On Wednesday, the third T20I was held between India and England in which the opener from the side of India was Smriti Mandhana and she had hit a breathtaking 51-ball 70. Her energetic knock was with eight fours and two sixes, the Indian team decided to opt for batting first which lead to a disastrous opening. Shafali Verma, the opener of the match was lost by the team for a two-ball duck.
With this, the Indian women team thought that they will put up everything together before the attack from the English players. however, for the game, the most dependable player, Mandhana marked up her 13th T20I fifty.
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After this notch, look at what some famous people from the cricket fraternity wish to say about the same:
Dinesh Karthik, an Indian cricketer tweeted, “Lovely knock by @mandhana_smriti today. Good effort and some entertaining cricket by the @BCCIWomen team throughout the summer in the UK. They fought and tried hard every single game. Well done to the England team on winning both the white ball series. Now @thehundred is next(heart)”
The editor of WomensCricZone magazine, Ananya Upendran shared a GIF and captioned it as, “Me every time Smriti Mandhana plays a sweep shot:”
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The Internation Cricket Council posted Smriti’s photo and wrote, “Stunning knock from Smriti Mandhana! @BCCIWomen post 153/6 in the third T20I.”
Though the India team lost the third T20I match by eight wickets and England’s Danielle Wyatt stole the show as she scored 89 runs 56 balls, no one can disagree that Smriti Mandana had made a real difference in the match.