‘Bowled’ And Beautiful: Women Cricket’s New Sensation Smriti Mandhana Is Young India’s Crush

Smriti Mandhana, the new sensation in Indian women cricket, has turned out to be the new crush of Indian youth. Of late, memes, videos and interesting collage of images related to this young cricketer Mandhana are being widely shared by social media users on the Internet.

The 20-year-old left-hander came to limelight with her brilliant knock of 90 runs against England in the group match of ICC World Cup that was played at Derby in the UK.

Born in Mumbai, Mandhana and her parents moved to Sangli town in Maharashtra where she was introduced to the game of cricket. Her father Shrinivas Mandhana, who is a chemical distributor, had also played cricket for Sangli district. She was inspired watching her brother playing Under-16 tournament for Maharashtra state. Mandhana secured place in Maharashtra Under-15 squad when she was barely 9 and at 11 years, she was picked for Under-19 state team.

Mandhana is the only Indian player to be named in the ICC Women's Team of the Year 2016.

Many fans are commenting that she looks better than the current heartthrob Disha Patani and say her smile is more sparkling than that of Alia Bhatt.

Here are some of the tweets: