Smriti Shriniwas Mandhana was born on 18th July 1996. She is an Indian cricketer who plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Women's Premier League (WPL) also.
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Smriti Shriniwas Mandhana was born on 18th July 1996. She is an Indian cricketer who plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Women’s Premier League (WPL) also. In June 2018, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) awarded her ‘the Best Women’s International Cricketer’ in BCCI awards whereas in December 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) awarded her with the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the best female cricketer of the year as well. In January 2022, the ICC awarded her with the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year as well.
Her first breakthrough came in October 2013, when she became the first Indian player to achieve a double-century in a one-day game. While playing for Maharashtra against Gujarat, she smashed an unbeaten 224 off 150 balls in the West Zone Under-19 Tournament, at the Alembic Cricket Ground in Vadodara as well. In September 2016, Smriti Mandhana was signed up for a one-year deal with Brisbane Heat for the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) and became one of the first two Indians to be signed up for the League alongside Harmanpreet Kaur. In June 2018, she was signed for Kia Super League defending champions Western Storm, becoming the first Indian to play in the league whereas in November 2018, she was named in the Hobart Hurricanes’ squad for the 2018–19 Women’s Big Bash League season as well.
In 2021, she was drafted by Southern Brave for the inaugural season of The Hundred and since then, she has been playing in the league as well. In September 2021, she was named to the Sydney Thunder’s squad for the 2021-22 Women’s Big Bash League season where she scored a hundred in the season, equalling the record for the tournament’s highest-ever score as well. Moreover, in February 2022, she was retained by Southern Brave for the 2022 edition of The Hundred as well. Meanwhile, in the inaugural WPL auction held in February 2023, Royal Challengers Bangalore bought her for ₹3.4 crores as well.
Smriti Mandhana made her Test debut in August 2014 against England at Wormsley Park where she scored 22 and 51 in her two innings. In the second ODI game of India’s tour of Australia in 2016 at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart, she scored her maiden international hundred (102 off 109 balls) as well. However, Smriti Mandhana was part of the Indian team that reach the final of the 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup where they lost to England by nine runs as well. However, she scored the fastest fifty for India in T20Is of just 24 balls against New Zealand in February 2019.
In October 2018, she was named in India’s squad for the Women’s World Twenty20 tournament where she became the third cricketer for India to score 1,000 runs as well. In February 2019, she became the youngest T20I captain for India when she led the team against England in the first T20I in Guwahati at 22 years and 229 days. However, in November 2019, during the series against West Indies, she became the third-fastest cricketer, in terms of innings, to score 2,000 runs in the ODIs, doing so in her 51st innings as well. In August 2021, she was added to India’s Test squad for their one-off match against Australia where in the first innings of the match, she scored her first Test century as well.
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Her net worth is expected to be INR 25 crores (approx).
Smriti Mandhana reportedly has an annual contract of 50 lakhs from the BCCI. From Women’s Big Bash League, she has an earning of ₹3 Lakh whereas she earns a hefty amount from The Hundred: $750,000.
Royal Challengers Bangalore bought her for ₹3.4 crores in the WPL.
Here are the brands that Smriti Mandhana endorsed: Nike, Guvi, Hero Motocorp, BAS, Hyundai, Boost, Spektacom, Manyavar, Coinswitch Kuber, Mastercard India, Equitas Bank, Garnier, Red Bull, etc.
