Know how an ordinary girl became the world's most expensive female cricketer
- byManasavi
- 17 Feb, 2025

Indian female cricketer Smriti Mandhana is extremely beautiful. She has made India proud by winning gold medals. At the age of 9, she made it to the Under-15 team. At the age of 16, she played an international match. Today she is the world's most expensive female cricketer. She got the title of National Crush after seeing her beauty. Millions of youth are crazy about her. But her heart beats for this boy. Know how a girl coming from an ordinary family became India's most popular female cricketer.
Indian women's cricket team's dashing opening batsman Smriti Mandhana is in the headlines these days. The reason is her winning the gold medal for India. The interesting thing is that the Indian women's team participated in the Asian Games for the first time. And for the first time itself, they won the gold by defeating Sri Lanka in the final. Indian women's cricket team's vice-captain Smriti Mandhana played an important role in doing this. She led India to victory by scoring 46 runs in 45 balls.
Smriti is a left handed opening batsman. She was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai. Her passion for cricket started by watching her brother. When she was 9 years old, she made it to the Maharashtra Under-15 team. After this, at the age of 11, Smriti secured a place in the state's Under-19 team. Smriti played an innings of 224 runs in the Under-19. Here she hit the ball with Rahul Dravid's bat which her brother had gifted her. Then when Smriti turned 16, she also played her first international match. She was praised a lot in this too.
On the basis of her skill, Smriti also became India's most expensive female cricket player. When all the franchises were including players in their team in the Women's Premier League, Royal Challengers Bangalore made Smriti Mandhana a part of their team for Rs 3 crore 40 lakh. She was India's most expensive player in the auction.
Smriti has played 78 ODIs, 119 T20s and 4 Test matches for India so far. She has won the title of ICC Cricketer of the Year twice.
Smriti is also very beautiful in appearance. People call her beauty with talent. Every youth's heart beats seeing Smriti, known as the national crush. But Smriti's heart beats for someone else.
Actually Smriti also has a boyfriend named Palash Muchhal. Palash is very handsome in appearance and is a music composer by profession. During a concert, Palash proposed to Smriti in front of everyone. Since then, their relationship has been officially confirmed.
When Smriti recently returned to India with a gold medal from the Asian Games, Palash also came to the airport to receive her. Not only this, Smriti also clicked a beautiful photo with Palash by giving him her gold medal.
The pair of both looks very cute to the fans. Smriti and Palash often share pictures with each other on social media. The way Smriti is making the country proud with her talent is truly commendable. She is an inspiration for many young girls today. There was a time when women cricketers were ignored in India. They were paid much less than male cricketers.
But Smriti changed all this with her brilliant performance and hard work. Today Smriti is the owner of property worth Rs 32 crores. And lives a luxurious life.