Smriti Mandhana: ICC Cricketer of the Year for the second time
New Delhi, Smriti Mandhana, who has set many similar destinations in cricket for almost a decade and a half. Is once again in the limelight after being chosen the ICC Cricketer of the Year for the second time. Jan 30 (PTI) If a nine-year-old girl selected in the Maharashtra U-15 team. Plays U-19 at the age of 11 and makes her place in the senior team at the age of 15. Then It is no surprise that he has become a shining star in international cricket. Smriti Mandhana, who has set many similar destinations in cricket for almost a decade and a half. Is once again in the limelight after being chosen the ICC Cricketer of the Year for the second time.
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Smriti Mandhana is the first Indian woman player to win this award twice
The 25-year-old left-handed batsman named the ICC Cricketer of the Year for the year 2021. In the year 2021, he scored 855 runs in 22 international matches at an average of 38.86, including a century and five half-centuries. Mandhana has won this honor for the second time. Prior to this, she has also been the best women’s cricketer and best women’s ODI cricketer in 2018. Smriti Mandhana is the first Indian female player to win this award twice. Earlier Jhulan Goswami (2007) has won this award. At the same time, she is the second woman cricketer in the world to achieve this feat. Before him, Australia’s all-rounder Ellyse Perry has achieved this distinction twice (2017, 2019).
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Smriti Mandhana was born on July 18, 1996 in Mumbai. She only two years old when her family moved to Sangli in Maharashtra and Smriti had her early education there. Seeing her elder brother, she started playing cricket. And it would be interesting to know that she selected for Maharashtra U-15 team. At the age of nine and U-19 team at the age of 11.
Smriti’s batting and her game are recorded in the books of record
All the statistics related to Smriti’s batting and her game are record in the books of record. But there are some things about her that most people may not know. Seeing her brother, Smriti started batting with her left hand. By the way, she does all her work with her right hand. Initially her father used to bowl for her and she insisted that she bowl very fast and often got annoyed when she bowled slow.
At the age of nine, she took part in trials just for fun. And was selected for the Maharashtra Under-15 team. It is a different matter that he did not get a chance to play the match. It so happened that he started thinking seriously about cricket. At the age of 11, she was selected in the Under-19 team. And four years later at the age of 15 she became a member of the senior team. And has been an important part of the team since then.
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Smriti Mandhana’s excellent batting and dazzling figures are amazing
She was the only Indian cricketer to be selected in the ICC Women’s World XI in 2016. It is only because of Smriti Mandhana’s excellent batting. And dazzling figures that former women’s cricketer Shantha Rangaswamy considers her the ideal candidate for the next captain of the Indian women’s cricket team.
There was a time when Smriti Mandhana idolized Matthew Hayden. And wanted to be a batsman like him, but her coach explain that timing rather than strength was her batting specialty. And she changed her style of batting. It was indeed a very happy day for Mandhana. When she performed amazingly in T20 matches against Australia and India won the series for the first time. Matthew Hayden himself praised Mandhana’s batting.
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The mention of the player would be incomplete without his stats. Talking about Mandhana’s career, she has played four Tests, 62 ODIs and 84 T20 matches for India. In Tests, he scored 325 runs at an average of 46.42, including one century and five half-centuries. ODIs, he scored 2377 runs at an average of 41.70, including four centuries and 19 half-centuries. In T20, he scored 1971 runs at an average of 25.93 with four half-centuries to his name.
