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The Indian Women cricketers have continued impressing everyone with their remarkable performances in the ongoing inaugural season of the Hundred.
After Jemima Rodrigues‘ heroics, it was a time for opening batter Smriti Mandhana, who shined with the willow in the 8th match of the competition played between Welsh Fire Women vs Southern Brave Women.
Mandh😼ana, who is representing Southern Brave in this season, lit up the Sophia Gardens in C𒆙ardiff to help her side register a memorable victory.
While chasing 111, Mandhana carried her bat with a phenomenal 61 runs knock off 39 balls. She smashed five fours and three sixes during her match-winning effort🍒 to take her side over the finish line with eight wickets in hand.
Earlier, Welsh Fire posted 110/7 on the scoreboard from their allotted 100 deliveries. Opener Hayley Matthews, with 33 off 20, was their top scorer in the match. All-rounder Georgia Hennessy 🥀made a valuable contribution of 23 runs off 24 balls to take her side b🅘eyond the mark of 100 runs.
For Southern Brave, Lauren Bell (2/19) and Amanda Wellington (2/19) picked up a couple of wickets each.
Brief scores:
Welsh Fire 110/7 in 100 balls (Hayley Matthews 33, Georgia Hennessy 23; Amanda Wellington 2/19, Lauren Bell 2/19) lost to Southern Brave 112/2 in 84 balls (Smriti Mandhana 61*; Nicole Harvey 1/23) by 8 wickets.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
What a sublime knock , Indians doไminating 🙌 well play♏ed champ 👏👏
— Reema Malhotra (@ReemaMalhotra8)
Highest scores in Women's Hundred:-
92* – Jemimah Rodrigues
61* – Smriti Mandhana
60 – Jemimah Rodrigues
59 – Alice Capsey
56* – Dane van Niekerk
49* – Harmanpreet KaurAll the top-3 scores are by Indians.
— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats)
🏏 against Welsh Fire:
61 runs
39 balls
5 fours
3 sixes domination 🔥— The Hundred (@thehundred)
Few batters can look as elegant as Smriti Mandhana when they're smashing the ball down the ground for 6. A terrific knock, a pleasure to see live 👏👏👏
— Aatif Nawaz (@AatifNawaz)
Smriti Mandhana: Getting 110 runs, our bowlers and fielders were great…Lottie has been great as a head coach. She's been in touch with everyone throughout the last one month. When I came into the set-up, I already felt I knew all the girls
— Annesha Ghosh (@ghosh_annesha)
. notches up her first fifty in the and helped her team win by 8 wickets.
Looking forward to her scoring big runs in the tourname🧔nt 😎🔥— IndianCricketHeroesIN (@ICHOfficial)
crediting the bowlers for the win is such a good thing. Not the first time 💛she has done it, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Turning into a very good leader Ms Mandhana.
— Ananya Upendran (@a_upendran11)
What a knock from SMRITI MANDHANA 👏
61 RUNS IN 39 Ball's
Including 4 Fours And 3 Sixes.
Finished The Match With A 6⃣⚡— Pratik 🪄 (@122mlongsix)
if chasing is a CLASSROOM then is TOPPER in that
61*(39)— SaiKiran@9999 (@Kiran99995)
Smriti Mandhana knows how to finish off in style 🥰�꧅�
— Honey bee (@BeeBaby_07)
Smriti Chasing Mandhana – 61* runs from 39 balls including 5 fours and 3 sixes while chasing 111 runs – she finished the match with a six. Well played, Smriti.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
JUST ADMIRATION NOTHING ELSE
— Asif (@ASIFCR75)
What a beauty of a innings by Smriti Mandhana
— AMIT (@Amit_g777)
Smriti Mandhana's shots are so effortless and beautiful to watch 🤩
— 𝐑. (@fanmahida)