ICC made a big announcement on January 27 by announcing the Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year. Indian women’s cricket team’s star player Smriti Mandhana won this title. She has won the title of ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2024.
The left-handed batsman had performed brilliantly in 2024. In such a situation, ICC also honored her with a big title and made her the Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year.
Best performance in ODI
Smriti Mandhana batted brilliantly in the ODI match played in the year 2024. Last year, Smriti Mandhana became the world’s highest run-scorer in the ODI format. He scored 747 runs in 13 innings. Apart from this, Laura Walward scored 697, Tammy Beaumont scored 554 and Hayley Mathews scored 469 runs. Smriti Mandhana left these giants behind last year and became the highest run-scorer in ODIs. This is the reason why now ICC has awarded him a big title.
Won the title of Cricketer of the Year thrice
Before the year 2024, in the year 2021, Smriti Mandhana had won the title of ICC Cricketer of the Year. 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 chosen 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. Smriti Mandhana has scored 4209 runs in 97 ODI matches at an average of 46.25, which includes 10 centuries. He has scored 3761 runs in 148 T20 matches at an average of 29.38. During this period, the opening batsmen have scored 30 half-centuries.
