Former India women's coach W V Raman says the 25-year-old is a good reader of the game and has already played few years of cricket.
India along with New Zealand and Pakistan are in contention for the last remaining semi-final spot from Group A.
IMAGES from the WPL match between UP Warriorz and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) played in Lucknow on Saturday
The duo did not receive the Arjuna Awards during the Award ceremony held last year on September 25 in Rashtrapati Bhawan, as they were out of the country taking part in international tournaments.
India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur came much cheaper for Mumbai Indians at nearly half the price of Mandhana at Rs 1.80 crore.
Jemimah Rodrigues' maiden hundred formed the cornerstone of India's commanding 116-run win against Ireland in the second women's ODI.
Images from the WPL match played between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and UP Warriorz in Bengaluru on Monday.
This victory marks a rollercoaster journey for RCB fans.
Kohli expressed his wholehearted support by calling the team 'Superwomen' in an Instagram post.
India won the match via Super Over after the scores were tied at 187 to level the five-match series 1-1.
Chasing a challenging 150-run target, Mandhana smashed 52 off 49 balls and shared 57 runs with Jemimah Rodrigues (23 off 26) for the second wicket to set the platform before India lost four wickets in the span of 10 runs and succumbed easily.
Images from the Women's World Cup match between India and the West Indies, in Hamilton, on Saturday.
Shafali Verma managed just 108 runs in six matches this year with 33 being the highest.
Shafali Verma got to the 1000 runs at 18 years and 253 days.
Ashleigh Gardner led from the front with a blazing 58 off 31 balls as bottom-placed Gujarat Giants snapped their losing streak with a dominant six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Harmanpreet has moved up three places and now has 613 rating points while Shafali rose two rungs
Mandhana (91 off 99 balls) literally drove and pulled her way before missing out on a deserving sixth WODI hundred by nine runs.
Smriti Mandhana hit a fluent half-century as India continued to hold the upper-hand against Australia, on Day 2 of the one-off Test.
India defeated Ireland by six wickets in the first women's ODI to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series in Rajkot on Friday.
Mandhana is leading the pack with 774 rating points ahead of Australia pair of Ellyse Perry and Meg Lanning.
Deepti Sharma did the star turn with career-best figures of 6/31 before doing her bit with the bat as India completed a 3-0 whitewash of the West Indies
It was a real gamble for the selectors to pick her for the tournament as Mandhana suffered a torn meniscus and anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee, which meant that she had not played any cricket since January.
Smriti Mandhana has Jhulan Goswami, Poonam Yadav and Shikha Pandey for company in the ODI team of the year and all-rounder Deepti Sharma in the T20 side.
Harleen Deol underscored her growing maturity with an impressive maiden hundred
IMAGES from the WPL final between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday
India Women produced a spotless effort to crush Australia by nine wickets in the first T20I
India registered a hard-fought six-wicket win over arch rivals Pakistan, keeping their semi-final hopes alive in the Women's T20 World Cup.
India need victory big enough to boost its net run-rate (NRR) when they face Sri Lanka on Wednesday.
'They are also doing good. Because, in the two matches they have played, it has been good. And, as a team, we have also done well.'
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur wants her side to play fearless cricket to claim an eighth consecutive women's Asia Cup title.
Relentless accuracy by the bowlers, led by Radha Yadav, drove India to a comfortable 59-run victory over New Zealand in the first women's ODI in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
Smriti Mandhana smashed 58 from just 34 balls but a middle order collapse saw India lose to New Zealand by 23 runs in the first T20 International.
Harmanpreet Kaur was on Wednesday named India women's team captain for the white-ball tour of Sri Lanka on a day when her ODI predecessor Mithali Raj announced her international retirement.
India opener Smriti Mandhana says during The Hundred she just ordered a pink kookaburra ball, just to keep it in her room, because she knew there is going to be a Test match.
Gujarat Giants recorded a comfortable 19-run victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore to log their first points after four defeats.
Smriti Mandhana expressed her overwhelming joy on winning a gold medal
Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur scored record half-centuries
'The more number of times you reach the playoffs, the probability of winning the championship is quite near.'
Opener Georgia Voll (101) and Ellyse Perry (105) smashed commanding centuries as Australia secured a series-clinching 122-run win over India in the second women's ODI.
The Australia series exposed India's frailties in the bowling department and the team has a lot of work to do before the ICC event.
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