India women exhibit their might in one-off test vs England

Test Match Cricket returned to India but this time it was the Indian Women’s Cricket team. Up against the Harmanpreet Kaur-led side was the England team. The match began on Thursday at the DY Patil Stadium in Nerul.

Indian Women were playing just their 38^th test match despite making their first test appearance 47 years ago. The record for India isn’t impressive in the longest format of the game. Team India has won just 5 games and lost on 6 occasions while 27 games were drawn.

Smriti Mandhana won the toss and chose to bat first and team India entered their names in the record books. The home team had scored 410 runs for the loss of 7 wickets from 94 overs of play.

Records tumble as runs pile up in Mumbai –

Indian Women’s Cricket team showed their might with the bat to score 410 runs from just 94 overs at the end of day 1. Quite a few records tumbled as the Indian women took the English bowlers to task with the bat.

One of the biggest records is the mere fact that no team in women’s cricket has scored over 400 runs in test cricket for nearly 88 years. England had scored 431/4 during the 1935 test match versus New Zealand on the 1^st day.

There was one more record that was created during the day when the Indian team made the second-highest runs aggregated during the day. The New Zealand versus England test match in 1935 saw 475 runs being scored during the entire day.

Subha Satheesh scored the fastest-ever half-century by an Indian woman in test cricket. The batter achieved the feat in just 49 balls and the previous best was held by Smriti Mandhana. Earlier in the day Smriti Mandhana was out for 17 while fellow opener Shafali Varma was out for 19.

Jemimah Rodriguez and Subha Satheesh then added 115 runs for the 3^rd wicket in 146 balls. Satheesh was out after after scoring 69 runs from just 76 balls while Rodrigues was out for 68.

Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur was out for 49 runs with Yastika Bhatia the wicket-keeper and batter scoring 66. At stumps, Deepti Sharma was batting on 60 while Pooja Vastrakar was on 4.