On one hand, the eyes of the fans are on Indian cricket team's superstars Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah who are preparing for the Border-Gavaskar series in Australia, while on the other hand, Smriti Mandhana is also on Australian soil and has already met these greats. Has shown his magic. Smriti Mandhana is playing in the Women's Big Bash League for Adelaide Strikers. This left-handed batsman played a stormy innings against Hobart Hurricanes. Mandhana scored 51 runs in just 32 balls on the Hobart ground. Mandhana's innings was so explosive that she hit a flurry of sixes and fours.

Mandhana's stormy innings

Mandhana batted furiously as soon as she entered the crease. This batsman took advantage of the powerplay and hit a total of 6 fours and 2 sixes. Mandhana completed her half-century in just 31 balls. Mandhana made a half-century partnership with opener Katie Mack. Both added 67 runs in 45 balls, out of which 51 runs were of Mandhana. Katie Mack was facing difficulty in batting but Mandhana did not let the team's run rate fall. However, Mandhana was out after scoring a half-century. He was caught by Chloe Tyrone off the ball of Lauren Smith.

First @StrikersBBL half-century for Smriti Mandhana #WBBL10 pic.twitter.com/KMZBtDviE5

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Lizel Lee scored a century

Before Mandhana, South African batsman Lizelle Lee, playing for Hobart Hurricanes, scored an amazing century. Coming to the opening, this player faced 59 balls and hit 13 fours and 4 sixes from his bat. Lizelle Lee scored 103 runs and her strike rate was around 175. Apart from him, Nicola Carey scored 64 runs in 46 balls. Captain Villani played an unbeaten inning of 23 runs. On the basis of these excellent innings, Hobart scored 191 runs in 20 overs. Smriti Mandhana could not perform well in the last two innings. In the first match for the Strikers, he scored 6 runs and in the next innings he gave the message of returning to his form by scoring 40 runs and now he has scored a brilliant half-century.