Shafali Verma is on fire these days. The 21-year-old cricketer from Rohtak in Haryana is playing as an opening batter for the Indian women’s cricket team in the ongoing five-match T20I series against Sri
Lanka, and in the four matches played so far, she has amassed a total of 236 runs. Shafali kicked off the series in Visakhapatnam on December 21 by scoring 9 runs from five balls and then registered scores of 69* (34 balls), 79* (42 balls) and 79 (46 balls) in the next three matches.
The 79-run knock by Shafali in the fourth India-Sri Lanka T20I played at Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday (December 28) helped her take her tally of runs to 236 in the ongoing series, which is a record for the most runs by an Indian batter in a women’s T20I series.
Before Shafali, the record of scoring the most runs in a T20 series for India was in the name of Smriti Mandhana. Mandhana played five T20Is against England in June-July 2025 and amassed a total of 221 runs.
Most runs in a women’s T20I series for India
| PLAYER | AGAINST | MATCHES | RUNS | VENUE | YEAR |
| Shafali Verma | Sri Lanka | 4* | 236 | India | 2025 |
| Smriti Mandhana | England | 5 | 221 | England | 2025 |
| Mithali Raj | Asia Cup | 4 | 220 | Thailand | 2016 |
| Jemimah Rodrigues | Asia Cup | 8 | 217 | Bangladesh | 2022 |
| Smriti Mandhana | Tri-series | 5 | 2016 | Australia | 2020 |
If Shafali manages to score at least 75 runs in the fifth and final T20I against Sri Lanka, which will be played on Tuesday (December 30) in Thiruvananthapuram, then she will break the world record of scoring the most runs in a T20I series.
As of now the record of scoring the most runs in a T20I series is in the name of West Indies skipper and star all-rounder Hayley Matthews.
Most runs in a T20I series in women’s cricket
| PLAYER | COUNTRY | MATCHES | RUNS | AGAINST | VENUE | YEAR |
| Hayley Matthews | West Indies | 3 | 310 | Australia | Australia | 2023 |
| Chamari Athapaththu | Sri Lanka | 5 | 304 | Asia Cup | Sri Lanka | 2024 |
| Maria Castiñeiras | Argentina | 3 | 300 | Chile | Argentina | 2023 |
| Sophie Devine | New Zealand | 4 | 297 | South Africa | New Zealand | 2020 |
| Rebecca Blake | Romania | 5 | 291 | Greece T20I Cricket Championship | Greece | 2023 |
Hayley played three T20Is for the Women in Maroon in October 2023 and, with the help of one century and two half-centuries, amassed a total of 310 runs.
She is followed by Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu, who amassed a total of 304 runs in five matches of the 2024 T20 Asia Cup.
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