Smriti Mandhana ICC ODI Player of the Year: Indian women’s cricket team’s star batsman and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana has been awarded the title of ODI Player of the Year for the year 2024 by the ICC. Players like South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt (697 runs), England’s Tammy Beaumont (554 runs) and West Indies’ Hayley Matthews (469 runs) were also in the race for this award, but Mandhana won this award by defeating them all. Did it. Smriti had earlier become the ODI Player of the Year in 2018. By winning this award this year, she has become the second woman cricketer in the world and the first woman cricketer in India to receive this award twice.
Let us tell you that left-handed batsman Smriti Mandhana is known for playing big innings, during the year 2024, Mandhana had scored a total of 747 runs in 13 matches at an average of 57.86 and strike rate of 95.15, which included four centuries. Mandhana hit more than 100 boundaries during this period, which included 95 fours and six sixes. The year 2024 became the best year of Mandhana’s cricket career in terms of runs.
Became the second female cricketer to achieve this feat
It is noteworthy that Mandhana has won the ICC ODI Player of the Year award for the second time. Earlier, she had won this award in the year 2018. Till now, this award has come to India only twice and Mandhana has won this award both the times.
Before Mandhana, New Zealand’s Suzie Bates was the only female cricketer who had succeeded in winning the title of ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year twice. New Zealand’s Bates did the wonders of winning the title of ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year in 2013 and 2016.
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