Smriti Mandhana Stats, Age, Family And Records

It would not be wrong to say that if Virat Kohli is the King of Indian cricket team, then Smriti Mandhana is the queen of Indian Women's cricket team, who has performed brilliantly in the 3-match ODI series against South Africa by scoring 2 consecutive hundreds in the first and 2nd ODI and playing a knock of 90 runs in the final match of the series, helping the Indian Women's team to win the series by 3-0. Mandhan won the Player of the Series award for his incredible contribution towards the team. Through this article, we are going to highlight Smriti Mandhana's stats, age, family and records in international cricket.

Smriti Shriniwas Mandhana was born on July 18th, 1996, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, to Smita and Shrinivas Mandhana, in a Marwari Hindu family. Her father worked as a chemical distributor, while her mother was a housewife. When she was just 2 years old, his family moved to Madhavnagar in Maharashtra, where she completed her schooling. It was Mandhana’s father and brother who inspired her to play cricket, as he was a district-level cricket player for Sangli. Meanwhile, his brother, who is now working in a bank as a branch manager, used to play in Maharashtra state Under-16 tournament, inspiring Mandhana to take up the sport. 

By the age of 9 Smriti started playing professional cricket and she was selected for Maharashtra's Under-15 team and Under-19 team.

Domestic Career

Mandhana came into limelight when she became the first Indian woman to score a double hundred in a one-day game in 2013. 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 Vadodara. Later, in the 2016 Women's Challenger Trophy, Mandhana scored three half-centuries for India Red and helped her team win the trophy by making an unbeaten 62 off 82 balls in the final against India Blue. 

After his impressive performance in the domestic cricket tournament, she was picked up in the Women’s Big Bash League for a one-year contract from Brisbane Heat. She became the first Indian women's cricket player to play in Women's Big Bash league along with Harmanpreet Kaur. However, she was left out of the tournament due to a knee injury that she suffered while playing against Melbourne Renegades. 

Not only that, in the next year, she became the only woman player to sign for Kia Super League defending champions Western Storm. Looking at her brilliant form with the bat, she was named in the Hobart Hurricanes' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season.

Smriti Mandha became a big name in international cricket, where every team wants her to be in their team and with the start of the inaugural WPL auction held in February 2023, she was purchased by Royal Challengers Bangalore for a whopping price ₹3.4 crores, making her the highest-bid player as team's captain. Under her captaincy, Royal Challengers Bangalore won their maiden WPL title in 2024, where she finished the tournament as the second-highest run-scorer, playing a pivotal role in RCB's successful campaign.

International Career

In just a year after scoring a double hundred in domestic cricket. Smriti Mandhana made her Test debut in August 2014 against England at Wormsley Park, where she played a key role in winning the match by scoring 22 and 51 in her first and second innings, respectively. 

Mandhana’s first ODI hundred  (102 off 109 balls), came against Australia, in the second ODI game of India's tour of Australia in 2016 at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart. Due to his incredible performance, she was in the ICC Women's Team of the Year 2016. You might not know that  Smriti Mandhana is on the list of players to score the fastest fifty for India in Women's T20Is of just 24 balls against New Zealand in February 2019.

In October 2018, she was picked up in India's squad for the Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies, where she became the third cricketer for India to score 1,000 runs in WT20I matches. She was the leading run-scorer in WODIs with 669 at an average of 66.90 for which she was awarded with ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year and the ICC Women's ODI Player of the Year award.

Smriti Mandhana's Records

1. She is the 2nd player in Women's International Cricket to score most 90’s in a career (WODI).
2. 2nd Women cricketer to score hundreds in consecutive innings in Women's One Day International.
3. 3rd international cricketer to score most fifties (23)  in World T20 Internationals.
4. She became the youngest T20I captain for India when she led the women's team against England in the first T20I in Guwahati.
5. She became the third-fastest cricketer, in terms of innings, to score 2,000 runs in WODIs in 2019.
6. In 2021, she became the first Indian female cricketer to score a century in both ODIs and Tests in Australia.