Indian women crush England by 347 runs in an historic test win , Deepti dominates

 


 The Indian women's cricket team won the one-off Test match against England by 347 runs at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai.  Team India created history by winning this match.  It defeated England for the first time in a Test on its home ground.  This is the third overall win of the Indian women's team against England.  Earlier he had won at Taunton in 2006 and Wormsley in 2014.


 At the same time, the biggest win in terms of runs was achieved in the history of women's test cricket.  Earlier, Sri Lankan women's team had defeated Pakistan by 309 runs in 1998.  At the same time, New Zealand had won against South Africa by 188 runs in 1972.





 After scoring 428 runs in the first innings, Team India bowled out England for a paltry 136 runs in the first innings.  In such a situation, India had a lead of 292 runs in the first innings.  Team India batted again and  declared the second innings at 186 runs for six wickets.  In this way England got the target of 479 runs to win.  However  entire team was knocked over  131 runs in the second innings in just one session .  For India, Deepti Sharma took four wickets and Pooja Vastrakar took three wickets.  Rajeshwari Gaikwad got two successes.  Renuka Singh Thakur took one wicket


In the second innings, England got the first blow in the form of Tammy Beaumont.  She was out after scoring 17 runs on 26 balls.  Renuka Singh clean bowled her.  Sophia Dunkley was out after scoring 15 runs.  Pooja Vastrakar sent her to the pavilion.  After Dunkley, Pooja also made Nat Sciver Brunt her victim on the next ball .  Natalie got clean bowled without opening the account as the unplayable delivery zipped back sharply to go through her defences and send the stumps cartwheeling .  After her, captain Heather Knight was also out.  Heather (21 runs) was caught behind  by Yastika Bhatia off Vastrakar.   Danielle Wyatt returned to the pavilion after scoring 12 runs.  Sneh Rana took the catch off Deepti Sharma's ball in the slips .


 Deepti Sharma gave the sixth blow to England.  She sent Amy Jones to the pavilion.  Jones was caught by Shefali Verma after scoring five runs.  After her Sophie Ecclestone was also out.  She could score only 10 runs.  Ecclestone was clean bowled by Rajeshwari Gaikwad.  Kate Cross (16 runs) and Lauren Filler (0) were clean bowled by Deepti Sharma.  Gaikwad got Lauren Bell (eight runs) caught by Jemima and ended England's innings.


Deepti Sharma for taking 9 wickets in the test and scoring  67 & 20 was the unanimous choice for the player of the match .  It was a test in which every Indian player contributed.  The strong middle order batting performance set up India's victory quest in the first innings and then the bowlers took over in style to rock England in both innings .

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