Smriti Mandhana became the first woman cricketer to score 11,000 runs in international cricket, reaching the landmark during India's Asian Games gold-medal final against Sri Lanka at Kōrogi Sports Park on September 22. She went into the innings needing 13 runs for the milestone and got there inside the first three overs, going on to make 79 off 45 balls in India's 147-run win.
Mandhana entered the final on 10,987 combined runs across Tests, ODIs and T20Is — 788 in Tests, 5,411 in ODIs and 4,788 in T20Is — and needed just 13 more to become the first woman to reach 11,000. She got there with two boundaries in the opening over followed by a six in the third, reaching the mark inside the powerplay before going on to anchor India's innings to 216 for 3.
The 11,000-run mark caps a run of records for Mandhana in a short span. Earlier in the same Asian Games campaign, during the semi-final against Bangladesh, she passed New Zealand's Suzie Bates to become the leading run-scorer in women's T20I history. She also moved past former India captain Mithali Raj's tally to become the leading run-scorer in women's international cricket across all three formats combined — a record that had stood since Raj's retirement.
Reaching 11,000 international runs is a mark only a handful of men's players have managed, and Mandhana getting there first among women underlines both her longevity and consistency across formats since her debut roughly a decade ago. It arrives at a point when she is already established as India's vice-captain in white-ball cricket and one of the format's most closely tracked batters for fantasy contests, given her record of converting starts into substantial totals in bilateral and multi-team events alike.
India's white-ball focus now shifts to a home assignment against West Indies, with the men's ODI series starting September 27, while Mandhana and India's women's group turn attention to their next scheduled assignments after a gold-medal-winning Asian Games campaign.
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Career run totals and record details are verified against same-day reporting on Mandhana's milestone, current as of September 24, 2026.
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