Smriti Mandhana

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Smriti Mandhana

Personal information

Full name Smriti Shriniwas Mandhana

Born 18 July 1996 (age 22)

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Batting Left-handed

Bowling Right-arm medium pace

Role Batswoman

International information

 India
National side

Test debut (cap 75) 13 August 2014 v England

Last Test 16 November 2014 v South Africa

ODI debut 10 April 2013 v Bangladesh

Last ODI 16 September 2018 v Sri Lanka

ODI shirt no. 18

T20I debut 5 April 2013 v Bangladesh

Last T20I 11 November 2018 v Pakistan

Domestic team information

Years Team

2016–present Brisbane Heat

2018–present Western Storm

Career statistics
 Competition WTest WODI WT20I
Matches 2 41 36
Runs scored 81 1,464 767
Batting average 27.00 37.53 24.74
100s/50s 0/1 3/11 0/5
Top score 51 135 76
Balls bowled – – –
Wickets – – –
Bowling average – – –
5 wickets – – –
in innings
10 wickets in – – –
match
Best bowling – – –
Catches/stumpings 0/– 12/- 5/–

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 11 November 2018

Smriti Shriniwas Mandhana (born 18 July 1996) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women's
national team.[1][2] In June 2018, the Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) named her as the Best
Women's International Cricketer.[3]

Contents

 1Early and personal life

 2Domestic career
 3International career
 4References
 5External links

Early and personal life[edit]

Mandhana was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai to Smita and Shrinivas Mandhana.[4][5] When she was two,
the family moved to Madhavnagar, Sangli in Maharashtra, where she completed her schooling. Both her
father and brother, Shravan, played cricket at the district-level, for Sangli. She was inspired to take up
cricket after watching her brother play at the Maharashtra state Under-16s tournaments. At the age of nine,
she was selected in the Maharashtra's Under-15 team. At eleven, she was picked for the Maharashtra
Under-19s team.[6]
Mandhana's family is closely involved in her cricketing activities. Her father Shrinivas, a chemical
distributor, takes care of her cricket programme, her mother Smita is in charge of her diet, clothing and
other organisation aspects, and her brother Shravan still bowls to her in the nets.[4][5]

Domestic career[edit]
Mandhana's first breakthrough came in October 2013 when she became the first Indian woman to achieve
a double-hundred in a one-day game. Playing for Maharashtra against Gujarat, she scored an unbeaten 224
off 150 balls in the West Zone Under-19 Tournament, at the Alembic Cricket Ground in Vadodara.[7]
In the 2016 Women's Challenger Trophy, Mandhana scored three half-centuries for India Red in as many
games, and helped her team win the Trophy by making an unbeaten 62 off 82 balls in the final against
India Blue. With 192 runs, she emerged as the tournament's top-scorer.[8]
In September 2016, Mandhana was signed up for a one-year deal with Brisbane Heat for the Women's Big
Bash League (WBBL), and along with Harmanpreet Kaur, became one of the first two Indians to be signed
up for the League.[9] Playing against Melbourne Renegades in January 2017, she fell awkwardly while
fielding after bowling the final ball of her over hurting her knee. She was ruled out of the rest of the
tournament which she ended having scored 89 runs in 12 innings.[10][11]
In June 2018, Mandhana signed for Kia Super League defending champions Western Storm, becoming the
first Indian to play in the league.[12]

International career[edit]
Mandhana made her Test debut in August 2014 against England at Wormsley Park. She helped her team
win the match by scoring 22 and 51 in her first and second innings, respectively; in the latter innings, she
shared in an opening-wicket partnership of 76 runs with Thirush Kamini, chasing 182.[13][14]
In the second ODI game of India's tour of Australia in 2016 at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart, Mandhana
scored her maiden international hundred (102 off 109 balls), in a losing cause.[15]
Mandhana was the only Indian player to be named in the ICC Women's Team of the Year 2016.[16]
Mandhana came into the team for the 2017 World Cup after recovering from an injury she sustained,
an anterior cruciate ligament rupture, during her time at the WBBL in January that year. In her five-month
recovery period, she missed the World Cup Qualifier and the Quadrangular Series in South Africa.[17] She
began the World Cup with a 90 against England in Derby, in the first of the group matches. She helped her
team win by 35 runs, and was named the player of the match.[18] followed by her second hundred in a One
Day International against West Indies,(106*)
Mandhana was part of the Indian team to reach the final of the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup where
the team lost to England by nine runs.[19][20][21]
In March 2018, she scored the fastest fifty for India in a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) fixture,
taking 30 balls to reach a half-century against Australia women in the 2017–18 India women's Tri-Nation
Series.[22] The following month, she was named the player of the series, for the three WODI matches
played against England women.[23] On 3 August 2018, she scored the first century in the 2018 Women's
Cricket Super League.[24][25]
In October 2018, she was named in India's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament
in the West Indies.[26][27] Ahead of the tournament, she was named as the star of the team.[28]

References[edit]
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