Smriti Mandhana Wiki Biography, Height, Age, Boyfriend, Family, Career, Net Worth

Smriti Mandhana is a well-known Indian female cricketer who primarily plays as a left-handed batsman for the Indian women’s cricket team. She was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, and grew up in Sangli, Maharashtra. She comes from a family of cricketers, with her father and elder brother having played district-level cricket for Sangli. Mandhana was inspired by her brother and started playing cricket at a young age. With the support of her family, she was selected for the Maharashtra Under-15 team at the age of 9, and joined the Under-19 team at 11.

Mandhana came into the limelight in 2013 when she scored 224 runs in 150 balls against Gujarat in a domestic one-day cricket match, hitting a double century and becoming the first Indian woman player to do so in an Under-19 cricket tournament. Smriti made her T20 debut on 5 April 2013 and her ODI debut on 10 April 2013, both against Bangladesh Women. In 2014, she made her Test debut against England Women.

Mandhana has played for various women’s cricket teams including India Women, Brisbane Heat Women, Sydney Thunder Women, Southern Brave Women, India B Women, Hobart Hurricanes Women, Trailblazers, and Western Storm. She signed a one-year deal with Brisbane Heat in Australia’s Women’s Big Bash League in 2016 and later played for Melbourne Renegades in 2017, Hobart Hurricanes for 2 years starting in 2018, and Sydney Thunder in 2021.

Smriti Mandhana, a 26-year-old Indian female cricketer, is passionate about fitness. She exercises for hours in the gym every day to stay fit for cricket matches. She stands 5 feet 4 inches tall, which is 163 centimeters, and weighs 55 kg. Her body measurements are 33-27-33, and she has black eyes and hair.

Smriti Mandhana comes from a middle-class Hindu Marwari family, and her father’s name is Shriniwas Mandhana, who is a former district-level cricketer and also a chemical distributor. Her mother, Smita Mandhana, is a homemaker, and she has an elder brother named Shravan Mandhana. As of 2023, Smriti is unmarried, and there is no information available about her husband or any news of her being in a relationship.

At the age of 9, Smriti Mandhana was selected to play for the Maharashtra U-15 team. By 11, she was already playing for the Maharashtra Under-19 team. In her international career, she made her Test debut with the England Women’s Cricket Team on August 13, 2014, and started playing One Day Internationals on April 10, 2013, against Bangladesh Women. Her T20 debut was against Bangladesh Women in England.

Smriti Mandhana has a net worth of approximately ₹27,000,000. She is a permanent member of the Indian women’s cricket team and receives an annual salary of ₹1 crore from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). She also earns well from her contract in the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) and has a popular cafe named SM 18 in her hometown Sangli. In addition, Mandhana has brand endorsements with Hero Moto Corp, Red Bull, Bata, and Air Optix Plus Hydra-Glide Contact Lenses for which she reportedly charges between ₹40 lakhs to ₹50 lakhs.