India Women Most Runs: International Records

Mithali Raj scored 10,868 runs in international cricket for India between 1999 and 2022 — 7,805 in one-day internationals, 2,364 in Twenty20 internationals and 699 in Tests. It is the highest career aggregate in the history of women's cricket, and only two other players in the world, Charlotte Edwards and Suzie Bates, have passed ten thousand at all.

That record is now close to being taken. Smriti Mandhana passed Bates during 2026 to become the second-highest run scorer in women's international cricket, and by the end of August 2026 she was a little over a hundred runs behind Raj. She is thirty and still playing.

Behind those two the list falls away sharply. Harmanpreet Kaur has passed eight thousand runs across a career that began in 2009 and, in June 2026, made her the first cricketer of either sex to play two hundred Twenty20 internationals. Nobody else in India's history is close to seven thousand.

The career leaders

Player	Span	International runs	Notes
Mithali Raj	1999-2022	10,868	Test 699, ODI 7,805, T20I 2,364
Smriti Mandhana	2013-	past 10,700	Highest ODI average of the group
Harmanpreet Kaur	2009-	past 8,000	200 T20I appearances, a first in the game

Raj's figure is fixed; she retired in June 2022. Mandhana's and Kaur's move with every match, so they are given in the terms in which they can be relied on rather than as a precise total that will be wrong within a fortnight.

Mithali Raj's 7,805 in one-day internationals

The ODI column is where the record was really built. Raj made 7,805 runs in 232 matches at an average of 50.68, with seven hundreds and 64 fifties, and the next player on the all-time list — Charlotte Edwards — finished more than 1,800 behind.

An average above fifty across a twenty-three-year one-day career is the single most durable number in Indian women's cricket. It was accumulated across an era in which India played far fewer matches than they do now, on tours that were often short, against attacks with the new ball that were consistently better than the batting they faced.

She also holds the distinction of the longest career in the women's game: a debut in 1999 at sixteen, a final match in the 2022 World Cup, and a captaincy that spanned most of the middle of it. The story of that period is on the India women's cricket history guide.

Smriti Mandhana's approach to the record

Mandhana's aggregate is built differently. She has played fewer matches than Raj did and scored at a far higher rate, particularly in the past three years: fourteen one-day hundreds against Raj's seven, a Twenty20 international hundred that Raj never made, and a Test hundred as well.

Her one-day average sits just below Raj's, in the high forties, on more than five thousand runs. Her Twenty20 international aggregate has passed 4,500 at a strike rate above 125 across more than 170 matches, and she became India's leading Twenty20 international run scorer across both the men's and women's games — passing Rohit Sharma's mark — during that run.

The two records she has already taken, and the one she has not, describe the difference between the players. Raj's total was accumulated over twenty-three years of a sparse calendar; Mandhana's is being accumulated over a decade of a dense one, with a domestic league in February and March that did not exist for most of Raj's career.

Format by format

India's women now play considerably more Twenty20 cricket than anything else, and the composition of a career aggregate has changed accordingly.

Raj's 10,868 was 72 per cent one-day runs. Mandhana's is closer to an even split between the fifty-over and twenty-over games, with a small Test component — India played her in only a handful of Tests across her first decade. Harmanpreet Kaur's is weighted further towards Twenty20 still, which is what two hundred appearances in the format does to a career total.

Test cricket contributes almost nothing to any of them. Raj played twelve Tests in twenty-three years; India played more women's Tests in the four years to 2026 than in the fifteen before it, but the format is still marginal to an aggregate. Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues and Shafali Verma have all built the bulk of their runs in white-ball cricket.

The players behind the top three

Below Kaur the list is led by the group that has carried India's batting since about 2018: Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma and Richa Ghosh, with Punam Raut and Harleen Deol among those who have had long spells in the side.

Rodrigues and Verma both debuted as teenagers and both have played well over a hundred internationals before turning twenty-five, which is a function of how much cricket the side now plays. Deepti Sharma's aggregate is unusual in that it belongs to a player who is primarily a bowler — she leads the India women's most wickets list and holds the best figures recorded in women's Twenty20 international cricket — and who also holds India's highest one-day international score.

Pratika Rawal is the newest name worth watching. She began playing one-day internationals in late 2024 and has averaged in the high forties across her first thirty innings, including a 154 against Ireland at Rajkot and a hundred in the 2025 World Cup.

What the record will look like

If Mandhana passes Raj it will be the first time the record has changed hands since Raj took it, and it will happen in a period when India play more international cricket in a year than the side did in three during the 1990s.

That volume is the main reason aggregates are climbing, and it makes comparison across eras hard. A better way to read the list is alongside the India women's best batting averages and India women's highest individual scores leaderboards, which are less sensitive to how many matches a player has been given.

For the domestic competition that now sits behind these careers, see the women's Premier League guide and the WPL most runs leaderboard. The game's structure in the country is on the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Mithali Raj's career totals, and the format splits given for them, come from published career records and are fixed: she retired in June 2022 and the figures cannot change.

The figures for players still active are deliberately given in general terms — "past 10,700", "past 8,000" — rather than as precise aggregates. A precise total for a current player is accurate for a few days at most, and this page is written to remain correct rather than to look exact. Where a specific figure is quoted for an active player, such as Mandhana's one-day average or hundred count, it is a figure verified at the time of writing and stated as such.

The claim that Raj holds the highest career aggregate in women's international cricket, and that only Edwards and Bates have also passed ten thousand, follows published records for the women's game. Mandhana's position as the second-highest scorer, and Kaur's two hundredth Twenty20 international appearance in June 2026, are taken from reports at the time.

Nothing on this page is computed from ball-by-ball data. Complete to the end of August 2026.