Smriti Mandhana

Smriti Shriniwas Mandhana is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women’s national team. She was the first Indian woman to score a double-hundred in a one-day game. In June 2018, the Board of Control for Cricket in India named her as the Best Women’s International Cricketer.

About Smriti Mandhana in brief

Summary Smriti MandhanaSmriti Shriniwas Mandhana is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women’s national team. She was the first Indian woman to score a double-hundred in a one-day game. In June 2018, the Board of Control for Cricket in India named her as the Best Women’s International Cricketer. The International Cricket Council awarded her with the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the best female cricketers of the year. In October 2018, she was named in India’s squad for the Women’s World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. In February 2019, she also scored the fastest fifty for India in a Women’s T20 International fixture, taking 30 balls to reach a half-century against Australia in the Twenty20 fixture.

She is the only Indian player to be named in the ICC Women’s Team of the Year 2016. In September 2016, she signed up to play for Brisbane Heat in the Women’s Big Bash League. She also played in the Hobart Hurricanes’ squad for 2018–19 Women’s Big bash League season. She has been named in Team India’s World Cup squad for 2017 World Cup in South Africa. She made her Test debut in August 2014 against England at Wormsley Park.