Smriti Mandhana Arju has become a big name in the cricket world and she is also known as Virat Kohli of the women’s world. Let us tell you that Smriti Mandhana has faced a lot of struggle to reach here, it was not easy for her to reach here.

In this year’s IPL, Smriti Mandhana became the most expensive female player and was bought by Bangalore for Rs 3.40 crore. She has become the most expensive cricketer of the women’s cricket team so far.

Smriti Mandhana, born in Mumbai in the year 1996, got the inspiration to play cricket from her elder brother Shravan. Shravan has also played age group cricket for Maharashtra. Seeing Shravan, Smriti also decided to become a cricketer. Smriti’s hard work paid off and she fulfilled her dream with hard work. Smriti came into limelight in October 2013, when she became the first Indian woman to score a double century in an ODI. Then playing for Maharashtra, he scored an unbeaten 224 off 150 balls against Gujarat in the West Zone Under-19 tournament.

Smriti Mandhana made her international debut in April 2013 in a T20 match against Bangladesh. At that time Smriti was only 16 years old. In the same month, Smriti also made her ODI debut against Bangladesh. After this, in the year 2014, Smriti Mandhana started her Test career by playing against England.

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