Delhi: Indian women's team's star batsman Smriti Mandhana scored a historic century against Hong Kong in the Asia Cup on Thursday. He played an excellent inning of 124 runs in 64 balls, due to which Team India achieved a big victory. During this century, Mandhana made the record of most runs in international cricket. He left Mithali Raj behind. After Mandhana's stormy innings, former Indian cricketer Diana Edulji raised the demand to make her the captain of all three formats.

Diana Edulji made a big demand

After this historic innings of Mandhana, former Indian cricketer Diana Edulji made a big demand for her. Edulji believes that Mandhana should be given the responsibility of captaining the Indian women's team in all three formats.

She appealed to the National Women's Selection Committee, which is headed by Amita Sharma, to consider making Mandhana the captain of all three formats. Edulji said this in view of Mandhana's consistently excellent performance and her consistency in international cricket.

Mandhana also has the most number of international centuries in her name.

Mandhana has not made records only in terms of runs. Now she has also become the batsman who has scored the most centuries in women's international cricket. After scoring a century against Hong Kong, his number of international centuries increased to 18.

She left behind Australia's Meg Lanning, who has 17 international centuries to her name. Mandhana has scored 14 centuries in ODI, 2 in Test and 2 in T20 International. She has also become the first Indian female batsman to score two centuries in T20 International cricket.