India’s Renuka Singh Thakur joined an <a href="https://sports-info.online/2025/01/15/cricket/smriti-mandhanas-fastest-ton-sees-india-shatter-multiple-odi-records/” title=”Smriti Mandhana's Fastest Ton Sees India Shatter Multiple ODI Records”>elite list of compatriots when she dismissed Qiana Joseph off the first ball of the innings in the third ODI against West Indies in Vadodara on Friday.
The pacer joined Amita Sharma and Jhulan Goswami as the third Indian woman to take a wicket off the first ball of the innings in an ODI match.
Indian women who have taken a wicket off the first ball of the innings in an ODI:
Amita Sharma v NZ, 2003
Jhulan Goswami v SA, 2017
Jhulan Goswami v SA, 2019
Renuka Singh v WI, 2024