1st ODI – India v South Africa
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, 16 June
India 265/8 (50.0) beat South Africa 122 (37.5) by 143 runs
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143 – India’s victory at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru was their second biggest in terms of runs in an ODI on home soil:
- 170 v West Indies at Gurgaon, 2004
- 143 v South Africa at Bengaluru, 2024
- 113 v England at Hyderabad, 2002
265 – India’s total was the highest made in a women’s ODI at M Chinnaswamy, beating their own 221/2 against New Zealand in 2015.
117 – Smriti Mandhana innings was her first ODI hundred in India, and fittingly for the RCB captain, was the first century made in any women’s international format at this ground. The previous record score at M Chinnaswamy was Belinda Clark’s 93* for Australia against South Africa at the 1997 World Cup.
6 – Mandhana has now made the outright second most centuries by an Indian woman in the format:
- 7 Mithali Raj (211 innings)
- 6 Smriti Mandhana (83 innings)
- 5 Harmanpreet Kaur (112 innings)
- 3 Punam Raut (73 innings)
5 – Mandhana became the seventh woman, and the first from India, to make ODI centuries in five or more different host nations:
- 6 – Meg Lanning (AUS) in AUS, ENG, IND, MAL, NZ, WI
- 6 – Suzie Bates (NZ) in NZ, AUS, ENG, IND, IRE, WI
- 6 – Sophie Devine (NZ) in NZ, ENG, IND, IRE, SL, UAE
- 5 – Claire Taylor (ENG) in ENG, AUS, IND, NZ, SA
- 5 – Stafanie Taylor (WI) in WI, BAN, IND, PAK, SA
- 5 – Chamari Athapaththu (SL) in SL, AUS, ENG, PAK, SA
- 5 – Smriti Mandhana (IND) in IND, AUS, ENG, NZ, SA
81 – Mandhana’s partnership with Deepti Sharma was India women’s joint third highest 6th wicket stand in ODIs, and their first half-century stand for the 6th wicket against South Africa.
166 – That partnership and those which followed, saw India recover from a potentially precarious 99/5 to an eventual total 265/8. The runs they scored in this period were the most India women have ever added after the fall of the 5th wicket in an ODI:
- 166 v SA at Bengaluru, 2024
- 148 v AUS at Wankhede, 2023
- 137 v SL at Pallekele, 2022
- 133 v IRE at Dublin, 2002
2,000 – During her innings, Deepti also brought up 2,000 career runs in ODIs. At 26 years 298 days, Deepti was the third youngest Indian woman to reach that mark – behind Mithali Raj (23y 32d) and Mandhana (23y 111d) – and also became the tenth woman from any nation to achieve the ODI career double of 2,000 runs and 100 wickets.
37 & 2/10 – This was the fourth time in her ODI career that Deepti has scored 35+ runs and taken two or more wickets in the same match. No other Indian woman has achieved this all-round feat more than twice.
4 – Asha Sobhana’s crowd-pleasing rise continued, as the RCB star finished with the second best figures by an Indian woman on ODI debut:
- 5-21 Purnima Choudhary v WI at Faridabad, 1997
- 4-21 Asha Sobhana v SA at Bengaluru, 2024
- 4-31 Amanjot Kaur v BAN at Mirpur, 2023
In doing so, Asha became the first India women’s spin bowler to take a four-wicket haul on debut.
33 – At 33 years 92 days, Asha was the second oldest bowler to take four or more wickets on debut in a women’s ODI:
- 36-37y* Cor van der Flier (NED) – 4-24 v NZ at Haarlem, 1984
- 33y 92d Asha Sobhana (IND) – 4-21 v SA at Bengaluru, 2024
- 32y 316d Glenys Page (NZ) – 6-20 v T&T at St Alban’s, 1973
*Born 1947. Precise DOB unknown.
What particularly marks out Asha Sobhana’s recent achievements, is that she is a veteran player being brought in to an established team. Records like this, as in the two other cases listed above, are usually made when the match in question is also one of the the team’s first matches in the format (and in the case of Page for New Zealand, the first ever day of women’s ODI cricket, at the 1973 World Cup).
100 & 4 – The standout performances in 1st and 2nd innings made this the third time that India women have had both a batter score a century and a bowler take 4-fer in a home ODI:
- Arundhati Kirkire 106 & Mamatha Maben 4-23 v WI at Gurgaon, 2004
- Mithali Raj 104* & Poonam Yadav 4-13 v SL at Visakhapatnam, 2014
- Smriti Mandhana 117 & Asha Sobhana 4-21 v SA at Bengaluru, 2023
122 – South Africa have now been bowled out for under 150 four times in the last six months. Until the first of these innings, against Bangladesh at East London in December, it had been four years since the Proteas Women had been dismissed for such a total in an ODI.
3 – Ayabonga Khaka’s figures (10-0-47-3) were her best in the format against India, and saw her move up to fifteenth on the all-time list for most women’s ODI career wickets (130).
1 – Nondumiso Shangase (10-0-54-1) took her first ODI wicket since South Africa’s tour of India in 2021. All six of Shangase’s career wickets in the format have been taken against India.
Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.
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