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Smriti Mandhana scores fastest 10k in women's cricket history
Mandhana is now the fourth women batter and the second Indian to achieve the 10,000-run milestone.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Mon, 29, Dec 2025
- 03:59 EST
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Smriti Mandhana / Instagram/@smriti_mandhana
Smriti Mandhana became the fastest player to score 10,000 runs in women's cricket history during the fourth T20I of the five-match series against Sri Lanka at the Greenfield International Stadium here.on Dec. 28.
Mandhana is now the fourth women batter after Mithali Raj, Suzie Bates, Charlotte Edwards, and the second Indian after Raj to achieve the 10,000-run milestone
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She achieved this milestone in just 281 innings, overtaking the previous record held by Raj, who took 291 innings.
England's Edwards achieved this feat in 308 innings, while New Zealand's Bates required 314 innings.
In the seventh over of India’s innings, the left-handed batter completed her 10,000 runs in women’s international cricket.
After achieving this feat in her 280th appearance for India, Mandhana told ICC,
"After playing a lot of ODI cricket this year, it was tough to get into T20 cricket. It was mentally a little different. Happy that I contributed better today. In the last one year, there is a different kind of team building, everyone is celebrating everyone's success."
Mandhana has scored 629 runs in seven matches and 12 innings at an average of 57.18, with two centuries and three fifties in Test cricket.
She is the sixth-highest run-getter in the ODI format with 5,322 runs in 117 ODIs and innings at an average of 48.38, with 14 centuries and 34 fifties. She finished as the highest run-scorer in ODIs in 2025.
As for T20Is, Mandhana has bagged 4,102 runs in 157 matches and 151 innings at an average of 29.94, SR of 124.22, a ton and 32 fifties, being the second-highest run-getter in this format.
In a year of success and making and breaking records, Mandhana also registered the fastest ODI century by an Indian, achieving so in just 50 balls against Australia, crossing Virat Kohli’s long-standing record of 52 balls against the same opponent.
After crossing the 5,000-run mark in women’s ODIs and becoming the fifth player to achieve so, Mandhana now has 5,322 runs in 117 matches and is at par with Australian great Meg Lanning for the most international centuries in women’s cricket, with 17 tons each.
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