Indian cricket star Smriti Mandhana has added another feather to her cap, becoming only the second Indian woman to score 10,000 runs in international cricket. She reached this massive milestone during the fourth T20 International match against Sri Lanka at the Greenfield International Stadium. With this feat, she joins an elite list that includes legends like Mithali Raj, Suzie Bates, and Charlotte Edwards.

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Mandhana played a brilliant knock of 80 runs from just 48 balls, hitting 11 boundaries and three sixes. Her performance helped India post their highest-ever T20I score of 221/2 and secure a convincing win. However, despite the record-breaking numbers, Mandhana remains incredibly grounded. Speaking in a video shared by the Indian cricket team, she explained that past glory doesn't help when you walk out to bat today.

"I mean, that's never the case where we are like, we've done it before. I feel that, in cricket, you have to start from zero again," Mandhana said. "The scoreboard is always zero for zero. It's never what you've done in the last match or previous series as well."

She also opened up about the mental aspect of playing three different formats. She revealed that she judges herself differently depending on the game.

"My internal expectations for all three formats are very different," she explained. "Of course, T20 is slightly in a way where you can't be extremely hard with yourself after getting out because you're playing at a pace where there are days where it'll come off, there are days where it won't."

However, for the longer formats, she is much stricter. "I'm really, really tough on myself with one-day cricket and test cricket because, of course, you have a lot of time. If you get out there, it feels like a sin for me," she admitted. She emphasised the importance of moving on quickly from failures, noting, "If I had thought a lot about the first three matches, we had only one day before this one."

Reflecting on the team's journey, including the massive ODI World Cup victory earlier, Mandhana described the young Indian squad as constantly evolving.

"So it's about just your mind around how you want to go about your cricket. The ODI World Cup win was the biggest thing for women's cricket, and we did kick off that one. So it's a big, big win. But again, you can't be thinking only about successes," she said.

"We've had times when we could have won matches, but we couldn't this year. And again, I feel with this team being this young, we are always in work in progress."