Smriti Mandhana Most runs for India in WT20I: The Women's Asia Cup 2024 started today in Dambulla. On the very first day of the tournament, fans got a chance to enjoy the match between India and Pakistan, which Team India won by 7 wickets. In this match, Indian opener Smriti Mandhana's bat was in full swing and she played a stormy innings. During her strong innings, Smriti also made a special record in her name and left captain Harmanpreet Kaur behind.

Smriti Mandhana broke Harmanpreet Kaur's big record

In fact, the record for most runs in women's T20 International for Team India was till now in the name of Harmanpreet Kaur, but Smriti Mandhana managed to overtake her with her innings of 45 runs in 31 balls against Pakistan. Mandhana has 3365 runs in 137 matches, while Harmanpreet has 3349 runs in 170 matches.

Former retired captain Mithali Raj is in third place in terms of scoring the most runs in T20 International for the Indian women's team. Mithali has scored 2364 runs in 89 matches. At the same time, Jemima Rodrigues is in fourth place with 2000 runs in 96 matches. Jemima achieved the figure of two thousand runs in the match against Pakistan. Shefali Verma is in fifth place, who has scored 1788 runs in 77 matches.

Team India started Asia Cup 2024 with a win

The 7-time champion Indian team also started the Women's Asia Cup 2024 in a bang and defeated its arch-rival Pakistan by 7 wickets in the very first match. After winning the toss, Pakistan decided to bat first, which did not prove to be right. The Pakistani innings looked shaky from the beginning and no batsman could score big. Due to this, the team was reduced to a score of 108 in 19.2 overs without playing the full overs.

Chasing the target, Team India scored 109 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 14.1 overs and won the match. Smriti Mandhana scored the highest 45 runs, while Shefali also scored 40 runs.