Visakhapatnam: World No 1 ODI batter Smriti Mandhana entered her name in the history books on Sunday by becoming the first woman cricketer in the world to score 1000 runs in a calendar year in Women’s ODIs. Mandhana, who is playing her 18th ODI of 2025 on Sunday in Visakhapatnam against Australia, needed 18 runs to complete 1000 ODI runs this year, and she achieved the objective by hitting Sophie Molineux for a six on the third ball of the eighth over.

Earlier during India’s third match of the ongoing ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, Mandhana broke former Australian batter Belinda Clark’s record of scoring the most runs in a calendar year in women’s ODIs. Clark played 16 ODIs for the Southern Stars in 1997 and amassed a total of 970 runs.

If, in the ongoing India-Australia match, Mandhan

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