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We caught up with the vice-captain of India’s women’s cricket team in Sangli, #OnTheRoad with Vogue during our cover shoot.

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At the end of the shoot, Akshara, a class VII student from Smriti Mandhana’s school waits all day to ask her a question. When the moment finally comes, she forgets what she had planned to say and bends down to touch her feet instead. For a second, the distance between where the young student stands and everything she aspires for suddenly feels smaller.
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Years before the records, Smriti Mandhana’s batting obsession was already leaving marks on the walls of the family’s rental homes. When her mother got upset, she would say, “Arre, don’t cry, Mummy. I’ll buy us a house soon.” A few years into her career, she did.
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Never one to let praise or criticism get to her too much, what Smriti Mandhana does thrive on is pressure. “When we started playing, wasn’t this what we all wanted? We wanted people to fill the stadiums for us; we wanted fans to scream and support us. Then we must accept the downside as well. None of it lasts very long anyway.”
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At the nets, Smriti Mandhana is never alone for long. Young cricketers gather around, watching closely, waiting their turn, already seeing what might be possible. Mandhana hopes the next generation won’t have to look elsewhere for references in the women’s game. “I want us to become so good, so consistent that the next generation doesn’t have to go anywhere else for comparisons. We become the reference that we never had. This is in our hands and I know it’s definitely possible.”
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For Smriti Mandhana, cricket narrows down to one obsession: batting. Nights of shadow practice in her room, screenshots of stance, head position and grip on her phone, corrections only she can see. “Batting is my solution to everything,” she says. “It’s like medicine.”
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For Smriti Mandhana, ‘home’ begins at the bridge over the Krishna River in Sangli. It is where the scale of tours, records and stadiums falls away, replaced by reminders from her mother to switch off the lights before leaving the room and snacks at Sambha Bhel.
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World Cup winner, WPL champion, ICC number one ODI batter and now a Barbie in her likeness, May cover star Smriti Mandhana’s world has expanded far beyond Sangli. Back home, though, her friends don’t really bite into the whole celebrity thing. “Lagta hai aaj tune kuch kiya hai?” they tease when a reel of her latest milestone shows up on their Instagram feed.
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Introducing our May-June 2026 Cover Star 🌟

Smriti Mandhana invites Vogue to her hometown in Sangli, Maharashtra, where life moves at its own pace. In between tours, the record-breaking vice-captain of the Indian women’s cricket team returns to sugar cane fields, school grounds and familiar routines.
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