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Smriti Mandhana has become the fastest batsman to score 5,000 runs in ODI cricket. She achieved this feat in the 13th match of the 2025 Women’s World Cup, in which India and Australia clashed. In this match, Smriti Mandhana played a half-century inning of 80 runs and made an opening partnership of 155 runs with Pratika Rawal. In fact, Mandhana has now gone ahead of Virat Kohli and Viv Richards in terms of scoring the fastest runs in ODI cricket. The Indian team scored 330 runs in the first innings.
Virat and Viv overtake Richards
Virat Kohli and Vivian Richards took 114 innings to complete 5,000 runs in ODI cricket. But Smriti Mandhana has completed five thousand runs in the 112th inning of her ODI career. With this, Mandhana has completed the fastest 5,000 runs in women’s ODI cricket. Before her, this record was in the name of West Indies’ legendary batsman Stafanie Taylor, who took 129 innings to score so many runs.
If we combine the statistics of men’s and women’s cricket, then Smriti Mandhana has come at the third position in terms of being the fastest to complete 5 thousand runs. In this matter, only Babar Azam (97 innings) and Hashim Amla (101 innings) are above him. Mandhana has come at number-3 in this list with 112 innings.
Smriti Mandhana created history
Smriti Mandhana has become the first female cricketer in the world to complete 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has also achieved this record in the World Cup match against Australia. Australia’s Belinda Clark is at second place in this matter, who had scored 970 runs in the year 1997. Mandhana has scored 4 ODI centuries this year and is the female cricketer who has scored the most ODI runs in 2025.
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