Updated On: 24 October, 2025 09:46 AM IST | Mumbai | Subodh Mayure
Centurions Smriti Mandhana (109) and Pratika Rawal’s (122) record-breaking 212-run opening stand helps India post a mammoth 340-3 in do-or-die game against NZ; local girl Jemimah Rodrigues shines with unbeaten 76

Smriti Mandhana celebrates her century against New Zealand on Thursday; (right) Pratika Rawal during her 134-ball 122 vs NZ at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Thursday. Pics/Atul Kamble
India openers Pratika Rawal (122, 13x4, 2x6) and Smriti Mandhana (109, 10x4, 4x6) scored scintillating centuries while local girl Jemimah Rodrigues (55-ball 76 not out, 11x4) contributed a half-century as the hosts posted a mammoth 340-3 in 49 overs in the ICC Women’s ODI match against NZ at the DY Patil Stadium here on
Thursday.
The match was later rescheduled to 44 overs due to rain interruptions and the revised target for NZ was 325. The game was halted for the first time due to heavy showers when the hosts were on 329-2 after 48 overs with Rodrigues and skipper Harmanpreet Kaur on 69 and 10 respectively.
Put into bat, Mandhana and Rawal got just six runs on the board in the first four overs and India were 40 without loss after 10. Mandhana, who took nine balls to open her account, got her first four of the innings through a sweep against off-spinner Eden Carson in the seventh over of the innings. The left-hander, however, slowly but surely grew in confidence and, in Carson’s next over, danced down the track to smash her for a maximum over the long off fence.