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Smriti Mandhana-led Team India beat England by 97 runs in the first T20I of the five-match series played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Saturday, June 28.
India crush England by 97 runs in first women’s T20I. (Picture Credit: X/@BCCIWomen)
India beat England by 97 runs in the first T20I of the ongoing five-match series. In the series opener played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Saturday (June 28), India rode on captain Smriti Mandhana’s 112-run knock to post a total of 210 runs on the board for the loss of five wickets and then bowl England out for 113 runs in 14.5 overs. The century by stand-in captain Mandhana on Saturday was her first triple-digit score in T20Is, and debutant Shree Charani picked up four wickets for 12 runs in 3.5 overs for Women in Blue.
Apart from securing a big win over the hosts in the series opener and going 1-0 up, Indian players broke multiple batting and bowling records.
Here’s a look:
- Smriti Mandhana became the 2nd Indian batter after Harmanpreet Kaur to score a century in women’s T20Is.
- Smriti Mandhana scored 112 runs from 62 balls on Saturday. She now holds the record for scoring the most runs for India in a T20I match. Earlier the record was in the name of Harmanpreet, who made 103 runs from 51 balls against New Zealand in Providence (November 2018).
- Mandhana is the first Indian and overall fifth batter after Heather Knight (England), Tammy Beaumont (England), Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa), and Beth Mooney (Australia) to score at least one century each in all three formats of the game.
- Charani is the 2nd Indian bowler after Sravanthi Naidu to take four wickets on T20I debut. Naidu picked up 4 wickets for 9 runs against Bangladesh in Cox’s Bazar on March 9, 2014, and Charani finished with figures of 4 for 12 in 3.5 overs on Saturday.
- India beat England by 97 runs. The previous biggest win record against England in T20Is was 93 runs by Australia in Chelmsford (2019).
- The two captains—Smriti Mandhana (112) and Nat Sciver-Brunt (66)—aggregated 178 between them in the first T20I, which is the second-highest in a women’s T20I featuring at least one full-member side, after 182 (Suzie Bates—124*, Dane van Niekerk—58) in the New Zealand-South Africa contest at Taunton in 2018.
The second T20I between India and England will be played at County Ground in Bristol on Tuesday (July 1), and the next three matches are scheduled to take place at The Oval (July 4), Manchester (July 9), and Birmingham (July 12).
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