IND W vs NZ W: The 24th match of the Women’s ODI World Cup is being played between India and New Zealand. In this match, after losing the toss and coming to bat first, for Team India, both the openers Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal have done a thing by scoring centuries, which had happened only twice before in the history of Women’s ODI World Cup. Not only this, Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal have become the first batsmen to do such a feat for India.
Smriti Mandhana came to open for Team India in this match of Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 against New Zealand (Smriti Mandhana) and Pratika Rawal (Pratika Rawal) Started slowly, but when both got established, they started scoring runs rapidly. Both these batsmen made the New Zealand bowlers hungry for wickets and both scored centuries. First Smriti Mandhana completed her century. After this Pratika Rawal scored a century. This is the third time in the Women’s ODI World Cup that both the openers have scored centuries.
For the first time in the history of Women’s ODI World Cup, this happened in 1973, when both the openers scored centuries. Then Lynn Thomas and Enid Bakewell of England had made the record of scoring centuries. After this, in the year 1988, Australian openers Lindsay Reeler and Ruth Buckstein achieved the feat of scoring centuries. Now after about 37 years such a scene has been seen. Indian openers Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal have done wonders by scoring centuries.
Smriti Mandhana played an innings of 109 runs in 95 balls. During this period, 10 fours and 4 sixes came from his bat. This is Mandhana’s 17th international century. Whereas Pra​Tika Rawal played an inning of 122 runs in 134 balls. In this he hit 13 fours and 2 sixes.
