Day of records

Records tumbled like ninepins as the Indian womenrsquos cricket team powered by skipper Smriti Mandhanarsquos 70ball century demolished Ireland by a whopping 304 runs to claim its biggestever ODI win and complete a 30 clean sweep here on WednesdayThe result of the match was a mere formality once India set Ireland a massive target of 436 and Ireland could only garner 131 before getting bundled out in 314 oversIndia put the first step forward towards a crushing victory through recordbreaking Mandhana 135 80b 12x4 7x6 and her opening partner Pratika Rawal 154 129b 20x4 1x6 reaching 4355 the highest total by an Indian team mdash menrsquos or womenrsquos mdash in ODIsPratika Rawal celebrates her century in Rajkot yesterday She scored 154 right rarr Smriti Mandhana en route her 135 yesterday PicsBCCIIndia menrsquos highest ODI total is 4185 made against the West Indies in Indore in 2011Mandhana and Rawal added a whopping 233 runs for the first wicket in just 264 overs and there was no looking backDeepti Tanuja shine with ballThen spinners Tanuja Kanwar 231 and Deepti Sharma 327 took over sharing five wickets among them to decimate the Irish lineup which was well short on experienceOrla Prendergast 36 and Sarah Forbes 41 added 64 runs for a fluent third wicket stand that helped Ireland to recover from a shaky 24 for two to reach 88 without further damageBut once Prendergast was cleaned up by Kanwar India were all over the tourists like a bad rash claiming the remaining seven wickets for just 33 runsIt also helped India eclipse their previous largest margin of victory by runs mdash 249 registered against the same opposition in 2017 at Potchefstroom South AfricalsquoOnslaught was plannedrsquoMandhana said her recordbreaking onslaught on the Irish bowlers was planned but despite her teamrsquos clean sweep ldquoIt onslaught was planned I was just thinking not many matches you can go out and attack So I thought of trying a few shots Sometimes it comes off sometimes it doesnrsquot Today it didrdquo said Mandhana after the match3No of times both openers have scored tons in ODIs70No of balls taken by Smriti Mandhana to complete her century the fastest by an Indian in womenrsquos ODIs233No of runs put on by Mandhana and Rawal for the opening wicket is the thirdhighest stand for India in womenrsquos ODIs310No of runs scored by Pratika Rawal in three ODIs against Ireland 10333Brief scoresIndia 4355 in 50 overs P Rawal 154 S Mandhana 135 R Ghosh 59 O Prendergast 271 beat Ireland 131 all out in 314 overs S Forbes 41 O Prendergast 36 D Sharma 327 T Kanwar 231 by 304 runsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever