Team India's star batsman Smriti Mandhana, who was playing a series in Australia to prepare for the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2026, finally lost her bat. Mandhana, who failed to play a big innings in the last match of the T20 series, showed her strength with her bat in the third match played in Adelaide and scored an excellent half-century. In this match, the Indian opener was out after coming very close to her century, but still she played an innings of 82 runs and along with it also created a special record.

In the third match of the series also on Saturday 21st February at Adelaide Oval ground, the Indian team came out to bat first. Where in the last match Mandhana only 31 runs Whereas this time he not only crossed this score but also scored his 35th half-century in T20 International. After the early dismissal of Shefali Verma, Mandhana along with Jemimah Rodrigues took charge of the innings and completed her half-century in 38 balls.

Mandhana missed a century

Once the fifty was completed, Mandhana intensified her attack and started showing the Australian bowlers the path to the boundary. In no time he added 30 runs in the next 15 balls. By hitting a six in the 17th over, Mandhana crossed the 80-run mark and it seemed that she would die only after scoring a century. But on the very next ball, while trying to hit a six again, she was caught out near the boundary.

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In this way, Mandhana missed her first T20 century on Australian soil and was out after scoring 82 runs in 55 balls. His innings included 8 fours and 3 sixes. During this, Mandhana along with Rodriguez made a partnership of 121 runs for the second wicket. After Mandhana's dismissal, Rodrigues and Richa Ghosh quickly scored some runs, with the help of which Team India scored 176 runs after losing 6 wickets in 20 overs.

Record made in Australia

During this innings, Smriti Mandhana also made a special record. She became the first Indian batsman to score more than 80 runs in an innings of a T20 match on Australian soil. Mandhana, who played T20 match in Australia for the first time in 2016, played her biggest T20 innings in this country after 10 years. Not only this, she has also become the first Indian batsman to score more than 500 runs in T20 International in Australia. He now has 529 runs to his name in 18 innings, which includes 4 half-centuries.