New Delhi: Smriti Mandhana etched her name in the record books as she became the first batter to score 1000 runs in a calendar year in women’s ODIs. India’s ace batter scored a half-century at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam, on Sunday, October 12.

Mandhana began the match day with 982 runs in 17 matches in 2025 and started her outing with a boundary off Kim Garth in the opening over.

Before Australia’s clash, the left-hand batter hadn’t been enjoying the ongoing World Cup, as she scored just 54 runs combined in the first three games of the tournament. She started the campaign by scoring eight runs against Sri Lanka and registered her second successive failure against Pakistan, scoring 23 runs. She was looking decent in the third game against South Africa, but threw her wick

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