Graceful opener Smriti Mandhana scored the second fastest ladies’s ODI hundred off simply 50 balls within the third one-day worldwide in opposition to Australia in New Delhi on Saturday (September 20, 2025).
Mandhana went previous former Australian batter Karen Rolton’s document (off 57 balls) made in 2000-01 in opposition to South Africa.
Former Australian skipper Meg Lanning leads the listing of fastest century makers with a 45-ball century which she made in opposition to New Zealand in 2012-13 season.
The 29-year-old Mandhana’s 50-ball effort, which included 14 fours and 4 sixes, was additionally the fastest by an Indian batter, because the left-hander rewrote her personal earlier document of a hundred in 70 balls.
Mandhana can be the primary lady batter to make 4 ODI tons of in a single yr as she had achieved the feat in 2024.
Tazmin Brits of South Africa is the opposite batter to realize this feat.
She has additionally develop into solely the second batter to attain successive tons of in ladies ODIs twice after Tammy Beaumont of Australia.
New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite holds the document for many consecutive tons of in ladies’s ODI with 4 tons in a row in 2016-2017.
