India’s opener Smriti Mandhana has reached her career-best T20I rating after scoring three fifties in as many games during the recent series against the West Indies.
Mandhana ended 2024 with 767 runs in 23 T20Is, averaging 42.38. It is the most any batter in women’s T20Is has made in a calendar year, with no other player equalling her tally of eight fifties in a year either.
She finished off the sensational year with three successive T20I fifties in the home series against the West Indies, making 54, 62 and 77 at the DY Patil Stadium.
It has helped her attain a career-best T20I rating of 753 as she moved within four points of top-placed Beth Mooney. She also moved up a place and is now No.2 in the ICC batting charts for T20Is, equalling her career-best position on the charts. Mandhana had last risen to No.2 in 2022.
