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Indian cricketer (born 1996)
Smriti Mandhana is an Indian international cricketer and the 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, 2022 and 2026. She also won gold medals at the 2022 and 2026 Asian Games, and a silver medal in the 2022 Commonwealth Games representing India.
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Team sport played with a bat and ball
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. Two players from the batting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in front of either wicket holding bats, while one player from the fielding team, the bowler, bowls the ball toward the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch.
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UNICEF India on Sunday announced the appointment of international cricketer Smriti Mandhana to join the ranks of the UN Child Rights Agency’s Celebrity Advocate. In the new role, Mandhana is set to build on her earlier work to champion equal rights and opportunities for children and young people.
NEW DELHI: UNICEF India has announced the appointment of international cricketer Smriti Mandhana to join the ranks of the UN Child Rights Agency’s Celebrity