Smriti Mandhana

thumb|Smriti Mandhana Smriti Mandhana (born 18 July 1996) is an Indian international cricketer and the vice-captain of the Indian women's national team. She was part of the Indian team that won the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup, the Women's Asia Cup in 2016 and 2022. She also won a gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games, and a silver medal in the 2022 Commonwealth Games representing India. Quotes The efforts of those who played before us, and all of us put together as a community, have now made this possible. Imagine those ex-women cricketers, who even without getting much 30 or 40 years ago, continued to play. They made our present reality possible I don’t like the comparison between men’s cricket and women’s cricket It’s just a different game. You don’t have to put us in the same category. Initially, when tennis was developing as a sport, there were comparisons made between the serve rates of different players. Now it has reached a point where Serena Williams is appreciated just as Roger Federer is in his own right. It’s time for cricket to also reach that place. Smriti Mandhana: “I don’t like the comparison between men’s cricket and women’s cricket, VOGUE India (9 December 2022) External Links Category:Cricketers from India Category:Women in sports Category:Women from India Category:1996 births Category:Living people Category:Women born in the 1990s