WWC 2017, Match 7: West Indies v India – Statistical Highlights

India registered their second straight win in the Women’s World Cup with yet another all-round performance as they defeated West Indies by 7 wickets. Some brilliant bowling from the Indian spinners restricted the West Indies to 183/8 in the 50 overs. India lost a couple of early wickets but Smriti Mandhana, scoring her maiden WWC century put on a 108-run stand with captain Mithali Raj to complete their 19th win in the last 20 ODIs.

Here we look at all the stats and records created during the game.

1 – Smriti Mandhana is the first Indian to receive the Player of the Match awards in consecutive Women’s World Cup matches. Previously three Indians have taken multiple players of the match awards in Women’s World Cup but none in consecutive games.

4 – Smriti Mandhana is only the 4th Indian player to score a century in the Women’s World Cup. Thirush Kamini, Harmanpreet Kaur and Mithali Raj are the other three players.

6 – Number of times India and West Indies have faced each other in Women’s World Cup; India won all the 6. Only New Zealand (7 vs Ireland) has won more game in WWC against a single opponent with 100% win record.

20y 346d – Age of Smriti Mandhana coming to this game; she became the 3rd youngest player to score a century in the Women’s World Cup and the youngest from India.

46 – Runs scored by Mithali Raj in this game. She fell short of the 8th consecutive ODI fifty and 10th consecutive fifty in International cricket by a margin of 4 runs.

100 – This match was the 100th ODI for Stafanie Taylor and Deandra Dottin. They became the 2nd and 3rd player to represent West Indies in 100 ODIs in Women’s cricket. Only Anisa Mohammed (103) has played more than the two.

102 – Number of matches Mithali Raj has played as captain in Women’s ODI cricket; the 2nd most behind Charlotte Edwards (117). Mithali went past Belinda Clark who has led her side in 101 ODIs.

106* – Smriti Mandhana’s unbeaten 106 is the 2nd highest among the 4 centuries recorded for India in run-chases in Women’s ODIs. Harmanpreet Kaur scored 107* vs England in 2013 but it came in a losing cause.

109.68 – Mithali Raj’s batting average of 109.68 in successful run-chases in Women’s ODIs is the 2nd highest for any player. (Min: 500 runs) New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite averages 111.88 in successful chases in ODIs.