{"id":1044,"date":"2020-07-18T14:14:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T08:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=24810"},"modified":"2020-07-18T14:14:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T08:44:35","slug":"happy-birthday-smriti-mandhana-jhulan-goswami-and-fellow-southpaw-yuvraj-singh-lead-the-wishes-on-smritis-special-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/happy-birthday-smriti-mandhana-jhulan-goswami-and-fellow-southpaw-yuvraj-singh-lead-the-wishes-on-smritis-special-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Smriti Mandhana: Jhulan Goswami and fellow southpaw Yuvraj Singh lead the wishes on Smriti\u2019s special day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wishes have been pouring in for Indian women\u2019s team opener Smriti Mandhana as she celebrates his 24th birthday on Saturday, July 18.<\/p>\n<p>In a short span of time, Smriti Mandhana has made quite a name for herself on the cricket field. The 24-year-old, who made her ODI debut in 2013 and Test debut in 2014, was the only Indian player to be named in the ICC Women\u2019s Team of the Year in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Mandhana is considered as one of the best batswomen in the current generation and is even ranked No. 4 in ODI batting rankings and is the only Indian in the top 5 of the list. Mandhana has managed to score 2025 and 1716 runs in both the formats, including four tons in ODIs, which makes her a fearless batter.<\/p>\n<p>Mandhana became the youngest player captain for India in the T20i format when she led India out against England in the first T20 International game in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) named her as the Best Women\u2019s International Cricketer in June 2018 and in the same year, International Cricket Council (ICC) awarded her with the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the best female cricketer of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Yuvraj Singh led the wishes for his fellow southpaw and talented fellow cricketer, Smriti Mandhana. He took to twitter to wish her on her special day. Further, the women\u2019s team coach WV Raman and Indian star pacer, Jhulan Goswami wished her via their twitter handle as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Birthday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mandhana_smriti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mandhana_smriti<\/a>. May you continue to excel and keep the Indian flag soaring with pride \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 Left handers in the Indian team have a reputation of being very talented, keep that up \ud83e\udd2a My best wishes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HappyBirthdaySmritiMandhana?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HappyBirthdaySmritiMandhana<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yuvraj Singh (@YUVSTRONG12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YUVSTRONG12\/status\/1284355038907756544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A very happy birthday Smriti! I hope this is the beginning of the best year ever. \ud83c\udf89 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mandhana_smriti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mandhana_smriti<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X83xTAi0WK\">pic.twitter.com\/X83xTAi0WK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jhulan Goswami (@JhulanG10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JhulanG10\/status\/1284355983393697792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">happy birthday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mandhana_smriti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mandhana_smriti<\/a> ..have a lovely day and may God bless you always..<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WV Raman (@wvraman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wvraman\/status\/1284349746987986944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smriti Mandhana turned 24 on Saturday and wishes have been pouring in for the star India opener from her teammates and others from the cricket fraternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}