STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
Follow UsThe Indian women have continued their Test match streak at home by winning the Chennai Test. However, it wasn’t as easy as the last two wins. India would have thought that after scoring 603 runs in their first innings, the rest of the Test would be a walk in the park.
However, the South African women ground out India for two and a half days on the field and made India bat again despite being 337 runs behind and following on after the first innings.
Here are all the essential stats from this Test, which saw many records breath their last:
> India became the first women’s team to win four Test matches in a row at home.
> The 525 runs scored by India on Day 1 of the Test is the highest total achieved by any Test-playing team (men or women).
The second highest is 509/9, scored by the Sri Lankan men’s team in Colombo, 2002.
> India have now won their 8th Test match overall, and 5th at home. Five of those wins have come in the last seven Tests.
India in Women's Tests
1976-2013 - 34 matches, 3 wins, 6 losses, 25 draws
Since 2014 - 7 matches, 5 wins, 2 draw
> This IND vs SA match has 2nd most cumulative runs in a Women's Test match.
Most runs in a Women's Test match
1371 - ENG vs AUS, Nottingham, 2023
1279 - IND vs SA, Chennai, 2024
1143 - ENG vs AUS, Guildford, 1998
1098 - ENG vs SA, Shenley, 2003
1095 - AUS vs ENG, Canberra, 2022
> Laura Wolvaardt became the only woman to score a century in all three formats in the same calendar year.
Her centuries in 2024:
WT20I - 102 vs SL, East London, March 27
WODIs - 110* vs SL, Kimberley, April 13
184* vs SL, East London, April 17
135* vs IND, Bengaluru, June 19
WTests - 122 vs IND, Chennai, 1st Jul 2024
Note: This feat has been repeated nine times in Men’s cricket.
> Wolvaardt is now only the 3rd batter in Women's International to hit a century in all three formats.
Note: Wolvaardt also became only the 2nd South African captain to score a century in Women's Test cricket, following Mignon du Preez's 102 against the same opponent in 2014.
> Sneh Rana becomes the 1st Indian spinner and the 2nd bowler overall to take a 10 wicket-haul in a Women's Test Match.
Indian bowlers taking a 10 wicket haul in Women's Tests
10/78 - Jhulan Goswami vs ENG, Taunton, 2006
10/188* - Sneh Rana vs SA, Chennai, 2024
> Rana’s eight-wicket haul in the first innings is the second-best bowling figure in an innings by an Indian bowler.
Best bowling figures in an innings for India in W-Tests
8/53 Neetu David vs England, Jamshedpur 1995
8/77 Sneh Rana vs South Africa, Chennai 2024
6/9 Gargi Banerjee vs New Zealand, Cuttack 1985
> Shafali Verma scored the fastest double hundred by any woman in history.
Fastest double century in W-Tests (by balls faced)
194 Shafali Verma vs SA, Chennai 2024
248 Annabel Sutherland vs SA, Perth 2024
306 Karen Rolton vs ENG, Leeds 2001
317 Tammy Beaumont vs AUS, Nottingham 2023
343 Micehlle Goszko vs ENG, Shenley 2001
371 Ellyse Perry vs ENG, North Sydney 2017
> Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma now have the highest-ever opening partnership in Women’s Tests
> This was the 3rd instance two or more batters have scored a century against India in an innings.
Instances 2 or more batters scoring centuries in an innings against India in Women's Tests
Pete Verco (105), Jill Kennare (131), Karen Price (104*) - AUS, Ahmedabad, 1984
Janette Brittin (125), Carole Hodges (121*) - ENG, Worcester, 1986
Sune luus (109), Laura Wolvaardt (122) - SA, Chennai, 2024
> Shafali Verma became the first woman to score 200 or more in a single day's play in Test cricket.
Previously, England's Betty Snowball scored 189 in Christchurch in 1935.
> Shafali also became the first Indian opener and second Indian overall after Mithali Raj to score a double hundred in a Test.
Highest scorers for India in a W-Tests
Mithali Raj 214 vs England, Taunton 2002
Shafali Verma 205 vs South Africa, Chennai 2024
MD Thirush Kamini 192 vs South Africa, Mysore 2014
Sandhya Agarwal 190 vs England, Worcester 1986
Smriti Mandhana 149 vs South Africa, Chennai 2024
> Smriti Mandhana now has the most number of international hundreds for an Indian woman - 9.
She has 2 centuries in Test cricket and 7 in ODIs.
Mithali Raj has 8 centuries overall (7 ODIs, 1 Tests).
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