A plethora of records were set and broken during as India beat England by 309 runs in the women’s Test match in Navi Mumbai.
Women’s Test cricket was held in India for the first time in 9 years and 28 days. With this, DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai became16th. A women’s Test match will be held at the Indian venue (her 78th in the world).
This was also England’s 100th Women’s Test, making them the first team to reach this milestone. It is followed by Australia (77), New Zealand (45) and India (39).
It was the 15th time in history that India’s first innings included four fifties – Shubha Satheesh, Jemimah Rodrigues, Yastika Bhatia and Deepti Sharma. However, this was the first time that four batsmen scored his 65 runs in the same innings.
India reached 410 wins and 7 losses on the first day, recording the second-highest one-day result in women’s Test cricket. In 1934-1935, England beat New Zealand to her 44th victory in Christchurch on the opening day, scoring 431 for 4.
India ended up scoring 428 points, making it the second-highest total after 467 at Taunton in 2002 and the 12th highest in history.
England were bowled out for 136 in 35.3 overs in the first innings. He scored just three runs against India, which was his shortest innings. They will be even worse after his second innings (131 in 27.3 overs).
Sharma’s 5-7 was her first five-wicket win. Of all five forces, only Mary Duggan (6-6) conceded fewer points, with Betty Wilson also giving up fewer points with her 6-7.
India ultimately defeated England by a margin of 479 runs. Sharma finished with 4 wins and 32 losses for England, which fell to 131 points. Their 9-39 record is the second best record among Indians players behind Jhulan Goswami’s 10-78 at Taunton in 2006.
Sharma also became the third player, after Betty Wilson (twice) and Catherine Shiver-Brunt, to score fifty in an innings twice and take four wickets in the same Test match.
India won the Test match by 347 runs, making it the first time they have won a Test match by a run difference (although in 2014-2015 they beat South Africa by an innings by batting first). We won). It was also thelargest run difference win in Test cricket history, surpassing Sri Lanka’s 347-run victory over Pakistan in Colombo in 1998.
This was also India’s first Test win against England on home soil.
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