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India’s men’s team won the title by defeating South Africa in the final of the T-20 World Cup on Saturday. The Indian women’s team also took inspiration from that title win and held the lead from the first day in the only Test against South Africa.
The result was that the African team collapsed on the fourth day and India won the test by 10 wickets. This is only the seventh time in the women’s Test that a team has won by 10 wickets. The Indian team won by this margin for the second time and both times against Africa. Earlier, India had defeated the host team by 10 wickets in the year 2002. Bali off-spinner Sneh Rana was the player of the match for taking 10 wickets in the match.
Bali off-spinner Sneh Rana was the player of the match for taking 10 wickets in the match.
match status
India declared its first innings by scoring 603/6 on Saturday, the second day of the match played in Chennai. Then Africa was bundled out for 266 runs in its first innings and forced to play follow-on. Africa started the second innings on Monday at 232/2. Captain Laura Walworth was out after scoring 122 runs. Nadine de Klerk scored 61 runs.
Africa’s second innings ended at 373 runs and India got the target of 37 runs, which the team achieved without losing any wicket.
India won 6 out of its last 8 test matches
- India had won only two out of the first 33 Tests in its Test history. Now he has won 6 of his last 8 tests. India won the third consecutive test. Earlier, in December last year, they had won one Test each against Australia and England. India won three consecutive Test matches for the second time.
- 30-year-old Sneh Rana became the first Indian spinner and second Indian bowler overall to take 10 wickets in women’s Test. Fast bowler Jhulan Goswami did this against England in 2006.
- South African captain Laura Walwart became the first female player in the world to score a century in all three formats in one calendar month. This year he has 3 centuries in ODIs and one century in T-20.
South African captain Laura Walworth was out after scoring 122 runs in the second innings.
