Twitter Reactions: Smriti Mandhana stormy hundred helps Western Storm storm to a 7-wicket win

Smriti Mandhana has been in the form of her life representing Western Storm in the ongoing Women’s Cricket Super League in England. She kicked-off her journey in the league with a quick-fire 48 and that set the tone for all the remaining matches as well. In her third outing, the left-hander scored the fastest fifty in the history of the tournament as she got past the mark in just 18 balls.

In the 15th match of the KSL, and Storm’s return fixture against Lancashire Thunder she scored her maiden hundred also the first in this edition of the league. This is overall the third hundred in the history of the tournament and the Indian now has the record of being the fastest among the three.

This time around in a chase of 153, Mandhana helped her side to a rather easy win with 7 wickets in hand. With this victory, Storm also made their way to the top of the league as all the six teams have played five matches each. The left-hander has thus far scored 282 runs in five innings and has an average of 56.

Lancashire batting first were helped to a decent enough total by their No.3 AE Satterthwaite who is also a left-hand bat. She scored 85 from 57 balls and stayed unbeaten to power her team to 153 in 20 overs as no other batter managed to score even 20 runs.

Mandhana lost her partner Priest pretty early in the second inning of the game as she was out caught for just 5 runs in the first over. The Indian continued to play in her own zone and dictate terms on the opposition. No Thunder bowler could tame her and the proceedings were moving swiftly in favour of Storm.

She got to her half century and continued to go strong. The southpaw hit boundaries at will and as many as 12 balls reached the ropes during her knock while four travelled over it. Her stay at the crease was for 61 balls which is half the overs allotted to her team and Mandhana made the best of it scoring 102 runs with a strike rate of 167. She accounted for almost 75% runs that her team scored and got them over the line quite comfortably with 5 balls to spare.

Here is how Twitterati reacted to her amazing knock:

Smriti Mandhana scores a hundred for @WesternStormKSL. Can she come over to Edgbaston, please?

— Saurabh Malhotra (@MalhotraSaurabh) August 3, 2018

Take a bow Smriti Mandhana! Absolutely lighting up #KSL2018. Early contender for Player of the Tournament?

— Raf Nicholson (@RafNicholson) August 3, 2018

Everyone in England Thinking how to Stop Virat Kohli & Smriti Mandhana. Both Bossing Everyone there.

— Johns (@CricCrazyJohns) August 3, 2018

Ask Smriti Mandhana to bat for you guys, she just scored a ton here. #EngvInd

— Monica (@monicas004) August 3, 2018

Smriti Mandhana vs Lancashire :-

– 102 Runs
– 61 Balls
– 12 Fours
– 4 Sixes #KSL2018 pic.twitter.com/brgU927uRO

— Johns (@CricCrazyJohns) August 3, 2018

And @mandhana_smriti smashes a 100 winning her team yet another game!! What a tournament she is having!! Wow! @Pvsindhu1 and @mandhana_smriti real celebration of Indian women’s sport.

— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) August 3, 2018

While everyone is busy watching England vs India Test.

Smriti Mandhana has scored a hundred in Women's Cricket Super League. pic.twitter.com/e0OqADOc0s

— Hit wicket (@sukhiaatma69) August 3, 2018

Can we have Smriti Mandhana open the batting at Lord's in the second Test? Just asking. #ENGvIND

— Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) August 3, 2018

100 for Smriti Mandhana😎😎 #KSL

— Abhishek Sarkar 🇮🇳 (@Iam_Abhi45) August 3, 2018

@WesternStormKSL won the match by 7 wickets l.Recording their fourth victory in #KSL2018 and #SmritiMandhana #smritimandhana #smritishow 102 #KSL2018 #StormTroopers pic.twitter.com/7D798AKfZE

— Smriti Mandhana FC (@smriti18fc) August 3, 2018

After the fastest fifty in the tournament's history, Smriti Mandhana comes up with a hundred! #KiaSuperLeague #Cricket

— Nitesh Sinkar (@snitesh11) August 3, 2018

@BCCI cant you take Smriti Mandhana in your team she can give better start than Dhawan /Murali/Rahul #IndiavsEngland #INDvENG

— Vivek SinghBhadouria (@vivek0728) August 3, 2018

Smriti Mandhana ❤️

Proud moment!

— Mahesh (@mbpune) August 3, 2018

Smriti Mandhana is in some seriously hot streat.#CantWatch #ENGvIND

— Dave Bird (@BardDave) August 3, 2018

We can get Smriti Mandhana in place of Dhawan. #ENGvsIND

— The Cricketer (@Cricket_Lama) August 3, 2018

Get in @WesternStormKSL what a chase and what an innings from Smriti Mandhana 💯

— Jacob Gibson (@Jacob_Gibson) August 3, 2018

Smriti Mandhana in KSL 2018 :-

1st Match – 48(20) @ SR of 240
2nd Match – 37(21) @ SR of 176.19
3rd Match – 52*(19) @ SR of 273.68
4th Match – 43*(27) @ SR of 159.3
5th Match – 102(61) @ SR of 167.21 #KSL2018

— Johns (@CricCrazyJohns) August 3, 2018