Indian Cricketer Smriti Mandhana ICC Women’s ODI cricketer 2021
Indian Cricketer Smriti Mandhana ICC Women’s ODI cricketer 2021
Smriti Mandhana India opening batter has been declared as the winner of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy as the ICC Women’s Cricketer for the year 2021. In the series against South Africa were won only two of the eight matches at home, Mandhana played a pivotal role in both wins. She scored 80 not out as India chased down 158 in the second ODI that held them level the series and scored 48 not out in the win in the final T20I. Mandhana played a sublime inning of 78 in the first innings of the one-off Test against England that ended in a draw. She played an important knock of 49 in India’s only win in the ODI series. Her 15 ball 29 and fifty in the T20I series went in vain though as India fell short in both the matches and lost the series 2-1. She scored 86 in the second ODI. She compiled the century (the first of her career) in the only Test and was awarded the Player of the Match.
Smriti Mandhana scored a century in the first-ever pink-ball Test
She made the pink-ball test memorable by scoring a century in the longest format. Her innings came to an end at 127, after putting India in a strong position. The match ended in a draw, and Smriti Mandhana was declared the Player of the Match.
