Records were broken and landmarks were reached when India took on Bangladesh in the semi-final of the 2026 Asian Games in Nisshin. Here's a recap.
100* Shafali Verma became the first woman to score a hundred in the Asian Games. Chamari Athapaththu's 83* against Pakistan in the first semi-final few hours before Shafali's blitz was the previous highest score by a woman in the competition's history.
9 Sixes hit by Shafali, the joint-second-most by any batter in a women's T20I innings, behind only Brazil's Laura Agatha, who hit 11 sixes against Mexico in 2024.
Shafali's nine sixes are the most by an India batter in a women's T20I innings, surpassing Harmanpreet Kaur's eight against New Zealand in the 2018 T20 World Cup.
12 Sixes hit by India against Bangladesh, the most in a women's T20I innings. West Indies (against Ireland in 2019) and Brazil (against Mexico in 2024) hit eleven sixes each.
1 Shafali became the first batter to score a hundred in women's T20Is in Japan. Hong Kong's Natasha Miles scored 86* against Japan in 2022, the previous highest.
Smriti Mandhana is now the leading run-scorer in T20Is
Smriti Mandhana is now the leading run-scorer in T20IsBCCI
4788 Runs scored by Smriti Mandhana in T20Is. She is now the leading run-scorer in women's T20Is and also in all T20I cricket (men or women), surpassing Suzie Bates' 4758 runs.
195 for 4 India's total against Bangladesh is the second-highest in the Asian Games women's competition. Hong Kong's 202 for 4 against Mongolia at Hangzhou in 2023 is the highest.
49 Number of balls taken by Shafali for her century - it is the joint-fastest for India in women's T20Is. Harmanpreet's hundred against New Zealand in 2018 also took 49 balls. Shafali's hundred is India's fourth in women's T20Is, with Mandhana scoring the other two.
104 Total sixes hit by Shafali in T20Is, the most by an Indian and the fourth-most by any batter in women's T20Is. Shafali became the second Indian to hit 100 sixes, while Mandhana became the first to reach 100 with two sixes on Sunday.
Shafali hit 35 of those 104 sixes in 2026 alone, the most by a woman in a calendar year. She went past Athapaththu, who hit 32 sixes in 2024.