Essay on Smriti Mandhana

Important Points : Introduction - Early life of Smriti Mandhana - Cricket career of Smriti Mandhana - Achievements of Smriti Mandhana - Conclusion.

Smriti Mandhana is an Indian female cricketer who has won many cricket matches for India due to her. Smriti Mandhana has also achieved many achievements due to her excellent performance.

Smriti Mandhana was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He was born in a Marwari family. His father's name is Srinivas Mandanna and mother's name is Smita. Mandana's father works as a distributor in a factory while her mother is a housewife. Smriti was only 2 years old, since then her elder brother Shravan had caught her with a bat to play cricket. Smriti's entire family had started living in Sangli, Madhav Nagar, Maharashtra from the very beginning, due to which Smriti Mandhana's early education also took place in Sangli's school. Please inform that Smriti's elder brother Shravan Mandhana and his father Srinivas Mandhana have both played district level cricket. Smriti's brother has also played for Maharashtra under 15 team. Being associated with family sports, Smriti was inspired by her family members to take up cricket.

Smriti was only 2 years old, since then her elder brother Shravan had caught her with a bat to play cricket. Shravan was fond of his sister becoming the first cricketer, due to which he used to teach his sister to play cricket. For 4 years, Smriti Mandhana carefully watched Shravan's batting practice. Smriti's elder brother Shravan has played under-15 cricket for Maharashtra. Inspired by her elder brother Shravan, Smriti decided to play cricket. Smriti decided that she would play cricket and make her career in cricket itself. His parents and brothers all agreed with his decision. His elder brother Shravan used to make him practice too.

India's current female cricketer Smriti started her career at the age of just 11. Seeing Smriti's brilliant batting style, the selectors selected Smriti in the Maharashtra Under-19 team at the age of just 11. During a match when Smriti Mandhana was playing against Gujarat, she played a brilliant innings and made her team victorious by scoring 224 runs in just 150 balls. Smriti remained unbeaten during this innings.

With the scoring of this double century, memory became a topic of discussion and it was discussed all over India. Because till date no female cricketer could score a double century. After this, Smriti got an opportunity to play for Indian Red in the Women's Challengers Trophy in 2016. In this entire series, Smriti Mandhana scored three half-centuries. In which one of his half-century came in the final. When the Indian Red team needed a brilliant innings, Smriti played a blistering innings of 62 runs to help her team win the final. After this performance, there was no looking back for Smriti. Smriti Mandhana continued to perform better after this. Due to his excellent performance, he also got a place in Team India. Seeing the excellent performance of Smriti Mandhana in domestic cricket, the selectors of the Indian team selected Smriti for the Bangladesh tour in 2013. In the 2017 World Cup qualifier match, she scored 90 runs and Smriti Mandhana scored 106 runs against West Indies in the subsequent match.

Smriti Mandhana has also achieved many achievements due to her excellent performance. Smriti Mandanna has kept the Indian team sitting on a high peak due to her excellent performance. In the same year 2021, Smriti Mandana scored a brilliant century in the Day Night Pink Ball Test against Australia. As soon as this century was scored, a record was also earned in the name of Smriti Mandana. Before Smriti Mandhana, no female batsman could score a century in Tests with pink ball till date. Along with this, in 2017 Smriti Mandana scored a brilliant 90 runs in the qualifier match and Smriti Mandana played an innings of 106 runs against West Indies.

Smriti Mandhana has also been rewarded at many places for her best game. In the year 2018, Smriti Mandana was given the award for playing good cricket by the ICC. The ICC said that in 2018, Smriti has played the best cricket for which she was given this award. In the year 2019, Smriti Mandana was also honored with the Arjuna Award by the Government of India. In the year 2019, Smriti Mandana was awarded the ICC Women's ODI Player of the Year by the ICC itself. She was honored with this award because in 2019, Smriti had shown very good performance in ODI cricket. Smriti Mandanna was also honored with the ICC Women's Cricket of the Year award by the ICC in 2019 itself.

There is a huge number of cricket lovers in our country. Cricket has always been the favorite game of India. The thrill associated with this is rarely seen on any other playground. It is worth noting that apart from the men's cricket team, nowadays women's cricket team is also getting a lot of encouragement. The players of the women's cricket team are making a place in the hearts of the audience on the strength of their better performance. Mandhana played her first test match against England at Wormsley Park. He helped his team win the match by scoring 22 and 51 runs in their first and second innings respectively. In the second ODI of India's tour of Australia in 2016 at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart, Mandhana scored her maiden international century (102 runs in 109 balls). Smriti was the only Indian woman player to be included in the ICC women's team in 2016.