Smriti Shriniwas Mandhana (Born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai, Maharashtra) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women's national team. In June 2018, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) named her as the Best Women's International Cricketer.
Mandhana's first breakthrough came in October 2013 when she became the first Indian woman to achieve a double-hundred in a one-day game. 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.
Mandhana made her Test debut in August 2014 against England at Wormsley Park. Smriti Mandhana was the only Indian player to be named in the ICC Women's Team of the Year 2016. In the 2016 Women's Challenger Trophy, Mandhana scored three half-centuries for India Red in as many games, and helped her team win the Trophy by making 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 (WBBL), and along with Harmanpreet Kaur, became one of the first two Indians to be signed up for the League.
Mandhana came into the team for the 2017 World Cup after recovering from an injury, she began the World Cup with a 90 against England in Derby, in the first of the group matches. Smriti helped her team win by 35 runs, and was named the player of the match, followed by her second hundred in a One Day International against West Indies (106*). Smriti Mandhana was part of the Indian team to reach the final of the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup where the team lost to England by nine runs.
In March 2018, Smriti Mandhana scored the fastest fifty for India in a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) fixture, taking 30 balls to reach a half-century against Australia women in the 2017–18 India women's Tri-Nation Series. The following month, she was named the player of the series, for the three WODI matches played against England women.
In June 2018, Smriti signed for Kia Super League defending champions Western Storm, becoming the first Indian to play in the league. On 3 August 2018, Smriti scored the first century in the 2018 Women's Cricket Super League.
