Smriti Mandhana strikes pose with her boyfriend after winning Gold medal in Asian Games 2023

Indian women’s cricket team created history on Monday, September 25 by winning the Gold medal in the T20I women’s tournament. They defeated Sri Lanka by 19 runs at the Pingfeng Campus Cricket Field in Hangzhou. The Harmanpreet Kaur-led team were the favourites to win the tournament and they lived up to the expectations very well.

Meanwhile, an image is getting viral on social media in which India’s opener Smriti Mandhana struck a pose with her boyfriend Palash Muchhal. Palash himself took to his Instagram handle and shared the picture with Smriti and her Gold medal. While sharing the post, he also wrote a caption which says, “Super Proud @smriti_mandhana. 

Palash is a young film director and a popular music composer who has composed some famous songs in Bollywood. Smriti and Palash have been dating each other for quite a while now. The two have been often spotted spending quality time with each other and promoting each other on social media.

A brilliant all-round performance by India in the final

Smriti is the Indian cricket team’s vice-captain and she also led the team in some of the matches in the Asian Games 2023 as the team’s regular skipper Harmanpreet was running out of the squad due to injury. Smriti impressed a lot with his captaincy skills, she also played a major role in India’s victory in the final match.

The left-handed opener scored 46 runs off 45 balls which included 4 fours and 1 six. Apart from her, Jemimah Rodrigues was the only batter to get a double-digit score. Rodrigues played a brilliant inning of 42 runs of 40 balls including 5 fours and the team could able to score only 116 runs in 20 overs.

However, India’s talented bowler Titas Sidhu made sure to provide India with initial breakthroughs as she dismissed 3 Sri Lankan batters on the score of just 14 runs. Indian bowlers kept the line and length very tight and didn’t let the batters score easily due to which they fell 19 runs short of the target.