Smriti Mandhana geared up for the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 in style with the fastest ODI hundred by an Indian batter (across genders) during the third game against Australia women in New Delhi on Saturday. It was her second consecutive hundred in the series, having scored 117 in the second game in New Chandigarh.

Chasing a mammoth 413 runs to win, India lost opener Pratika Rawal early. However, it was Mandhana all over as she dispatched the Australian bowlers at will to reach three figures in just 50 balls, surpassing Virat Kohli’s 52-ball hundred, also against Australia in 2013.

The southpaw was finally dismissed by Grace Harris for 125 off 63 balls in the 22nd over, which was laced by 17 fours and five sixes. Earlier, Mandhana reached his fifty in just 23 balls, thus smashing the fastest half-century by an Indian woman in ODIs. She surpassed Richa Ghosh’s record who reached her fifty in 26 balls against New Zealand.