The ICC made a big announcement on 27 January and announced the Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year. Smriti Mandhana, the star player of the Indian women’s cricket team won this title. She has won the ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2024 title.
The left-handed batsman had a brilliant performance in 2024. In this situation, the ICC also honored her with a major title and made her the Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year.
Best performance in ODIs
Smriti Mandhana batted brilliantly in the ODI match played in the year 2024. Last year, Smriti Mandhana became the highest run scorer in the world in the ODI format. He scored 747 runs in 13 innings. Apart from this, Laura Volward scored 697, Tammy Beaumont scored 554 and Hayley Mathews scored 469 runs. Smriti Mandhana surpassed these legends to become the highest run-scorer in ODIs last year. This is the reason why now ICC has awarded him with a big title.
Won the Cricketer of the Year title three times
Before the year 2024, Smriti Mandhana won the ICC Cricketer of the Year title in the year 2021. Apart from this, in the year 2018 also this player was awarded the title of Cricketer of the Year by ICC. In the year 2018, Smriti Mandhana was named ICC Cricketer of the Year and ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year.
Smriti Mandhana has so far scored 629 runs for India in 7 Test matches at an average of 57.18. During this period, he has also scored 2 centuries. In 97 ODI matches, Smriti Mandhana has scored 4209 runs at an average of 46.25, including 10 centuries. In 148 T20 matches, he has scored 3761 runs at an average of 29.38. During this period, the opening batsman has scored 30 fifties.
