30 Facts About Smriti Mandhana

Smriti Mandhana is an Indian international cricketer who serves as the vice-captain for the national team.

Smriti Mandhana is fourth on the list of most international centuries in international cricket.

Smriti Mandhana has won four ICC Awards including Cricketer of the Year and the ODI Cricketer of the Year.

Smriti Mandhana was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, to Smita and Shrinivas Smriti Mandhana, in a Marwari Hindu family.

Smriti Mandhana's father worked as a chemical distributor, while her mother was a housewife.

Smriti Mandhana attended Chintaman Rao College of Commerce in Sangli.

Smriti Mandhana's father played cricket at the district level for Sangli, as did her brother, Shravan, who is a bank manager.

Smriti Mandhana has been dating music composer-filmmaker Palash Muchhal since 2019.

In September 2016, Smriti Mandhana was signed for a one-year deal with Brisbane Heat for the Women's Big Bash League and became one of the first Indians to be signed up for the league along with Harmanpreet Kaur.

Smriti Mandhana was ruled out of the rest of the tournament which she ended having scored 89 runs in 12 innings.

In June 2018, Smriti Mandhana signed for Kia Super League defending champions Western Storm, becoming the first Indian to play in the league.

Smriti Mandhana played for them in 7 games and scored 167 runs before leaving them for India's tour of Australia.

Smriti Mandhana scored a hundred in the season, equalling the record for the tournament's highest ever score.

Smriti Mandhana made her Test debut in August 2014 against England at Wormsley Park.

Smriti Mandhana helped her team to 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.

Smriti Mandhana was the only Indian player to be named in the ICC Women's Team of the Year 2016.

Smriti 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.

Smriti Mandhana began the World Cup with a 90 against England in Derby, in the first of the group matches.

Smriti Mandhana helped her team win by 35 runs, and was named the player of the match.

Smriti 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.

Smriti Mandhana scored the fastest fifty for India in Women's T20Is off just 24 balls against New Zealand in February 2019.

Smriti Mandhana ended that year as the leading run-scorer in WODIs with 669 at an average of 66.90.

Smriti Mandhana was adjudged the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year and the ICC Women's ODI Player of the Year.

Smriti Mandhana became the youngest T20I captain for India when she led the women's team against England in the first T20I in Guwahati.

Smriti Mandhana became the first Indian female cricketer to score a century in both ODIs and Tests in Australia.

Smriti Mandhana was named in the India squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup and their home ODI series against New Zealand in October 2024.

Smriti Mandhana scored 30 half centuries, the most in women's T20Is surpassing Suzie Bates and scored 8 half centuries in 2024, the most by an Indian, surpassing Mithali Raj in 2018.

Smriti Mandhana became the second Indian batter to score fifty plus runs in three or more consecutive women's T20Is after Mithali Raj.

Smriti Mandhana scored the most runs by an Indian woman in a bilateral T20I series surpassing Mithali Raj against South Africa in 2018.

Smriti Mandhana became the fastest Indian women cricketer to score 4,000 runs in ODIs.