Smriti Shriniwas Mandhana ( ; born 18 July 1996) is an Indian

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er who represents the Indian women's national team. She plays for

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in the Women's Premier League (WPL). In domestic cricket, she represents the Maharashtra cricket team. In June 2018, the

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(BCCI) awarded her 'the Best Women's International Cricketer' in

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. In December 2018, the

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(ICC) awarded her with the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the best female cricketer of the year. On 30 December 2021, she became a nominee of the ICC Women's T20 Player of the Year. In December 2021, she,

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and

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were nominated for the

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. In January 2022, the ICC awarded her with the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the

Early and personal life

Mandhana was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai to Smita and Shrinivas Mandhana in a Marwari family. When she was two, the family moved to

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in Maharashtra, where she completed her schooling. Both her father and brother, Shravan, played cricket at the district-level, for

. 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. 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 organisational aspects, and her brother Shravan still bowls to her in the nets.

Domestic career

Her 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

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. 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. In September 2016, Mandhana was signed up for a one-year deal with

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for the

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(WBBL), and along with

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, became one of the first two Indians to be signed up for the League. Playing against

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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. In June 2018, Mandhana signed for

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defending champions

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, becoming the first Indian to play in the league. In November 2018, she was named in the

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' squad for the

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. In 2021, she was drafted by

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for the inaugural season of The Hundred. She played for them in 7 games and scored 167 runs before leaving them for India's tour of Australia. In September 2021, she was named in the

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's squad for the 2021-22 Women's Big Bash League season. She scored a hundred in the season, equalling the record for the tournament's highest ever score. In February 2022, she was retained by Southern Brave for the 2022 edition of the Hundred. In the inaugural WPL auction held in February 2023, she was purchased by Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹3.4 crores, making it the highest bid for a player in the auction. She was also elected as the captain of the team.{{cite news , title=WPL Auction 2023: Royal Challengers Bangalore Buys Smriti Mandhana For Whopping Rs 3.40 Cr , url=https://english.jagran.com/cricket/wpl-auction-2023-royal-challengers-bangalore-buys-smriti-mandhana-for-whopping-rs-340-cr-10064937 , access-date=13 February 2023 , work=English Jagran , date=13 February 2023 , language=en

International career

Mandhana made her Test debut in August 2014 against

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. She 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. In the second ODI game of India's tour of Australia in 2016 at the

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in Hobart, Mandhana scored her maiden international hundred (102 off 109 balls), in a losing cause. Mandhana was the only Indian player to be named in the ICC Women's Team of the Year 2016. Mandhana came into the team for the 2017 World Cup after recovering from an injury she sustained, an

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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. She began the World Cup with a 90 against England in

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, in the first of the group matches. She helped her team win by 35 runs, and was named the player of the match. followed by her second hundred in a One Day International against

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,(106*) Mandhana was part of the Indian team to reach the

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of the

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where the team lost to

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''The Guardian'', 23 July 2017. Smriti Mandhana scored the fastest fifty for India in Women's T20Is of just 24 balls against

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in February 2019. In March 2018, she also scored the fifty for India in a

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(WT20I) fixture, taking 30 balls to reach a half-century against Australia in the

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.{{cite web , url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/18536/report/1131235/india-women-vs-australia-women-1st-match-tri-nation-womens-t20 , title=Mooney, bowlers power Australia to six-wicket win , publisher=ESPN Cricinfo , access-date=22 March 2018 The following month, she was named the player of the series, for the three WODI matches played

. On 3 August 2018, she scored the first century in the

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. In October 2018, she was named in India's squad for the Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. Ahead of the tournament, she was named as the star of the team. During the tournament, she became the third cricketer for India to score 1,000 runs in

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matches. She ended that year as the leading run-scorer in WODIs with 669 at an average of 66.90. She was adjudged the

and the ICC Women's ODI Player of the Year. In February 2019, she was named as the captain of India's Women T20I squad for the three match against

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

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. At 22 years and 229 days, the India women's cricket team opener is taking over from

, who has been ruled out of the three-match series with an ankle injury. In May 2019, she has won the International Woman Cricketer of the Year awards at CEAT International Cricket Awards 2019. In November 2019, during the series against

, she became the third-fastest cricketer, in terms of innings, to score 2,000 runs in WODIs, doing so in her 51st innings. In January 2020, she was named in India's squad for the

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in Australia. In May 2021, she was named in India's

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squad for their one-off match against

. In August 2021, she was also named in India's Test squad for their one-off match against Australia. In the first innings of the match, she scored her first century in Test cricket. She became the first Indian female cricketer to score a century in both ODIs and Tests in Australia.{{Cite web, last=MyDigitalNEWS.in, date=2 October 2021, title=Five Shocking Facts About Smriti Mandhana Becomes The First Indian Woman To Score A Test Century In Australia, url=https://mydigitalnews.in/five-shocking-facts-about-smriti-mandhana-becomes-the-first-indian-woman-to-score-a-test-century-in-australia, url-status=live, access-date=2 October 2021, website=My Digital NEWS.in, language=en In January 2022, she was named in India's team for the

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in New Zealand. In July 2022, she was named as the vice-captain of India's team for the cricket tournament at the

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, England.{{cite web , url=https://www.bcci.tv/articles/2022/news/55555899/team-india-senior-women-squad-for-birmingham-2022-commonwealth-games-announced?type=Latest , title=Team India (Senior Women) squad for Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games announced , work=Board of Control for Cricket in India , access-date=11 July 2022

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