Smriti Mandhana (Cricketer)
Real Name: Smriti Shriniwas Mandhana
Profession: Indian Women Cricketer (Batsman)
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.): in centimeters- 163 cmin meters- 1.63 min Feet Inches- 5’ 4”
Weight (approx.): in Kilograms- 55 kgin Pounds- 121 lbs
Figure Measurements: 33-27-33
Eye Colour: Black
Hair Colour: Black
Cricket
International Debut: Test- 13 August 2014 vs England Women in WormsleyODI- 10 April 2013 vs Bangladesh Women in AhmedabadT20- 5 April 2013 vs Bangladesh Women in Vadodra
Jersey Number: #18 (India)
Domestic/State Teams: Brisbane Heat Women
Bowling Style: Right-arm medium-fast
Batting Style: Left-hand bat
Records/Achievements (main ones)• While playing against Gujarat in October 2013, Mandhana became first Indian women cricketer to achieve a double ton in a One Day game. She had smashed 224 off just 150 balls in the West Zone under-19 tournament.• With 3 centuries in as many matches and a total of 192 runs in the Women's Challenger Trophy 2016, she stood as the highest run-scorer of the tournament.
Career Turning Point
In order to utilize her heroic batting style and huge numbers in the domestic cricket, the selectors named her to the international squad in April 2013.
Personal Life
Date of Birth :18 July 1996
Birth Place: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Zodiac sign/Sun sign: Cancer
Nationality: Indian
Hometown: Sangli, Maharashtra, India
Religion: Hinduism
Hobbies : Listening to Music
Favourites
Favourite Cricketer: Sachin Tendulkar
Boys, Affair & More
Marital Status: Unmarried
Some Lesser Known Facts About Smriti Mandhana
Does Smriti Mandhana smoke: Not Known
Does Smriti Mandhana drink alcohol: Not Known
She belongs to a family of cricketers. His father and brother played region level cricket for Sangli. She made her mind to be a cricketer after watching her brother play at the Maharashtra state Under-16 tournaments. Shravan, her brother, despite everything bowls her in the nets.
Mandhana was only 9 when she was chosen to play for Maharashtra's Under-15 team at region level.
Maharashtra Under-19 Cricket team got her in 2007 to play for them while she aged only 11.
In September 2016, she became one of the initial two Indians to be marked to play in the Ladies' Large Bash League after Brisbane Heat marked her up for the then version of the tournament. Harmanpreet Kaur is the other one.
On 25 September 2018, the Legislature of India consulted Smriti Mandhana with the Arjuna Award.
Passage to Women's Huge Bash League
Mandhana has also been among the initial two Indians to be pursued the Women's Huge Bash League. She represented Brisbane Heat however was precluded because of injury on her debut season. She had scored 89 runs off 12 innings in the same.
Mandhana's maiden international hundred, however in a losing cause, also came in 2016, when she played in blue against Australia in Hobart.
The only Indian player to be named in the ICC Women's Team of the Year, Smriti Mandhana had another feather added to her hat in the year 2016!
2017 was the year that saw Mandhana's arrival from injury attributable to which she not just missed the World Cup Qualifier and the Quadrangular Arrangement in South Africa. She scored 90 runs against England at the start of the World Cup. She scored her second One Day century against the West Indies.
An energizing year for the Indian run-machine, 2018 saw Smriti pursuing Kia Super League. Representing the Western Storms, she has been the principal Indian to be a part of the league. Hobart Hurricane had the Smriti Hurricane where the 2018-2019 Major Bash League is concerned.
Smriti stars in Women's Kia Super League
Smriti scored the main century in the Women's Cricket Super League'18 too. It was also in October'18 that Smriti was called the "Star" of the team. This came ahead of her determination in India's squad that would tour the Caribbean. During the tour, the "star" also became the third cricketer to score 1000 runs in WT20 matches. Closure the year on a high, Mandhana was the leading run-scorer in WODIs as well as became the ICC women's cricketer of the year and the ICC women's ODI player of the year. She had 669 hurries to her name with an average of 66.90. It was also in December'18 that she was also awarded with the Rachael Heyhoe-Rock Award for the best female cricketer of the year by the ICC.
Smriti Mandhana Female Cricket
Smriti Mandhana in 2019
Come 2019, the Indian run-machine scored the fastest fifty, that which came off only 24 balls, against New Zealand. In February 2019, Smriti, 22, was also named the captain of the Indian T20 team. She came to be known as the youngest woman to be captaining the side. In May, Smriti had another milestone achieved when she won the International Woman Cricketer of the Year award at the Ceat International Cricket Awards. Consummation the year, she became the third-fastest cricketer to score 2000 runs in WODIs, regarding the number of innings, which came off only 51 innings.
The left-hander, a small-town young lady, turned Indian Cricket around in so many aspects. From getting a charge out of the peak of her career to managing her academics when she was younger, we should take a gander at the lesser-known facts about the player!
Lesser known facts about Smriti Mandhana
Did you know? Did you know Smriti, however has never utilized it, has a bat that was talented to her brother Shravan, by Rahul Dravid? Also, did you know, both her father and brother were into playing the sport and that her brother came in as an inspiration for Smriti?
The young lady with number 18 on her Jersey, mainly because it's her introduction to the world date, had been a trade understudy despite the fact that she loved science better. This was because her mother thought that managing both sport and academics might prove to be an issue. Also, earlier, she wanted her pullover number to be 7 because that was her move number in school, in any case, she was unable to get it as it was already taken by someone else.
Smriti was only 17 when she played her debut ODI and only 18 years of age when she represented the nation in white.
A legend really taking shape without a doubt, Smriti Mandhana, by and by as 2025 races to her name in ODIs, 1451 rushes to her name in T20s and 81 races to her name in Test Cricket.
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