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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Smriti mandhana t20 century: Smriti Mandhana has scored a century in the first match of the T20 series against England. She completed her century in 51 balls and this is her first century in T20 international cricket and with this she has become the second fastest player for India in women’s T20 cricket history. In this match, he along with Harleen Deol blown away the England bowlers.

In this match played in Nottingham, the Indian team came out to bat first. Captain Smriti Mandhana did a stormy batting from the beginning, but the bat of Shefali Verma could not last, which was dismissed for just 20 runs in 22 balls. Mandhana then partnered 94 runs with Harleen Deol in a rage.

Smriti Mandhana hit the second fastest century

Earlier, the Indian record of scoring the fastest century in women’s T20 cricket was the name of Harmanpreet Kaur, who completed a century in 49 balls against New Zealand in 2018. Now Smriti Mandhana has finished second in this list by completing the century in 51 balls.

The record of the fastest century in women’s T20 cricket is named after West Indies Deendra Dotin, who has scored a century in 38 balls. Tammy Buomont scored 47 balls, Harmanpreet Kaur scored 49 balls and Meg Lanning has scored a century in 51 balls. Now Smriti Mandhana has jointly finished fourth among the women cricketers scoring the fastest T20 century.

On the basis of this century, Smriti Mandhana has become the first woman cricketer in India to score a century in all three formats. Earlier, Mandhana has two centuries in the career of 7 Tests and 11 centuries in 102 ODI matches. Prior to them, only Heather Night, Tammy Buomont, Laura Vulwart and Beth Muni have done this in international cricket.

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