Mandhana missed a century at Lord’s (Photo-GETTY IMAGES)
Smriti Mandhana has played many excellent innings in her career, but the 83 runs she has scored at Lord’s, which is called the Mecca of cricket, will be remembered for her whole life. Women’s Test is being held for the first time on the historic ground of Lord’s and this left-handed opening batsman scored a brilliant half-century in the first innings against England. Although Smriti Mandhana could have scored a century, she had easily reached 83 runs but then a mistake ended her game and she missed the century.
How did Mandhana miss scoring a century at Lord’s?
Smriti Mandhana Played many captivating shots at Lord’s. He bravely faced the swinging balls and hit 11 fours and one six in his innings but then he lost his wicket in the 45th over on a simple ball from EC Wong. Mandhana tried to cut the ball outside the off stump and the ball took the edge of her bat, English wicketkeeper Amy Jones caught it easily. This shot of Mandhana was very bad because the ball was far outside the off stump. But Mandhana did it wrong and she was punished for missing a century at Lord’s. Let us tell you that the name of the batsman who scores a century at Lord’s is written in the honor board present there. Achieving this position is the dream of every great batsman in the world. And Mandhana would have been the first female cricketer in the world to achieve this feat.
HUGE wicket of Mandhana 👏
Wong gets her reward pic.twitter.com/37avyaYT0j
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) July 10, 2026
Harmanpreet Kaur also showed strength
Well, Mandhana missed out on a century, while on the other hand, captain Harmanpreet Kaur also missed the chance to play a big innings. This right-handed batsman played an innings of 58 runs in 121 balls. There is no mistake of Harmanpreet because she was bowled by the excellent ball of England off-spinner Villiers. Hardly any batsman had an answer to this ball, it could have been avoided only by luck.
Let us tell you that Team India had a very bad start. Opener Shefali Verma settled for 0 after playing 4 balls. After this, Lauren Bell bowled Yastika Bhatia on the personal score of 12 runs. Jemimah Rodrigues, who came to bat at number four, scored runs quickly and scored 35 runs. He was also bowled by Wong.
