{"id":605514,"date":"2026-09-04T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/605514\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:08:21","slug":"mandhana-becomes-top-womens-run-scorer-as-india-put-hong-kong-to-sword-in-asia-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/605514\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandhana becomes top women\u2019s run-scorer as India put Hong Kong to sword in Asia Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">India\u2019s Smriti Mandhana became the leading \u2060run-scorer in women\u2019s \u2060international cricket after smashing \u2060a century in her side\u2019s Women\u2019s Asia Cup thrashing of Hong Kong on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The India vice-captain surpassed former skipper Mithali Raj\u2019s tally of 10,868 international runs during a \u200cblistering 124 off 64 balls, including 14 fours and seven sixes. Mandhana now has 10,880 runs across formats.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The left-hander also posted her 18th international century, moving past former Australia captain Meg Lanning and South Africa\u2019s Laura Wolvaardt, who both have 17 hundreds, \u2060to become the leading century-maker in women\u2019s international cricket.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">India scored 193 for five in their 20 overs in Dubai and then bowled out Hong Kong for just 56, winning by 137 runs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI didn\u2019t know \u200call of this happened,\u201d Mandhana said. \u201cBut I love batting and am happy to contribute. There are days when \u200cyou hit balls from the stumps. There are days when \u2060you edge one. \u2060It\u2019s extremely unpredictable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mandhana\u2019s knock powered India to their impressive total after they were put in \u200cto bat, with opener Shafali Verma\u2019s 28 the next-highest score in the innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Smriti Mandhana became the leading \u2060run-scorer in women\u2019s \u2060international cricket after smashing \u2060a century in her side\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11699,972,59109,1120,3448,85,207,46,273815,273817,273816,273813,269603,273814,59107,105,273818],"class_list":["post-605514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asia-cup","tag-australia","tag-deepti-sharma","tag-dubai","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-india","tag-israel","tag-laura-wolvaardt","tag-marina-lamplough","tag-meg-lanning","tag-mithali-raj","tag-natasha-miles","tag-shafali-verma","tag-smriti-mandhana","tag-sports","tag-yasmin-daswani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}