of Smriti and Shefali made a partnership of 162 runs in this match. This is the biggest partnership of the Indian women’s team in T20 International cricket. Even before this, this record was in the name of both of them, when they had added 143 runs against West Indies in 2019.
Smriti achieved historic milestone
As soon as Smriti Mandhana completed her 27th run, she completed 10 thousand runs in international cricket. She became the second Indian female cricketer after Mithali Raj to achieve this position. The special thing is that till now only four women players in the world have been able to score more than 10 thousand international runs.
The dominance of the most successful T20I pair continues
Apart from this, the pair of Smriti and Shefali also completed the partnership of 3000 runs in T20 International. Both have scored 3107 runs together so far, which makes them the most successful pair in this format. At second place in this list is the Australian pair of Beth Mooney and Alyssa Healy, who have scored 2720 runs.