What wonderful clean hitting: Virender Sehwag blown away by Harmanpreet Kaur's 171 against Australia

On Thursday, Harmanpreet Kaur played the innings of her life and one person who was bowled over was the swashbuckling Virender Sehwag. Here’s what he wrote on Twitter; “An Innings of a lifetime , Harmanpreet Kaur . What wonderful clean hitting. More than 60% of India's runs. Fan ! Over to the Bowlers now.”

 Harmanpreet Kaur played inarguably one of the finest ODI innings ever to lead India to an imposing 281 for four against Australia in the semi-final of the ICC Women's World Cup, here today. The Indian vice-captain smashed her way to a career-best magical 171 off 115 balls, leaving the Australian bowlers in a daze in a match that has been curtailed to 42 overs a side due to inclement weather. 

This was India's highest ever total against the Southern Stars and could well be a match-winning total. 

An Innings of a lifetime , Harmanpreet Kaur . What wonderful clean hitting. More than 60% of India's runs.
Fan ! Over to the Bowlers now. pic.twitter.com/xZlIB2SW4x

— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) July 20, 2017

The innings could well be termed as the best ever played by an Indian woman in the limited overs cricket. Harmanpreet's third ODI century was embellished with 20 fours and as many as seven sixes.

This is also the second highest individual score in ODIs for India behind Deepti Sharma's 188 not out against South Africa earlier this year. It was out of the world power-hitting by the girl from Moga district in Punjab -- something that has made her a stand-out player for India. 

The milestone from 51 to 100 was reached in 26 balls while she raced to 150 from 101 in mere 17 balls. The sixes flew from her bat with monotonic regularity as the Aussie bowlers had no clue as to what hit them.

With inputs from PTI