This Indian player scored a century for the first time in his 7 year career, ended his long wait

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|12-01-2025

A 3-match ODI series is being played between the women's teams of India and Ireland. In the second match of the series, both the teams faced each other at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot. In this match, the Indian team won the toss and decided to bat first. This decision of Smriti Mandhana proved to be right and the team managed to score a big score. During this period, a batsman of the Indian team also scored a century. This was also the first international century of this player's career.

Scored a century for the first time in 7 years of career

Star batsman Jemimah Rodrigues played a century in the second match of the ODI series against Ireland. Facing 91 balls, he scored 102 runs at a strike rate of 112.08. During this, Jemimah Rodrigues hit 12 fours. Let us tell you, this is the first century of Jemimah Rodrigues's international career. He started his international career with T20 in February 2018. After this, he made his ODI debut on 12 March 2018. That means Jemimah Rodrigues took almost 7 years to score her first century.

Jemimah Rodrigues has played 41 matches for Team India so far. During this match, he also completed his 1000 runs in ODIs. At the same time, Jemimah Rodrigues has also played 3 test matches for India, in which she has scored 235 runs with the help of 3 half-centuries. Apart from this, in T20 he has scored 2267 runs in 107 matches for Team India. Which also includes 12 half-centuries.

Team India made the biggest score

Due to this inning of Jemimah Rodrigues, Team India managed to score 370 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 50 overs. This is the biggest score of the Indian women's team so far in ODI cricket. Smriti Mandhana played a captaincy inning of 73 runs and Pratika Rawal, who came to open with her, scored 67 runs. Both the players also made a partnership of 156 runs for the first wicket. After this, Harleen Deol along with Jemimah Rodrigues took the team to a big score. Harleen Deol also scored 89 runs, but missed a century.

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