Smriti Mandhana (born 18 July 1996) is an Indian international

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er and the vice-captain of the

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. She is third on the list of most international centuries and ODI centuries. She is regarded as one of the greatest opening batter of all time. Mandhana plays for

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in the Women's Premier League. In domestic cricket, she represents

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. She has won four

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including Cricketer of the Year and ODI Cricketer of the Year. In June 2018, the

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awarded Mandhana the Best International Cricketer during the

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. In December 2018, the ICC honored her with the Cricketer of the Year award. In December 2021, she became a nominee of the T20 Player of the Year. In December 2021, she was nominated for the Cricketer of the Year. In 2022, the ICC honored her with the Cricketer of the Year again. In 2025, she also won the ODI Cricketer of the Year Award.

Early life

Mandhana was born on 18 July 1996 in

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, to Smita and Shrinivas Mandhana, in a

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family. Her father worked as a chemical distributor, while her mother was a housewife. When she was two years old, her family moved to

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, a suburb of

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in Maharashtra, where she completed her schooling. She attended Chintaman Rao College of Commerce in Sangli. Mandhana's father played cricket at the district level for Sangli, as did her brother, Shravan, who is now a bank manager. Watching her brother compete in Maharashtra state Under-16 tournaments inspired Mandhana to take up the sport. By the age of nine, she was selected for Maharashtra's Under-15 team, and by eleven, she was picked for the Maharashtra Under-19 team.

Personal life

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

Youth career

Her first breakthrough came in October 2013, when she became the first Indian woman to score 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

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, 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.

Franchise career

Individual record

Team record

WBBL, KSL and more (2016–present)

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

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for the

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and became one of the first Indians to be signed up for the league along with

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. 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.

RCB (2023–present)

In the inaugural WPL auction held in February 2023, she was offered ₹3.4 crores by Royal Challengers Bangalore, making her the highest-bid player in the auction and was also elected as the team's captain. Under her captaincy, Royal Challengers Bangalore won their maiden WPL title in 2024, marking a significant turnaround from the previous season's challenges. Finishing the tournament as the second-highest run scorer, Mandhana played a pivotal role in RCB's successful campaign.

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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, 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

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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*) She 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. Mandhana scored the fastest fifty for India in Women's T20Is off 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

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in the 2017–18 India women's Tri-Nation Series. 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 WT20I matches. She ended that year as the leading run-scorer in WODIs with 669 at an average of 66.90. She was adjudged the

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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 was taking over from

, who had been ruled out of the three-match series with an ankle injury. In May 2019, she 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. 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. Sheewas a part of team India who dal the in

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in Hangzhou. She was named in the India squad for the

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and their home ODI series against New Zealand in October 2024. Mandhana scored 763 runs in T20Is in 2024. This was the most by any player in T20Is in a single year. She scored 30 half centuries, the most in women's T20Is surpassing

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(28) and scored 8 half centuries in 2024, the most by an Indian, surpassing

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(7) in 2018. She became the second Indian batter to score fifty plus runs in three or more consecutive women's T20Is (3) after Mithali Raj (4 between 2016 and 2018). She also scored the most runs by an Indian woman in a bilateral T20I series (193) surpassing Mithali Raj (192) against South Africa in 2018. She became the fastest Indian women cricketer to score 4,000 runs in ODIs. On 15 January 2025, she scored her fastest century in the terms of balls (70) and became the first Indian female cricketer to score 10 centuries in ODIs. She is the highest Run scorer at

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International centuries

Test centuries

ODI centuries

Key

Awards and nominations

References

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