The Indian women’s group beat England by 347 runs in the oddball Test at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.
In the one-off Test at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Saturday, Indian women’s cricket defeated England by a staggering 347 runs, the largest margin in the history of women’s Tests. Deepti Sharma took 9 wickets in the match. The past best was Sri Lanka’s 309-run prevail over Pakistan in Colombo in 1998.
India Won The Match With Great Margin
After a patient 113-ball 67 in India’s first-innings all out of 428, Deepti obliterated England’s line-up with an electrifying 5.3-4-7-5 spell assisting the hosts with taking a monstrous 292-run lead. Yet again after her heavenly with both bat and ball in the principal innings, Deepti got the England players in a knot to get done with figures of 4/32 in the subsequent innings. She missed out on becoming the second Indian female cricketer, after the legendary Jhulan Goswami, to score 10 wickets in a match.
England Bowled Out At 131
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur declared at the overnight score of 186/6 to set Eng a daunting target of 479.
A hapless Eng side were bowled out for 131 in 27.3 overs on Day 3 of the Test match. India took all 10 Eng wickets in the first session of the third day. The Heather Knight-led side lasted only 63 overs in the entire match. They were bowled out for 136 in just 35.3 overs in the first innings.
India’s Off-Spinners Choked England
It was all Deepti after that. The off-spinner teamed up with left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad to choke England. England’s misery continued when Wyatt edged a delivery to the first slip for Deepti’s first wicket in the innings after making 12.
Deepti then had Amy Jones (5) pulling one straight to short midwicket, and in her seventh over of the innings, the 26-year-old hit the timber twice to dismiss Kate Cross (16) and Lauren Filer (0).