India made a new history in international women’s test cricket. What no team could do in the last 90 years of women’s test cricket, the Indians have done it today on Saturday. They have crossed the quota of 600 runs in one innings.
India posted an innings of 603 for 6 in the only Test against the South African women’s cricket team at the MA Chidambaram Cricket Stadium in Chennai. In this, Harmanpreet’s team recorded the highest runs scored in an innings in the history of women’s cricket.
Before this, Australia declared an innings against South Africa with 575 runs for 9 wickets. India broke that record of Aussies today.
Two openers have to be credited for India’s run-up. After winning the toss, Shefali Verma and Smriti Mandana scored 292 runs in the opening pair. This is the biggest opening pair in the history of women’s Test cricket.
On this day, Shefali scored the fastest double century in the history of women’s Test cricket. Earlier this year, Australian cricketer Annabelle Sutherland scored a double century off 248 balls.
Besides, Shefali became the second Indian cricketer after Mithali Raj to score a double century in Tests. In the end, after playing an innings of 205 runs from 197 balls, he got an unexpected run out and returned to the dressing room.
Another opener Mandana scored 149 runs off 161 balls. After finishing the innings with 27 boundaries and 1 six, he was caught by Dirksen off Delmi Tucker.
Besides, Gemina Rodriguez played an innings of 55 runs off 94 balls. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored 69 runs off 115 balls. Richa Ghosh was trapped lbw after playing another brilliant innings of 86 runs off 90 balls and India declared the innings.
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