Mandhana Rests for 5th T20I, Misses Chance to Break Shubman Gill's Record

• Vice-captain Smriti Mandhana is rested for the 5th and final T20I against Sri Lanka.
• Captain Harmanpreet Kaur confirmed Mandhana and Renuka Singh are resting for the match.
• G. Kamalini is set to debut, while Sneh Rana returns to the playing XI.
• Mandhana had scored 1,703 international runs in 2025, the highest by any woman.
• She needed just 62 more runs to surpass Shubman Gill (1,764 runs) as the leading international run-scorer of 2025.

Why It Matters: Smriti Mandhana is rested for the final T20I, missing a chance to become 2025's top international run-scorer.