Deepti Sharma becomes the highest wicket taker in WT20Is


1 - Deepti Sharma became the highest wicket-taker in women's T20 Internationals during the fifth T20Iagainst Sri Lanka in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday. She reached the milestone with her 152nd T20I wicket in 133 matches since her debut in 2016. Deepti surpassed Australia's pace bowler Meghan Schutt's tally. Pakistan's Nida Dar is third in the list with 144 scalps.
Deepti is also the first player, male or female, in history to score over 1000 runs and take 150-plus wickets in the T20I format. She is the first woman to take 150-plus wickets in both ODIs and T20Is.
Most wickets in Women's T20Is
| Player | Team | Matches | Wickets | Avg | BBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deepti Sharma | India | 133 | 152 | 19.0 | 4/10 |
| Meghan Shutt | Australia | 123 | 151 | 17.7 | 5/15 |
| Nida Dar | Pakistan | 160 | 144 | 20.2 | 5/21 |
| Henriette Ishimwe | Rwanda | 117 | 144 | 10.3 | 5/6 |
| Sophie Ecclestone | England | 101 | 142 | 15.7 | 4/18 |
In the process, Deepti Sharma is also closing in on Jhulan Goswami's record for most wickets in women's international cricket. Deepti has 334 wickets (20 in Tests, 162 in ODIs, 152 in T20Is), while Goswami leads with 355 wickets (44 in Tests, 255 in ODIs, 56 in T20Is). England's Katherine Sciver-Brunt is just ahead of Deepti with 335 wickets.
1703 - International runs Smriti Mandhana has scored in 2025, which is the most by a batter in a calendar year in women's cricket. She bettered her own tally of 1659 runs in 2024.
10053 - runs for Smriti Mandhana in international cricket, making her the fourth batter and second Indian (after Mithali Raj) to cross 10,000 runs in women's cricket. The other two batters to achieve this are Charlotte Edwards and Suzie Bates.
She is also the youngest and fastest to get there in terms of innings taken (280), bettering Mithali Raj (291 innings). Both Charlotte Edwards (308) and Suzie Bates (314) took more than 300 innings each to reach 10,000 international runs.
Most runs in Women's international cricket
| Player | Teams | Matches | Runs | 100s/50s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mithali Raj | India | 333 | 10,868 | 8/85 |
| Suzie Bates | New Zealand | 355 | 10,652 | 14/65 |
| Charlotte Edwards | England | 309 | 10,273 | 13/67 |
| Smriti Mandhana | India | 281 | 10,053 | 17/69 |
| Stafanie Taylor | West Indies | 296 | 9301 | 7/63 |
| Harmanpreet Kaur | India | 354 | 8393 | 8/38 |
4102 - Smriti Mandhana completed 4000 runs in T20Is during the first match of this series. She is only the second woman to reach there after New Zealand's Suzie Bates (4716 runs). Mandhana is quickest to do so in terms of balls taken (3227) surpassing Bates, who took 3675 balls to reach the 4000 runs milestone.
Mandhana hit 80 sixes in women's T20Is, the most by an Indian, surpassing Harmanpreet's 79. She ranks fourth overall, behind Deandra Dottin (129), Sophie Devine (114), and Chamari Athapaththu (95). Smriti has 33 50-plus scores in WT20Is, the most by a batter, followed by 29 each for Suzie Bates and Beth Mooney.
221 - India Women's highest-ever total in women's T20Is they scored during 4th T20I against Sri Lanka, surpassing their previous best of 217/4 against West Indies in Navi Mumbai in 2024. This is also the fourth time they crossed 200 in this format. From full-member sides, only Australia Women (six times) have scored more 200-plus totals than India.
It is also the highest total in Women's T20Is without an individual century, bettering their own 217/4 they scored against the West Indies at DY Patil in 2024. Third on the list is England's 213/5, which they smashed against Pakistan Women in Cape Town at the 2023 World Cup.
Highest totals for India Women in T20Is
| Total | Opponent | Venue | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 221/2 | Sri Lanka | Trivandrum | 2025 |
| 217/4 | West Indies | DY Patil | 2024 |
| 210/5 | England | Trent Bridge | 2025 |
| 201/5 | UAE | Dambulla | 2024 |
| 198/4 | England | Brabourne | 2018 |
8 - sixes hit by India Women in the fourth game is the second-most they scored in a women's T20I innings, behind the nine they hit against Australia at the DY Patil Stadium in 2022..
191 - Sri Lanka Women also scored their highest-ever T20I total in the same match, surpassing their previous highest of 184/4 against Malaysia Women in Dambulla at the 2024 Asia Cup.
412 runs were scored across the two innings in the fourth India-Sri Lanka T20I, the third-highest match aggregate in a Women's T20I and the second-highest involving two full-member teams, behind 425 runs by Australia and West Indies at North Sydney in 2023. The only higher match aggregate is Argentina vs Chile (490) in 2023. These are the only three women's T20Is with over 400 runs scored. The 412-run aggregate is also the highest in a women's T20I without an individual century.
The 162-run opening stand between Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma in the fourth game is India Women's highest partnership for any wicket in T20Is, surpassing their own 143-run stand they added against West Indies in Gros Islet in 2019. The duo also holds India's top three T20I partnerships. The 162-run effort by the Indian openers is also the third-highest for opening wickets from a full-member team.
