Smriti Mandhana (Cricketer) Age, Height, Boyfriend, Family, Biography
Mandhana was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai to Smita and Shrinivas Mandhana in a Marwari family.
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 Madhavnagar, Sangli in Maharastra, 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 for 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 program, her mother Smita is in charge of her diet, clothing and other organizational aspects, and her brother Shravan still bowls to her in the nets.
Debut
After making her One Day International debut in 2013 in a match against Bangladesh, Mandhana made her Test debut in August 2014 against England at Wormsley Park. She helped her team win the match by scoring 22 and 51 in her first and second innings, respectively.
Rise to Glory
In the second ODI game of India's tour of Australia in 2016 at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart, Mandhana scored her maiden international hundred (102 off 109 balls) but the match ended in a losing cause for India. Mandhana was also the only Indian player to be named to 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 anterior cruciate ligament 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 Derby, in the first of the group matches. She helped her team win by 35 runs and was named the player of the match.[18] followed by her second hundred in a One Day International against West Indies (106*).
Club career
In September 2016, Mandhana signed up a one-year deal with Brisbane Heat for the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) along with Harmanpreet Kaur and became one of the first two Indians to be signed up for the League. Playing against Melbourne Renegades in January 2017, she fell awkwardly while fielding after bowling the final ball of her over hurting one of her knees which ruled her out of the rest of the tournament. She ended that season after scoring 89 runs in 12 innings.
In June 2018, Mandhana signed for Kia Super League defending champions Western Storm and became the first Indian to play in this league.
Family & Caste
Smriti Mandhana belongs to the Marwari community. Her father, Shrinivas Mandhana is a former district-level cricketer. Her mother's name is Smita Mandhana. She has a brother
named Shravan Mandhana (former district-level cricketer), who is a branch manager of a private bank in Sangli.
Achievements
- ICC Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the best female cricketer of the year 2018.
- ODI Player of the Year by the ICC 2018.
- Youngest T20I captain for India.
- Only Indian player to be named in the ICC Women's Team of the Year 2016.
- Won the International Woman Cricketer of the Year award 2019.
Facts
- The selectors named her to the International squad in 2013, to utilize her heroic batting
style and huge numbers in domestic cricket. - In 2013, she became the first Indian woman to achieve a double ton in a one-day game.
She smashed 224 off just 150 balls in the west zone at the U-19 tournament. - With three centuries in as many matches and a total of 192 runs, she stood as the highest
run-scorer in the women challengers trophy 2016. - She became one of the first two Indians to be signed to play in the Women's Big Bash League
after the Brisbane Heat signed up for the edition of the tournament in 2017. Harmanpreet
Kaur is the other one. - She loves cooking and has taken cooking classes when she was in classes V and VI.
- She initially wanted to do hotel management and still wishes to open her restaurant.
- When Smriti was 6, she used to have a lot of discussions about games and batting. She
used to play gully cricket with boys. - Her brother was a left-hand batsman. Seeing her brother play, she too developed that
style.
Smriti Mandhana Social Media
https://www.instagram.com/smriti_mandhana
