Smriti Mandhana
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18 July 1996 Sangli, Maharashtra, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Left-hand batsmen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium pace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 75) | 13 August 2014 v England women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 16 November 2014 v South Africa women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut | 10 April 2013 v Bangladesh women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 19 February 2016 v Sri Lanka women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut | 5 April 2013 v Bangladesh women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 31 January 2016 v Australia women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Smriti Mandhana (born 18 July 1996) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women's cricket team.[1][2]
Early life
Mandhana was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai to Smitha and Shrinivas Mandhana, a chemical distributor.[3][4] The family shifted to Sangli in Maharashtra when she was aged two, where she completed her schooling. Both her father, and brother, Shravan, played cricket at the district-level, for Sangli. 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.[5]
Career
Domestic career
Mandhana's first breakthrough came in October 2013 after she scored became the first Indian woman to score a double-hundred in a one-day game, after scored an unbeaten 224 off 150 balls, playing for Maharashtra and against Gujarat, in the West Zone Under-19 Tournament, at the Alambic Cricket Ground in Vadodara.[6]
Playing for India Red in the 2016 Women's Challenger Trophy, Mandhana scored three half-centuries in as many games and helped her team win the Trophy, scoring an unbeaten 62 off 82 balls in the final against India Blue. With 192 runs, she emerged as the tournament's top-scorer.[7]
In September 2016, Mandhana was signed up for a one-year deal with Brisbane Heat for the Women's Big Bash League, and along with Harmanpreet Kaur, become the first Indians to be signed up for the League.[8]
International career
Mandhana made her Test debut in August 2014 against England at Wormsley Park, and helped her team win the match scoring 22 and 51 in her first and second innings; in the latter setting up an opening-wicket partnership of 76 runs with Thirush Kamini, chasing 181.[9][10]
In the second ODI game of India's tour of Australia in 2016 at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart, Mandhana scored her maiden hundred (102 off 109 balls), in a losing cause.[11]
References
- ↑ "Smriti Mandhana". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
- ↑ "Smriti Mandhana's journey from following her brother to practice to becoming a pivotal India batsman". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ↑ Patnaik, Sidhanta (7 September 2014). "Mandhana's journey from Sangli to England". Wisden India. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ Swamy, Kumar (17 August 2014). "Smriti Mandhana logs Test win on debut in UK". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ Kishore, Shashank (18 March 2016). "The prodigious journey of Smriti Mandhana". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ "Smriti makes good use of Dravid's bat, scores double ton". The Times of India. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ↑ "Mandhana powers India Red to title". Wisden India. 25 October 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ "India Women stars relishing Big Bash opportunity". International Cricket Council. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ "Raj key in India's test of nerve". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ↑ "Nagraj Gollapudi speaks to members of India's winning women's team". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ↑ "Australia Women ace 253 chase to seal series". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
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