The Harmanpreet Kaur-led India achieved a historic feat as they hammered England by 347 runs within the one-off Test on the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Mumbai on Saturday (December 16). The complete win over the Heather Knight-led facet is India’s maiden Test win towards England on home soil.
England had beforehand participated in 5 Tests on Indian soil throughout three completely different excursions (1995/96, 2001/02 and 2005/06). The guests had gained the three-match Test sequence throughout the 1995/96 tour 1-0 and the opposite two sequence had resulted in attracts.
Coming again to the sport, India declared their second innings after posting 186 runs on the board for the lack of six wickets and posted a big whole of 479 runs for the vacationers to chase down.
England’s batting order fell like a pack of playing cards and so they obtained bundled out for simply 131 runs. Deepti Sharma who was India’s star with the ball within the first innings spun one more fantastic net to strangulate the English batters and claimed 4/32 within the second innings.
Deepti completed with match-winning figures of 9/38 and in addition scored 67 within the first innings to contribute to India’s enormous whole of 428. She was awarded the Player of the Match (POTM).
Other than Deepti, Pooja Vastrakar and Rajeshwari Gayakwad additionally impressed with their bowling within the second innings and bagged a three-fer and a two-wicket haul respectively.
Meanwhile, Knight and her staff would wish to put the defeat behind them. Barring just a few situations of particular person brilliance, England had nothing to write down home in regards to the fixture. Nat Sciver-Brunt scored the one fifty for England within the sport whereas Charlie Dean picked up a four-wicket haul in India’s second innings and saved their run fee in test.
The win goes to spice up India’s morale an important deal as they put together to play one more Test on home soil beginning December 21 towards Australia on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
