Indian women’s team’s opening batsman Smriti Mandhana has made a big achievement in her name during the ODI World Cup match against South Africa. Actually, Mandhana has become the batsman who has scored the most runs in a calendar year. She has broken the 28-year-old record of former Australia women’s team cricketer Belinda Clark. Mandhana’s bat did not work against Africa on Thursday. She could score only 23 runs in 32 balls.
Smriti Mandhana could not convert a good start into a big innings against Africa. He scored 23 runs in 32 balls with the help of one four and as many sixes. Thanks to this inning, he has broken the calendar year ODI record of former Australian cricketer Belinda Clark. Let us tell you that Belinda had scored 970 runs in 1997, whereas Smriti Mandhana has scored more than 980 runs.
South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt is at third place in this list, who had scored 882 runs in 2022. Debbie Hockley of New Zealand had scored 880 runs in 1997. Amy Satterthwaite scored 853 runs in ODIs in a calendar year in 2016.