{"id":21567,"date":"2026-06-15T06:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/smriti-mandhana-scripts-history-vs-pakistan-joins-harmanpreet-kaur-and-mithali-raj-to-become-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T06:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:24:50","slug":"smriti-mandhana-scripts-history-vs-pakistan-joins-harmanpreet-kaur-and-mithali-raj-to-become-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/smriti-mandhana-scripts-history-vs-pakistan-joins-harmanpreet-kaur-and-mithali-raj-to-become-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Smriti Mandhana scripts history vs Pakistan, joins Harmanpreet Kaur and Mithali Raj to become &#8230; | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131724021,imgsize-76156,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/mmb-62.jpg\" alt=\"Smriti Mandhana scripts history vs Pakistan, joins Harmanpreet Kaur and Mithali Raj to become ...\" title=\"Photo\/Agencies\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/smriti-mandhana\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Smriti Mandhana<\/a> joined <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mithali-raj\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Mithali Raj<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/harmanpreet-kaur\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Harmanpreet Kaur<\/a> as India&#8217;s joint-highest half-century scorer in Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup history with her fifth fifty in the tournament, helping India post 170 for 6 against Pakistan in their opening match at Edgbaston on Sunday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Mandhana scored 68 off 44 balls and shared a 91-run partnership with captain Harmanpreet Kaur (36 off 35 balls) after India were reduced to 18 for 2 early in the innings. Richa Ghosh then added 34 off 17 balls to give India a strong finish.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>With her innings, Mandhana moved level with Mithali and Harmanpreet on five scores of 50 or more in Women&#8217;s T20 World Cups.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Most 50-plus scores for India in Women&#8217;s T20 World Cups<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"16\">\n<ul>\n<li>5 \u2013 Mithali Raj (23 innings)<\/li>\n<li>5 \u2013 Harmanpreet Kaur (34 innings)<\/li>\n<li>5 \u2013 Smriti Mandhana (26 innings)<\/li>\n<li>3 \u2013 Punam Raut (15 innings)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>India had a poor start after losing Shafali Verma for 6 and Jemimah Rodrigues for 1, slipping to 18 for 2. <!-- -->Mandhana and Harmanpreet then rebuilt the innings carefully before increasing the scoring rate.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>India were 30 for 2 at the end of the Powerplay, but the pair added runs quickly over the next seven overs. Mandhana reached her half-century in 34 balls and struck nine fours and two sixes during her knock.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>She survived two chances during her innings. First, a catch was dropped at mid-off off Tasmia Rubab&#8217;s bowling. Later, a chance at the wide long-on boundary went through the fielder&#8217;s hands for six off Sadia Iqbal.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>Mandhana&#8217;s innings ended when she miscued a shot off Rameen Shamim and Pakistan captain Fatima Sana completed the catch.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>After her dismissal, India lost momentum briefly. Bharti Fulmali was stumped for a duck, while Harmanpreet fell for 36 when Natalia Pervaiz took a catch at the square-leg boundary off Fatima Sana.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/>Richa Ghosh then provided the late push. The wicketkeeper-batter scored 34 from 17 balls, with India collecting 23 runs from the penultimate over bowled by Rubab.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"34\"\/>For Pakistan, Sadia Iqbal returned figures of 2 for 41, while captain Fatima Sana picked up 2 for 33.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"36\"\/>India eventually finished on 170 for 6, with Mandhana&#8217;s record-equalling half-century laying the foundation for the total.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"38\"\/>India won the match by 64 runs as Pakistan were bowled out for 106 in 17 overs.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"40\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/icc-womens-t20-world-cup\/smriti-mandhana-scripts-history-vs-pakistan-joins-harmanpreet-kaur-and-mithali-raj-to-become-\/articleshow\/131724006.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smriti Mandhana joined Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur as India&#8217;s joint-highest half-century scorer in Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup history with her fifth fifty in the tournament, helping India post 170 for 6 against Pakistan in their opening match at Edgbaston on Sunday.Mandhana scored 68 off 44 balls and shared a 91-run partnership with captain Harmanpreet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}