IND vs ENG, Women’s World Cup 2025: Sophie Eccleston in front of Smriti Mandhana, both world number 1, such is the record so far

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khelja|19-10-2025

IND vs ENG, Women's World Cup 2025: Sophie Eccleston in front of Smriti Mandhana, both world number 1, such is the record so far

Smriti vs Sophie match (Photo: PTI)

India vs England, ICC Women's World Cup 2025: India's men's cricket team is playing Australia in Perth.

The women's cricket team is also going to play against England in the ongoing ODI World Cup at home. From India's point of view, this match of the Women's World Cup is very important. Because, defeat in this can further increase the danger of his being out of the tournament. When the teams of India and England clash, a match will also be seen between Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Eccleston. The most important thing in this competition between two players is that both are world number one in women's ODI.

Smriti Vs Sophie… both world number 1

India's Smriti Mandhana is the world number one batsman in the latest ICC rankings.

Whereas Sophie Eccleston of England is the number one bowler in the world. Now in such a situation, when the teams of India and England clash, how will we take our eyes off these two players?

This is the record of collision so far

This will be the 13th time in ODI cricket when Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Eccleston will face each other. Before this, when these two players collided 12 times, what was the record, now please know that. In those 12 innings, Smriti Mandhana scored 105 runs on 145 balls of Sophie Eccleston, in which Smriti became Sophie's victim 4 times.

Why do you need to be careful with Sophie?

There is a need to be careful with Sophie Eccleston in the Women's World Cup 2025 because she is a left-arm spinner. India is the team that has lost the most wickets against left-arm spinners in this World Cup. So far he has given 15 wickets to the left arm spinner.

Smriti and Sophie's performance in Women's World Cup 2025

Talking about Sophie Eccleston's performance in the Women's World Cup 2025, she has taken a total of 9 wickets in the 3 ODIs played so far.

That means their ratio is 3 wickets per match. Smriti Mandhana has scored 134 runs in the 4 ODIs played so far. In this, the innings of 80 runs in the last match played against Australia is important.

Mandhana nears milestone against England

Smriti Mandhana is also close to a milestone against England. He is 58 runs away from completing 1000 runs in ODIs against England. If she does this against England, she will become the second Indian woman after Mithali Raj. However, Harmanpreet Kaur is also just 45 runs away from touching this milestone. Sophie Eccleston has also dismissed Harmanpreet Kaur 3 times in the last 10 ODIs.

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