Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur during the third ODI against the Australian women's team (Pic: BCCI)
In the third women's ODI match against Australia, Team India's Smriti Mandhana played a knock of 125 runs off just 63 deliveries. Her knock was laced with 17 boundaries and five maximums (Pic: BCCI)
With this, she surpassed Australia's Karen Rolton to become the player to register the second-fastest century in women's ODI (Pic: X/@ICC)
Earlier, Rolton achieved the celebrated three figures in 57 balls against South Africa in 2000-01. In the ODI against Australia, Mandhana reach the feat in just 50 balls, pushing Rolton to the third spot (Pic: BCCI)
Former Australian skipper Meg Lanning enjoys the top spot on the list of the fastest players to complete a century in women's ODI. She scored a ton in 45 balls against New Zealand in 2012-13 (Pic: BCCI)
Mandhana is also the first woman batter to score four ODI hundreds in a single year. She achieved the feat in 2024 (Pic: BCCI)
The left-handed batswoman has also become only the second batter to score successive hundreds in women's ODIs twice, after Tammy Beaumont of Australia (Pic: BCCI)
India's batting wizard Virat Kohli was at the summit of the fastest ODI century for India, following his 52-ball effort against Australia in Jaipur in 2013. However, his reign ended after 12 years as Mandhana scored a century in a mere 50 balls, the fastest in men's and women's ODIs (Pic: BCCI)
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