The only Test match is being played between India and England women’s team at the historic stadium of Lord’s. Team India captain Harmanpreet Kaur has achieved a big achievement in this match. She scored a brilliant half-century at the famous Lord’s cricket ground, with which she has become the first Indian player (Men’s and Women’s) to score a half-century in all three formats of the game (Test, ODI and T-20) on this ground. In this match, Harmanpreet played an excellent inning of 58 runs. During this innings, he also completed 9000 runs in international cricket.
Which batsmen have scored half-centuries in all three formats at Lord’s?
Harmanpreet Kaur has now become only the fourth cricketer in the world to score fifty or more in all three formats at Lord’s. Before him, this feat was achieved only by two legendary Sri Lankan batsmen Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene and former Pakistan captain Younis Khan. For India, Smriti Mandhana has definitely scored half-centuries in Test and ODI at Lord’s, but her highest score in T20 International has been 38 runs. Whereas in men’s cricket, Yuvraj Singh scored half-centuries in ODI and T20I at Lord’s, but he did not get a chance to play Test on this ground.
How has Team India performed so far in the only test match?
When Team India came to bat first in this match against England, they had a bad start. Shefali Verma and Yastika Bhatia were out cheaply in the initial overs. After 2 wickets fell for only 37 runs, Smriti Mandhana along with Jemimah Rodriguez took over the innings and made a vital partnership of 64 runs for the third wicket, in which Jemimah contributed 35 runs. After this, captain Harmanpreet Kaur along with Mandhana made a brilliant partnership of 89 runs for the fourth wicket. Deepti Sharma also scored 57 runs in the first innings. Thanks to the brilliant batting of all of them, the Indian team scored 285 runs after losing all its wickets on the first day of the match. In reply, by the end of the first day’s play, the England team had also scored 21 runs at the loss of one wicket.
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