Smriti Mandhana (স্মৃতি মান্ধানা) is an Indian international cricketer and the vice-captain of the national team. She is third on the list of most international centuries and ODI centuries. Mandhana plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Women's Premier League. In domestic cricket, she represents Maharashtra. She has won four ICC Awards including Cricketer of the Year and ODI Cricketer of the Year.

Mandhana was born on 18 July 1996 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, to Smita and Shrinivas Mandhana, in a Marwari Hindu family. Her father worked as a chemical distributor, while her mother was a housewife. When she was two years old, her family moved to Madhavnagar, a suburb of Sangli in Maharashtra, where she completed her schooling. She attended Chintaman Rao College of Commerce in Sangli. Mandhana's father played cricket at the district level for Sangli, as did her brother, Shravan, who is now a bank manager. Watching her brother compete in Maharashtra state Under-16 tournaments inspired Mandhana to take up the sport. By the age of nine, she was selected for Maharashtra's Under-15 team, and by eleven, she was picked for the Maharashtra Under-19 team.

Mandhana has been dating music composer-filmmaker Palash Muchhal since 2019.

Her first breakthrough came in October 2013, when she became the first Indian woman to score a double-hundred in a one-day game. Playing for Maharashtra against Gujarat, she scored an unbeaten 224 off 150 balls in the West Zone Under-19 Tournament, at the Alembic Cricket Ground in Vadodara.