Wake up, hit runs, sleep, repeat! The schedule of Ms. consistent! Mandhana, one of the most celebrated players of recent times and a legend in making for sure! She always is the player to watch out for! Here’s her cricket journey you all need to know:
Smriti Mandhana – Profile
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NAME
SMRITI SHRINIWAS MANDHANA
DATE OF BIRTH
JULY 18,1996
PLACE OF BIRTH
MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA
NAME OF PARENTS
SMITA MANDHANA – MOTHER
SHRINIWAS MANDHANA – FATHER
SIBLINGS
SHRAVAN MANDHANA – BROTHER
BATTING
LEFT-HANDED
BOWLING
RIGHT-ARM MEDIUM PACE
JERSEY NUMBER
18
TEST DEBUT
AUGUST 13, 2014 against England
ODI DEBUT
APRIL 10, 2013 against Bangladesh
T20 DEBUT
APRIL 5, 2013 against Bangladesh
The Journey from Maharashtra to India
Smriti Mandhana was born in Mumbai and raised in Sangli, Maharashtra. Her father, Shrinivas, and brother, Shravan, played district-level cricket and supported her early interest in the game. She entered the Maharashtra Under-15 team at nine and the Under-19 side at 11. At 13, she made her senior Maharashtra debut, and by 16, she was captaining the state team. In October 2013, she scored an unbeaten 224 from 150 balls against Gujarat in the West Zone Under-19 Tournament, becoming the first Indian woman to score a double-hundred in a one-day domestic game.
Her domestic progress soon brought an India call-up. Mandhana made her T20I debut against Bangladesh in Vadodara on April 5, 2013, and her ODI debut against Bangladesh on April 10. Her Test debut came against England at Wormsley on August 13, 2014, where she scored a maiden fifty. She gradually became an important part of India’s top order and continued to build her international record. A major milestone came when she became the first Indian woman to score hundreds in all three international formats. Her early years therefore set the direction for a career that would include major tournaments, records and leadership roles.
World Cups, Records and WPL Success
Mandhana played seven consecutive T20 World Cups from 2014 through 2026 and was runner-up in 2020. She reached the 2017 ODI World Cup final and was India’s top run-scorer at the 2022 ODI World Cup. She served as vice-captain during India’s victorious 2025 ODI World Cup campaign. In 2024, she scored 1,659 international runs, breaking Belinda Clark’s 28-year record for most international runs in a calendar year. In 2025, she became the first woman to score more than 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year, with 434 coming during India’s World Cup-winning campaign.
The 2025 World Cup added more milestones to her record. Mandhana hit a 50-ball ODI hundred against England, which was the second-fastest by balls faced in women’s cricket at the time. She also scored five ODI hundreds in 2025, passing her own four from 2024 and matching Tazmin Brits for the joint-most. At the 2023 WPL auction, Royal Challengers Bengaluru bought her for a record ₹3.4 crore and appointed her captain. She led RCB to WPL titles in 2024 and 2026. She also won the Women’s T20 Challenge with Trailblazers in 2020.
Stats, Captaincy and Major Honours
Mandhana’s international record includes 9 Tests with 788 runs at 52.53, 123 ODIs with 5,443 runs at 47.33, and 182 T20Is with 4,923 runs at 31.15. Her highest scores are 149, 136 and 124 respectively. She has two Test hundreds, 14 ODI hundreds and two T20I hundreds. She has also taken one ODI wicket as a right-arm medium bowler. In franchise cricket, she has 1,023 WPL runs in 35 matches, 928 WBBL runs in 43 matches and 908 runs in 36 Hundred matches.
Mandhana first captained India in February 2019 against England, becoming India’s youngest T20I captain at 22 years and 229 days. She later served as vice-captain before taking over as full-time captain in October 2026. She also captained India during stages of the Asian Games gold-winning campaign. Her honours include the Arjuna Award, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award, ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year recognition and Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World. Her journey from Maharashtra to India captain has included major records, World Cup appearances, franchise success and consistent international performances across different stages of her career.
Lesser known facts about Smriti Mandhana
Did you know? Did you know Smriti, though has never used it, possesses a bat that was gifted to her brother Shravan, by Rahul Dravid? Also, did you know, both her father and brother were into playing the sport and that her brother came in as an inspiration for Smriti?
The girl with number 18 on her Jersey, mainly because it’s her birth date, had been a commerce student even though she liked science better. This was because her mother thought that managing both sport and academics might prove to be a problem. Also, earlier, she wanted her jersey number to be 7 because that was her roll-number in school, however, she couldn’t get it as it was already taken by someone else.
Smriti was only 17 when she played her debut ODI and only 18 years of age when she represented the country in white.
A legend in the making for sure, Smriti Mandhana, presently as 2025 runs to her name in ODIs, 1451 runs to her name in T20s and 81 runs to her name in Test Cricket.
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