Smriti Mandhana Turns 27: Here’s A Look At Star Opener’s Achievements, Records | Cricket News

India’s ace cricketer Smriti Mandhana, who made her worldwide debut on the age of 16 towards Bangladesh in 2013, celebrates her twenty seventh birthday on Tuesday. The vice captain is getting ready for the second ODI towards Bangladesh to be performed on Wednesday, which exhibits her dedication and love in direction of cricket. The elegant opener has not taken her foot off the gasoline since then and has represented India in 4 Tests, 78 ODIs, and 119 T20Is. She took centre stage after demonstrating her batting expertise within the 2017 ICC World Cup. The teenager was instrumental in taking India to the World Cup finals, the place they have been defeated by England by 9 runs.

Mandhana is now a senior member of the squad and has established herself as a pillar of the Indian girls’s cricket staff.

As the star opener Mandhana celebrates her twenty seventh birthday, here’s a take a look at her data and achievements.

Mandhana grew to become the third-quickest Indian to attain 1000 runs in T20Is. She was additionally the tenth-fastest batter in girls’s cricket historical past to realize this feat. The Mumbai batter took simply 49 innings to interrupt the 1000-run mark. In February 2019, the Mumbai batter set the file for the quickest T20I fifty by an Indian participant. Mandhana achieved her half-century towards New Zealand in simply 24 balls.

Mandhana grew to become the primary participant in ODI historical past to attain ten consecutive fifty or extra whereas chasing. Her exceptional run started in 2018 when she batted second and hit 67 runs off 53 deliveries towards Australia Woman.

The opener was named the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year in 2018 and 2021.

Mandhana additionally acquired a half-century on her Test debut in India’s historic Test victory over England.

In 2021, once more in a Test match towards England Mandhana alongside along with her opening accomplice Shafali Verma put up a partnership of 167 which is the fourth-highest within the historical past of girls’s Test cricket.

She and Australia’s Elyse Perry are the one gamers to have received the ‘Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award’ twice. Mandhana was additionally named the ICC’s ODI Player of the Year in 2018 after amassing the best factors within the calendar 12 months.

(This story has been edited by Mahaz News workers …)