{"id":197869,"date":"2026-07-27T11:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=197869"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:02:25","slug":"watch-smriti-mandhanas-quirky-bowling-leaves-manchester-super-giants-teammates-in-splits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=197869","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Smriti Mandhana\u2019s quirky bowling leaves Manchester Super Giants teammates in splits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71273050\">Smriti Mandhana, vice captain of the Indian women\u2019s cricket team and one of the most prolific openers in the international game, is also a quirky bowler when allowed to be. Her uniquely raw action and penchant to snap up \u2018lucky\u2019 wickets were used to good effect by India head coach Amol Muzumdar during a bid to turn his team to a pack of allrounders.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the southpaw\u2019s talents and \u2018mean\u2019 right-arm seam bowling have piqued the interest of her franchise in The Hundred, Manchester Super Giants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_embed article-block-item\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unreal plot \ud835\ude69\ud835\ude6c\ud835\ude5e\ud835\ude68\ud835\ude69 \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not ready for Backyard Cricket x MSG. Stay Tuned \u23f3 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cLhclNCd2U\">pic.twitter.com\/cLhclNCd2U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester Super Giants (@ManchesterSG100) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ManchesterSG100\/status\/2081712248469504376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>With Sophie Ecclestone standing guard behind the stumps in what looked like a quick session of backyard cricket by the boundary rope, Smriti stated she\u2019d bowl \u201cextremely slow\u201d to her compatriot, India and RCB teammate Richa Ghosh. Richa managed to middle the ball but could only deflect it away on the leg side with the ball falling just in front of her. The ball landed on the grass and spun back to hit the training stumps, leaving Richa shocked and Ecclestone and the others in splits. Smriti, too, couldn\u2019t believe what she\u2019d pulled off.<\/p>\n<p>Smriti\u2019s Manchester Super Giants, led by Australian legend Meg Lanning, got off a winning start in its 2026 campaign, with a thumping seven-wicket win over London Spirit. Smriti scored a 14-ball 17 chasing a sub-par 81-run target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jul 27, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/womens-cricket\/the-hundred-smriti-mandhana-bowling-wicket-unique-cricket-videos-the-hundred-women-2026\/article71273050.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smriti Mandhana, vice captain of the Indian women\u2019s cricket team and one of the most prolific openers in the international game, is also a quirky bowler when allowed to be. Her uniquely raw action and penchant to snap up \u2018lucky\u2019 wickets were used to good effect by India head coach Amol Muzumdar during a bid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Getty20Images_Smriti20Mandhana.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":198204,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=198204","url_meta":{"origin":197869,"position":0},"title":"Indians at the Hundred, Matchday 8: Smriti Mandhana\u2019s unbeaten 88 helps Manchester Super Giants beat Deepti Sharma\u2019s Sunrisers Leeds","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 28, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A sublime unbeaten 88 and two catches from star Indian batter Smriti Mandhana helped Manchester Super Giants seal a four-wicket win over Sunrisers Leeds in a league fixture of the Hundred in Leeds on Tuesday. 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