Highest partnership for India Women in T20Is (any wicket)
162 - Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma vs SL, Trivandrum, 2025*
143 - Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma vs WI, Gros Islet, 2019
137 - Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma vs AUS, DY Patil, 2024
134 - Harmanpreet Kaur, J Rodrigues vs NZ, Providence, 2018 WC
130 - Thirush Kamini, Punam Raut vs BAN, Vadodara, 2013
4 - It was the fourth 100-plus opening stand between Mandhana and Shafali, which is the joint second-most in Women's T20Is. Only UAE's Esha Oza and Theertha Satish have more (6) century opening partnerships. Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney also added four hundred stands together for the first wicket in this format.
3107 runs scored by Mandhana and Shafali together, the first pair in women's T20Is to exceed 3000-plus partnership runs for any wicket. They also lead with 24 fifty-plus stands, four more than the pair with 20 such partnerships (Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney).
Most 100-plus opening stands in Women's T20Is
6 - Esha Oza, Theertha Satish (UAE-W)
4 - Alyssa Healy, Beth Mooney (AUS-W)
4 - Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma (IND-W)*
Most partnerships run in Women's T20Is (any wicket)
3107 - Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma (IND-W)*
2720 - Alyssa Healy, Beth Mooney (AUS-W)
2579 - Esha Oza, Theertha Satish (UAE-W)
2556 - Suzie Bates, Sophie Devine (NZ-W)
1976 - Kavisha Egodage, Esha Oza (UAE-W)
3 - Shafali Verma scored three successive fifties during this series against Sri Lanka. Only Mithali Raj (four in 2016-18) and Smriti Mandhana (four in 2024-25) have had more consecutive 50-plus scores for India Women in T20Is. Shafali has 13 50-plus scores in her T20I career so far, which is the most by a batter in Women's T20I before turning 22.
Most consecutive 50-plus scores for IND-W (T20Is)
4 - Mithali Raj (2016-18)
4 - Smriti Mandhana (2024-25)
3 - Shafali Verma (2025)
241 - Runs scored by Shafali Verma in this series are the most by an India Women batter in a bilateral T20I series, bettering 221 runs scored by Smriti Mandhana against England Women in an away series earlier this year in July. Shafali has now won three player of the series awards - the joint-most for India Women in T20Is alongside Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet, and Deepti Sharma.
68.69 - Percent of India's runs Shafali Verma scored during her knock of unbeaten 79 runs in the third T20I, which is the highest percentage of runs scored by a single woman batter in a completed innings for India in T20Is, bettering Harmanpreet Kaur's 66.12 percent runs scored against Australia at Billericay in 2011.
13.82- Run rate in Richa Ghosh and Harmanpreet Kaur's unbeaten 53-run stand off 23 balls, India's second-highest for a 50-plus runs partnership in T20Is. The record is 57 runs off 24 balls (RR: 14.25) between Mithali Raj and Jemimah Rodrigues against Sri Lanka at Katunayake in 2018.
5-0 scoreline of this series is India Women's third 5-0 series win in T20Is. They previously achieved this feat against West Indies in 2019 (away) and Bangladesh in 2024 (away). Sri Lanka Women have played only four five-match T20I series, and this is the first instance they lost by a 5-0 margin. It is only the seventh instance of a 5-0 clean sweep by a side in matches between two full-member teams.
4 - Fourth consecutive series victory for India Women against Sri Lanka in T20Is. The only time they lost a series against them was in 2014 in India. It is the sixth successive victory for India Women against Sri Lanka, who have won 12 of their last 14 head-to-head encounters since 2020 in T20Is.
25 victory by India Women against Sri Lanka Women is the fourth most wins by a team against an opponent in Women's T20Is.
12 - Harmanpreet Kaur has now won 12 player of the match awards - the joint-most for India in Women's T20Is, along with Mithali Raj. She won 79 matches (including super overs) as a captain, the most by any skipper in Women's T20Is, surpassing Meg Lanning (76 wins). Kaur also has 18 wins against Sri Lanka - the most by a captain against an opponent in this format.
Most PoTM awards for India Women in T20Is
12 - Harmanpreet Kaur*
12 - Mithali Raj
8 - Shafali Verma
8 - Smriti Mandhana
8 - Chamari Athapaththu became the first Sri Lankan and overall eighth player to have 150 appearances in women's T20Is. During her milestone match, she scored 52 runs and became only the third woman batter to have scored 50-plus runs in her 150th appearance in T20Is.
50-plus scores in her 150th appearances in WT20Is
75 (47) - D Wyatt-Hodge vs IND-W, Wankhede, 2023
55 (38) - Alyssa Healy vs IND-W, DY Patil, 2024
52 (37) - Chamari Athapaththu vs IND-W, Trivandrum, 2025*
81 - First fifty for Hasini Perera in her 81st T20I innings. Among full-member teams, only New Zealand's Maddy Green (92 innings) has taken more innings for her maiden fifty in the T20I format. Among all batters who have faced at least 1000-plus balls from a full-member team, Hasini Perera's average of 13.54 is the second-lowest in women's T20Is, behind Bangladesh's Rumana Ahmed (13.12).





