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Women’s T20: Indian women’s team defeated Sri Lanka by 82 runs in the T20 World Cup 2024. In this match, every bet of Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur was absolutely correct. After winning the toss, she decided to bat first, which proved to be right. The team scored 172 runs while batting first. After this, on the strength of Arundhati Reddy and Asha Shobhana, Team India was successful in stopping Sri Lanka at a score of 90 runs.
Mandhana Shefali’s strong batting
The foundation of victory for the Indian team was laid by Smriti Mandhana and Shefali Verma (Smriti and Shefali ) with an excellent partnership. These players shared a 98-run partnership for the first wicket. Mandhana batted strongly and scored a half-century, but she was out on a score of 50 runs. Apart from this, Shefali scored 43 runs. Mandhana and Shefali have made the record of having the most fifty-plus run partnerships in a calendar year of Women’s T20 International cricket. Both of them have had fifty-plus run partnerships 7 times in the year 2024. Earlier, no pair in Women’s T20I cricket had been able to have a fifty-plus run partnership more than 6 times in a calendar year. This is the first time in Women’s T20I cricket that a pair has had fifty-plus partnerships 4 times in a calendar year. Players who have made the most fifty plus run partnerships in a calendar year in Women’s T20I:
7 – Smriti Mandhana, Shefali Verma (India, 2024) 6 – Suzie Bates, Sophie Devine (New Zealand, 2018) 6 – Alyssa Healy, BL Mooney (Australia, 2018) 6 – Tazmin Brits, Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa, 2023) 6 – Kavisha Egodage and Isha Ojha (UAE, 2023)
Harmanpreet and Shefali Verma have also made the record of scoring the most runs in partnership in a calendar year of Women’s T20 International cricket. Both these players scored a total of 825 runs in partnership in T20I in the year 2024. Earlier this world record was in the name of Thailand’s Naruemol Chaivai and Natthakan Chantham. Both the players of Thailand had scored 723 runs in partnership in T20I in the year 2019. Now India’s Shefali and Smriti have left them behind and made a new record.
Most runs from partnership in a calendar year of women’s T20I cricket
825 – Smriti Mandhana, Shefali Verma (India, 2024) 723 – Naruemol Chaivai, Natthakan Chantham (Thailand, 2019) 708 – Tazmin Brits, Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa, 2023) 680 – Suzie Bates, Sophie Devine (New Zealand, 2018)
