India on Saturday recorded the very best staff complete in girls’s Take a look at cricket on day two of the one-off Take a look at towards South Africa, surpassing the earlier better of 575/9 set by Australia. Australia had posted the full in Perth this February however India achieved the brand new report when Richa Ghosh hammered a 4 within the opening ball of the 109th over bowled by Annerie Dercksen. A lot of the credit score for the feat goes to Indian openers — Shafali Verma (205) and Smriti Mandhana (149) — who shared an iconic stand of 292 — the very best opening partnership in girls’s cricket.

It has additionally been nicely aided by Jemimah Rodrigues (55) together with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and Richa, who’re at present unbeaten previous their respective half-centuries.

On Day 1, India had completed on 525 for 4, having posted the highest-ever single-day complete in a Take a look at match, breaking the earlier report held by Sri Lankan males’s staff — 509 for 9 — towards Bangladesh in Colombo in 2002.

Since girls’s check cricket started in 1934, that is the primary occasion {that a} staff has touched the figures of 575 in an innings.

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