{"id":429538,"date":"2026-02-17T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429538\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:03:08","slug":"smriti-mandhana-named-bbc-indian-sportswoman-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429538\/","title":{"rendered":"Smriti Mandhana named BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World Cup-winning cricketer Smriti Mandhana has been named BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year for 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mandhana, 29, was India&#8217;s vice-captain as they won the 2025 ICC Women&#8217;s World Cup, scoring 434 runs across the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also nominated for the award were India captain Harmanpreet Kaur, chess champion Divya Deshmukh, shooter Suruchi Singh and hurdler Jyothi Yarraji.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Accepting the award, Mandhana reflected on a &#8220;special year&#8221; for women&#8217;s cricket<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thank you BBC for giving me the award for Best Sportswoman of the Year,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m happy I could contribute and help India win matches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mandhana was chosen by a distinguished grand jury comprising Grand Slam tennis champion Leander Paes, Paralympic medallist Deepa Malik and World Championship long-jump medallist Anju Bobby George.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mandhana made her debut for India aged 16 and has scored 17 international centuries across the three formats of the game &#8211; a record she shares with Australia&#8217;s Meg Lanning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has also won two Women&#8217;s Premier League titles with Royal Challengers Bengaluru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Cup-winning cricketer Smriti Mandhana has been named BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year for 2025. Mandhana, 29,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-429538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}