Pratika Rawal slammed her maiden Girls’s World Cup century as India have been firmly within the driver’s seat within the essential league match towards New Zealand on Thursday in Navi Mumbai. This was the 25-year-old’s 2nd ODI century with the batter Rawal additionally turning into the joint-fastest girl to achieve 1000 ODI runs in solely 23 innings, equalling a 37-year-old file held by Australia’s Lindsay Reeler.
Rawal acquired to her century on Thursday in 122 deliveries in an innings peppered with 13 fours. India vice-captain Smriti Mandhana and Rawal’s opening accomplice additionally scored a century earlier than departing for 109 runs. To get to her ton, Mandhana took 88 deliveries in an innings studded with 10 fours and 4 sixes. It was additionally her fifth century in a calendar 12 months, tying Tazmin Britts within the first place who additionally has 5 in 2025 as effectively. Mandhana additionally climbed to the second place within the record for gamers to have most 100s in ODIs with 14, only one lower than Australia’s Meg Lanning.
The 212-run partnership for the opening wicket between Pratika and Mandhana is the fourth highest for the opening wicket and fifth highest for any wicket for India in girls’s ODIs. The 320-run partnership between Deepti Sharma and Punam Raut towards Eire in 2017 stays the very best opening as effectively any wicket partnership for India in girls’s ODIs. The 212-run partnership is the thirtieth highest partnership for any wicket in girls’s ODI and fifteenth highest for the opening wicket in girls’s ODIs.
Earlier, New Zealand skipper Sophie Devine received the toss and elected to bowl towards India on Thursday. Hosts India, who’re on a three-match shedding streak, have made one change, bringing again the skilled Jemimah Rodrigues instead of all-rounder Amanjot Kaur. New Zealand, who’ve had two video games washed out, are unchanged.
India Girls: Pratika Rawal, Smriti Mandhana, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh(w), Sneh Rana, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani, Renuka Singh Thakur.
New Zealand Girls: Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Devine(c), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Inexperienced, Isabella Gaze(w), Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Lea Tahuhu, Eden Carson.