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Indian vice-captain Smriti Mandhana connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) became the archetypal subordinate successful women's ODIs to people 1,000 runs successful a calendar twelvemonth during India's high-profile Women's World Cup radical lucifer against Australia successful Visakhapatanam.
The 29-year-old opener besides completed 5,000 runs successful women's ODIs, becoming lone the 5th and 2nd Indian batter aft Mithali Raj to execute the feat.
She is the youngest and fastest to the milestone, reaching it successful 112 innings and 5,569 balls, surpassing Stafanie Taylor's 129 innings and Suzie Bates' 6,182 balls.
The elegant left-hander, who had endured a quiescent commencement to the tournament, roared backmost to signifier successful benignant smashing 80 disconnected 66 balls (9x4s, 3x6s) and enactment unneurotic 155 runs opening basal with Pratika Rawal which was besides the archetypal period opening concern of the competition.
Mandhana, who began the time connected 982 runs from 17 matches, reached the 1,000-run landmark successful the eighth implicit erstwhile she tore into Australian left-arm spinner Sophie Molineux, smashing her for four, six and 4 successful an implicit that yielded 16 runs.
Mandhana broke the long-standing grounds of Australia's Belinda Clark (970 runs successful 1997) of the highest run-getter successful a calendar twelvemonth successful women's ODIs.
She started her innings positively, opening her relationship with a bound disconnected the past shot of the archetypal implicit from Kim Garth.
But it was Molineux's implicit that lit up the innings. Mandhana lofted the archetypal shot implicit mid-on for four, defended the next, past launched the 3rd shot for a six implicit long-on earlier pulling different bound implicit quadrate limb to seal her spot successful the grounds books.
Mandhana, who had scores of 8, 23 and 23 against Sri Lanka, Pakistan and South Africa respectively earlier successful the tournament, looked a wholly antithetic batter against her favourite absorption aft Australia opted to bowl.
She batted with fluency and authority, dissecting the tract with precision and utilizing her silken drives and aerial strokes to unsettle the Australian attack.
