Smriti Mandhana (/smrɪ.tiː ˈmɑːn.dən.ɑː/ smri-tee MAHN-dən-ah;[1] born 18 July 1996) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the national team.

[7] In December 2021, she, Tammy Beaumont, Lizelle Lee and Gaby Lewis were nominated for the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year.

[14][15] Mandhana's father played cricket at the district level for Sangli, as did her brother, Shravan, who is now a bank manager.

Watching her brother compete in Maharashtra state Under-16 tournaments inspired Mandhana to take up the sport.

Playing for Maharashtra against Gujarat, she scored an unbeaten 224 off 150 balls in the West Zone Under-19 Tournament, at the Alembic Cricket Ground in Vadodara.

[19] Playing against Melbourne Renegades in January 2017, she fell awkwardly while fielding after bowling the final ball of her over hurting her knee.

Finishing the tournament as the second-highest run scorer, Mandhana played a pivotal role in RCB's successful campaign.

[34][35] In the second ODI game of India's tour of Australia in 2016 at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart, Mandhana scored her maiden international hundred (102 off 109 balls), in a losing cause.

[37] Mandhana came into the team for the 2017 World Cup after recovering from an injury she sustained, an anterior cruciate ligament rupture, during her time at the WBBL in January that year.

In her five-month recovery period, she missed the World Cup Qualifier and the Quadrangular Series in South Africa.

[40][41][42] Smriti Mandhana scored the fastest fifty for India in Women's T20Is off just 24 balls against New Zealand in February 2019.

At 22 years and 229 days, the India women's cricket team opener was taking over from Harmanpreet Kaur, who had been ruled out of the three-match series with an ankle injury.

[61] In July 2022, she was named as the vice-captain of India's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.

[63] She was named in the India squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup[64] and their home ODI series against New Zealand in October 2024.

[70][71] She also scored the most runs by an Indian woman in a bilateral T20I series (193) surpassing Mithali Raj (192) against South Africa in 2018.