Daily Current Affairs / Smriti Mandhana became the first Indian woman to score a century in Day/Night Test
Category : Sports Published on: October 04 2021
· Opener Batsman Smriti Mandhana became the first Indian woman to score a century in a pink-ball Test Cricket in Queensland, Australia with her scintillating batting.
· This is also the first century by an Indian woman on Australian soil.
· Mandhana created history by reaching her maiden Test century in 171 balls on the second day against Australia.
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