Smriti Mandhana
Indian cricketer
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- Smriti Mandhana (born 18 July 1996) is an Indian international cricketer and the vice-captain of the Indian women's national team.
- She also won a gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games, and a silver medal in the 2022 Commonwealth Games representing India.
- She holds several records including the record for the most international centuries (shared with Meg Lanning) and the second most centuries in Women's One Day Internationals (WODI).
- She is the first Indian to score a century in all three formats of women's international cricket–WTests, WODIs and WT20Is, and also holds the record for the fastest century in the ODI format by any Indian batter.
- She captains Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Women's Premier League (WPL), and had led them to WPL titles in the 2024 and 2026 seasons.
Smriti Mandhana (born 18 July 1996) is an Indian international cricketer and the vice-captain of the Indian women's national team. She was part of the Indian team that won the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup, the Women's Asia Cup in 2016 and 2022. She also won a gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games, and a silver medal in the 2022 Commonwealth Games representing India.
Mandhana has scored more than 10,000 runs in international cricket. She holds several records including the record for the most international centuries (shared with Meg Lanning) and the second most centuries in Women's One Day Internationals (WODI). She has scored the second most runs and the most half-centuries in Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20I). She is the first Indian to score a century in all three formats of women's international cricket–WTests, WODIs and WT20Is, and also holds the record for the fastest century in the ODI format by any Indian batter.
In domestic cricket, Mandhana represents Maharashtra. She captains Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Women's Premier League (WPL), and had led them to WPL titles in the 2024 and 2026 seasons. She led the Trailblazers in the Women's T20 Challenge from 2019 to 2022, while winning the title in the 2020 season. In 2016, she was signed by Brisbane Heat in the Australian Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). She has also played for Hobart Hurricanes, Sydney Thunder, and Adelaide Strikers in the WBBL, Western Storm in the Women's Cricket Super League and Southern Brave in The Hunded.
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