By Admin 
IND Women vs Eng Women 3rd Odie: Indian women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur once again proved that she is a player of big matches. In the third and decisive ODI against England, he played a stormy innings of 102 runs in just 84 balls and brought his team to a strong position.
Left Mithali behind but
Harmanpreet completed his century in 82 balls during this innings, which is the second fastest century of an Indian woman in ODI cricket. Only Smriti Mandhana scored 70 balls in Rajkot against Ireland this year.
However, this record of Harman, Smriti Mandhana could not break, but she has definitely equaled Mithali Raj. This was Harman’s 7th century of ODI career. The special thing is that while Mithali played 232 matches to score 7 centuries, Harmanpreet has achieved this position in just 149 matches, that is, she has overtaken former captain Mithali Raj by scoring 7 centuries in less matches.
India’s strong batting in third ODI
In the third ODI played at Li Street Ground in Manchester on Tuesday, India batted first and scored 318 runs for 5 wickets. Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal gave the team a good start by scoring 26-26 runs. Harleen Deol, who came at number three, played an important innings of 45 runs. Then came Harmanpreet’s explosion, he scored 102 runs, scoring 14 fours and batting in a captaincy style. Jemima Rodrigues also scored a half -century, while Richa Ghosh contributed 38 runs.
Before this match, the series was 1-1. India won the first match, while the second was the name of England. In such a situation, it proved to be like the third ODI final.
Smriti Mandhana leads
By the way, Smriti Mandhana has the record of scoring the most centuries from India in ODI cricket. She has scored 11 centuries in 105 ODIs. In this list, now Harmanpreet and Mithali are jointly second with seven centuries.