New Delhi, April 22 -- India's Smriti Mandhana has been named Wisden's Leading Cricketer in the World (Women) for 2024, an honour that caps a stellar year where she blended promise with performance to scale new heights in international cricket. Annesha Ghosh's profile on Mandhana appears in the 2025 edition of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, chronicling a year in which the elegant left-hander amassed 1,659 international runs - the highest by a woman in a calendar year. Mandhana's consistency was underlined by her four One-Day International centuries, also a record for a woman in a year, while she topped the T20I run charts with 763 runs alongside 747 in ODIs. Her adaptability across formats shone brightly, especially during a remarkable m...