{"id":776596,"date":"2026-09-20T08:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776596\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T08:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:06:14","slug":"smriti-mandhana-creates-t20i-history-at-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776596\/","title":{"rendered":"Smriti Mandhana Creates T20I History at Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smriti Mandhana rewrote the T20I record books on Sunday, becoming the highest run-scorer in women&#8217;s T20Is during India&#8217;s Asian Games semifinal against Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgwidth\" title=\"Smriti Mandhana\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20smriti1.jpg\" alt=\"Smriti Mandhana\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Smriti Mandhana became the highest run-scorer in women&#8217;s T20Is. Photograph: BCCI Women\/X<\/p>\n<p>Key Points<\/p>\n<p>Smriti Mandhana became the highest run-scorer in women&#8217;s T20Is.<br \/>\nShe surpassed New Zealand&#8217;s Suzie Bates&#8217; tally of 4,758 runs.<br \/>\nMandhana reached the milestone in her 178th T20I, in 171 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Smriti Mandhana added another milestone to her glittering T20I career on Sunday, becoming the highest run-scorer in women&#8217;s T20Is during India&#8217;s Asian Games 2026 semifinal against Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Mandhana Rewrites T20I Record Book<\/p>\n<p>The India vice-captain reached the landmark after scoring eight runs in the third over, moving past New Zealand great Suzie Bates at the top of the run charts.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old achieved the feat in her 178th T20I, doing so in 171 innings, while Bates had scored 4,758 runs in 178 innings. Mandhana had missed India&#8217;s quarter-final win over Japan on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>She is also the format&#8217;s most prolific batter for 50-plus scores, with two centuries and 36 fifties.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgwidth\" title=\"Smriti Mandhana\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20smriti2.jpg\" alt=\"Smriti Mandhana\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mandhana is also India&#8217;s leading six-hitter in T20Is and has now completed the milestone of 100 sixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smriti Mandhana rewrote the T20I record books on Sunday, becoming the highest run-scorer in women&#8217;s T20Is during India&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[248108,17266,1721,308,386,101429,620,101,96092,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asian-games","tag-bangladesh","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-japan","tag-mandhana","tag-new-zealand","tag-sports","tag-suzie-bates","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}