Team India opener Smriti Mandhana hammered her career-best T20I score of 87 against Ireland Women team to lift her side into the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2023 semifinals. (Source: ICC)
In 2019, Smriti Mandhana became the youngest T20I captain for India when she led the women's team against England in the first T20I in Guwahati. At 22 years and 229 days, the India women's cricket team opener took over from Harmanpreet Kaur, who had been ruled out of the three-match series with an ankle injury.
In January 2022, the ICC awarded Smriti Mandhana with the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year. (Source: Twitter)
Smriti Mandhana broke West Indies batter Stafanie Taylor’s world record of the most 50+ scores while chasing in women’s T20Is. The Indian batter has 12 fifty-plus scores, one more than Taylor. (Source: Instagram)
Smriti Mandhana became the most-expensive player in the first-ever Women's Premier League (WPL) auction. Mandhana was bought for Rs 3.4 crore by the Royal Challengers Bangalore. (Source: Instagram)
Smriti Mandhana has been appointed the captain of the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the first-ever season of Women's Premier League (WPL), which begins on March 4 this year. (Source: Instagram)