Mandhana has scored more than 9,500 runs in international cricket. She holds 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–tests, WODIs and WT20Is. She also holds the record for the fastest century in ODIs by any Indian batter.
Smriti Mandhana was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, to Smita and Shrinivas Mandhana, in a MarwariHindu family.[1][2] Her father worked as a chemical distributor, while her mother is a housewife.[3][4] When she was two years old, her family moved to Madhavnagar, a suburb of Sangli in Maharashtra, where she completed her schooling. She attended Chintaman Rao College of Commerce in Sangli.[5][6]
Mandhana's father and brother had played cricket at the local level. Watching her brother compete in the junior state tournaments inspired Mandhana to take up the sport.[5][7]
Mandhana was set to be married music composer and filmmaker Palash Muchhal on 23 November 2025 but postponed due her father's sudden health deterioration.[8][9]
Domestic career
By the age of nine, Mandhana was selected for Maharashtra's under-15 team, and by eleven, she was picked for the Maharashtra under-19 team.[5][7] Her breakthrough came in October 2013, when she became the first Indian woman to score a double-century in a List A match against Gujarat under-19 team in the West Zone under-19 tournament at the Alembic Cricket Ground in Vadodara. She scored an unbeaten 224 runs off 150 balls.[10]
In the 2016 -17 edition of the Women's Challenger Trophy, Mandhana scored three half-centuries for India Red in as many games. She helped her team win the trophy by making an unbeaten 62 off 82 balls in the final against India Blue, and emerged as the tournament's top-scorer with 192 runs.[11]
During India's tour of Australia in 2016, Mandhana scored her first international century against Australia in the second WODI game of the series. Held at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart, she scored 102 off 109 balls in a losing cause.[18] Later in the year, she was the only Indian player to be named in the ICC Women's Team of the Year for 2016.[19]
Mandhana scored the fastest fifty for India in WT20Is off 24 balls against New Zealand in February 2019.[14] In March 2018, she scored a half-century off 30 balls against Australia in the 2017–18 India women's Tri-Nation Series.[25] In the following month, she was named the player of the series in the three-match WODI series played during England's tour of India.[26] In October 2018, she was named in India's squad for the Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[27][28] Ahead of the tournament, the International Cricket Council named her as one of the key players to watch for in the tournament.[29] During the tournament, she became the third Indian cricketer for score over a thousand runs in WT20I matches.[30] She ended that year as the leading run-scorer in WODIs with 669 runs at a batting average of 66.90. She was awarded the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year and the ICC Women's ODI Player of the Year in the 2018 ICC Awards.[31]
In February 2019, Mandhana was named as the captain of Indian squad for the three match WT20I series against England after regular captain Harmanpreet Kaur was ruled out with an ankle injury. At 22 years and 229 days, She became the youngest T20I captain for India when she led the team in the first T20I in Guwahati.[32] In May 2019, she won the International Woman Cricketer of the Year awards at CEAT International Cricket Awards 2019.[33] In November 2019, during the series against West Indies, she became the third-fastest cricketer, in terms of innings, to score 2,000 runs in WODIs, doing so in her 51st innings.[34] In January 2020, she was named in Indian squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.[35]
Mandhana was part of the Indian squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.[46] She made 75 runs across four innings in the tournament.[14] In the home series against South Africa, she made 343 runs in three matches including two centuries.[13] In the WT20I series against the same opponents, she scored 193 runs in three matches, which was the most runs scored in a bilateral T20I series for India.[47][48] In the subsequent series against New Zealand in October 2024, she scored another century in the third match of the series.[13][49]
In 2024, Mandhana scored 763 runs in WT20Is, the most by any player in T20Is in a single calendar year.[50][51] During the run, she scored eight half-centuries, the most by an Indian in a year, surpassing Mithali Raj (seven).[52] She also became the second Indian batter to score fifty plus runs in three or more consecutive WT20Is after Raj.[53][54] She also surpassed the record for the most career half-centuries in WT20Is held by Suzie Bates (28).[55] At the 2024 ICC Awards, she was named ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year and ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year.[56]
In January 2025, Mandhana became the fastest Indian cricketer to score 4,000 runs in WODIs.[57][58] Later in the same month, she scored a century in 70 balls against Ireland, the fastest for India and became the first Indian women's cricketer to score ten centuries in WODIs.[59][60] On 28 June 2025, she scored her first WT20I century in the series against England and became the first Indian women to score a century in all formats of international cricket.[61][62]
World cup win and later (2025-present)
Mandhana was vice-captain of the Indian team that won the 2025 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup. India defeated South Africa by 52 runs in the final at the DY Patil Stadium on 2 November 2025, becoming World Cup champions for the first time.[63][64] During the tournament, she scored her 14th WODI century against New Zealand, which made her the joint record holder for the most centuries in international cricket along with Meg Lanning (17).[65][66][67]
Franchise career
In September 2016, Mandhana was signed on a one-year deal by Brisbane Heat (WBBL) in the Ausralian Women's Big Bash League and became one of the first Indians to be signed up for the league along with Harmanpreet Kaur.[68] Playing against Melbourne Renegades in January 2017, she fell awkwardly while fielding and hurt her knee. She was ruled out of the rest of the tournament having scored 89 runs in 12 innings.[69][70] Ahead of the 2018–19 season, she was signed by the Hobart Hurricanes.[71][72] In September 2021, she became part of the Sydney Thunder squad for the 2021-22 WBBL season.[73][74] During the season, she scored a century (114 runs), while equaling the record for the highest individual score in the tournament.[75]
In 2018, Mandhana was announced as a part of the Trailblazers team in the newly formed Women's T20 Challenge.[82] She led the side that lost to the Supernovas in the inaugural exhibition season in 2018.[83] Later, Trailblazers won the title in 2020 under Mandhana's captaincy.[84] In the inaugural auction of the Women's Premier League in February 2023, she was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹34 million (US$400,000), making her the highest-paid player in the auction.[85][86] She was appointed as the team's captain, and the team won its maiden WPL title during the 2024 season. She finished as the second-highest run scorer in the title winning campaign.[87]
Statistics
As of November 2025[update], Mandhana has scored more than 9500 runs with 17 centuries in international cricket.[1] She holds the record for the most international centuries (shared with Meg Lanning) and the second most centuries in WODIs.[88] In June 2025, she became the first Indian woman to score a century in all formats of international cricket.[89] In September 2025, she scored a century against Australia in 50 balls, which is the fastest century in ODIs by an Indian batter.[90]
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