Smriti Mandhana continued her dream run of form, smashing her way to a 60-ball-hundred as she powered Western Storm to an an easy seven-wicket win over Lancashire Thunder in the Women’s T20 Super League encounter.
Smriti hit 102 off 61 balls as Storm chased a target of 154 set by the home team in just 18.4 overs. The left-handed opener hit 12 boundaries and four sixes during her whirlwind knock. This was her first Twenty20 hundred in franchise cricket. The 22-year-old has five half centuries in the format.
Interestingly, India’s T20 skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, failed to open her account for Thunder, and was run out for a first-ball duck. Mandhana’s sequence of scores in the competition so far has been 48, 37, 52* from 19 balls, 43* from 27 balls and 102 off 61 balls. The left-hander now has 282 runs to her name at whopping average of 94. She is also the top run-getter in the tournament and has brought up her runs at an astounding strike-rate of 190.54.
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