Against Ireland on Wednesday, the Indian women’s cricket team made history in the ODI format. In ODIs, the Indian squad achieved its highest-ever score. Both youthful Pratika Rawal (150) and captain Smriti Mandhana (135) achieved outstanding hundreds for India. In addition, Richa Ghosh achieved a half-century. In three days, India’s highest ODI score was surpassed.
On Wednesday, the Indian women’s cricket team made history. Against Ireland in Rajkot, the Indian side, captained by Smriti Mandhana, achieved the greatest score in its ODI history. In the third ODI, India scored 435 runs in 50 overs at a cost of 5 wickets.
What matters most is that India achieved its highest-ever ODI score in just three days. In the second ODI against Ireland, India had already amassed 370 runs in 50 overs at a cost of five wickets. The good news is that, in the history of women’s ODI cricket, India is now the first Asian nation to score 400 or more.
The Indian women’s team’s top five ODI scores
15 January 2025–435/5, India vs Ireland, Rajkot
12 January 2025–370/5, India vs Ireland, Rajkot
15 May 2017–358/2, India vs Ireland, Potchefstroom
24 December 2024–358/5, India vs West Indies, Vadodara
21 September 2022–333/5, India vs South Africa, Bengaluru
surpass the men
In Rajkot, the Indian women’s cricket team caused a stir by scoring 435/5 in 50 overs. In this sense, the Indian women’s team achieved a higher ODI score than the nation’s men’s team. The Indian men’s team defeated the West Indies in Indore in 2011 with the highest-ever ODI total of 418/5.
Mandhana-Raval scored hundreds of
The teenager Pratika Rawal (150) and captain Smriti Mandhana (135) were instrumental in helping the Indian side reach its highest-ever ODI score. India had an excellent start thanks to Mandhana-Raval’s 233-run partnership. Smriti Mandhana’s century in just 70 balls set a unique record. Mandhana achieved the distinction of becoming the fastest Indian female cricketer to reach a century.
Harmanpreet Kaur, who scored a century in 87 balls against South Africa the previous year, set a mark that the left-handed batsman surpassed. Pratika Rawal hit her first century in ODI cricket at the same time. With 20 fours and a six, she amassed 154 runs in 129 balls. Rawal is regarded as the current series’ discovery.
Opening pair records
Let us tell you that by scoring hundreds, Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Raval broke numerous records. In ODIs, Mandhana became the first female Indian player to reach ten hundred runs. They became the fourth Indian duo to score 200 runs or more together in an ODI.
Indians with a women’s ODI partnership of 200 runs or more
Mithali Raj and Reshma Gandhi vs. Ireland, 1999
Anjum Chopra and Jaya Sharma vs. Pakistan, 2005
Poonam Raut and Deepti Sharma vs. Ireland, 2017
Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal vs. Ireland, 2025