Smriti Mandhana
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18 July 1996 Sangli, Maharashtra, India |
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 16 November 2014 v South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut | 10 April 2013 v Bangladesh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 19 February 2016 v Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut | 5 April 2013 v Bangladesh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 31 January 2016 v Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Smriti Mandhana (born 18 July 1996) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women's cricket team.
Mandhana was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai to Smitha and Shrinivas Mandhana, a chemical distributor. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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