Smriti Mandhana ICC ODI Player of the Year: Smriti Mandhana, the star batsman and vice -captain of the Indian women’s cricket team, has been awarded the ODI of the 2024 ODI of the year 2024. For this award, players like South Africa’s Laura Volvard (697 runs), England’s Tammy Buomont (554 runs) and West Indies’ Heli Mathews (469 runs) were also in the race, but beating them all, Mandhana named these awards Done Smriti had earlier become the ODI Player of the Year in the year 2018. At the same time, after winning this award this year, she has become the second women’s cricketer in the world and the first female cricketer in India to receive this award twice.
Explain that left-handed batsman Smriti Mandhana is known for playing big innings, during the year 2024, Mandhana scored a total of 747 runs in 13 matches at an average of 57.86 and a strike rate of 95.15, including four centuries. Mandhana killed more than 100 boundaries during this period which included 95 fours and six sixes. The year 2024 became the best year of his cricket career for Mandhana in terms of runs.
Another female cricketer to achieve this achievement
Significantly, 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. So far, this award has come only twice in India and both times Mandhana has won this award.
Before Mandhana, only Suzy Bates of New Zealand has been a female cricketer who had succeeded in winning the title of ICC Women’s ODI cricketer of the year twice. New Zealand’s Bates did wonders to win the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year in the year 2013 and 2016.
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