Smriti Mandhana, the stalwart at the top of the Indian batting line-up for the women’s teams is a huge fan of Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara. And her fandom led to her copying the copying the elegant left-hander, revealed Anant Tambvekar, Smriti Mandhana’s childhood coach from Sangli."Smriti was very lively since her childhood. But at the nets, she was extremely disciplined. She never used to leave the nets unless she had mastered a shot. Later on, she became a fan of Kumar Sangakkara. In the nets, she always tried to copy Sangakkara while batting. Sometimes I had scolded her for trying to copy the Sri Lankan great,” he said in an interview with OneIndia.
