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IND Women folk won by 10 wickets
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File It was once a ten-wicket victory however it no doubt went down to the final session of the final day in Chennai
Shafali Verma role the game up and helped develop it off • BCCI
India 603 for 6 dec (Shafali 205, Mandhana 149, Ghosh 86, Harmanpreet 69, Rodrigues 55) and 37 for 0 (Shafali 24*) beat South Africa 266 (Kapp 74, Luus 65, Rana 8-77) and 373 (Wolvaardt 122, Luus 109, de Klerk 61, Gayakwad 2-55, Deepti 2-95, Rana 2-111 ) by 10 wickets
India won the one-off Test in opposition to South Africa by 10 wickets on the final session of the final day at Chepauk, conserving the company winless within the series so some distance. Shafali Verma’s double-century, Smriti Mandhana’s 149, Sneh Rana’s sensational 10-wicket haul. There had been just a few excessive-aspects for India. The match will moreover be remembered for the manner South Africa fought laborious for nearly 240 overs in testing stipulations.
That South Africa pressured India to bat for the second time after declaring at 603 for 6 showed the company’ unparalleled option, coming on the serve of the restricted purple-ball notice. From being bowled out for 266 within the first innings, South Africa rose which means of centuries each and each from Laura Wolvaardt and Sune Luus and a resolute Nadine de Klerk to retain the competition alive till the final session.
South Africa started a shaded day four on 232 for 2, trailing by 105 runs, with Wolvaardt seven fast of her maiden hundred. She introduced up her century in 259 balls, punishing anything else fast and large of off stump, however 15 overs into the game, South Africa misplaced Marizanne Kapp when she performed down the cross line and was once trapped lbw by Deepti Sharma. Delmi Tucker was once the subsequent one to drop within the following over when Jemimah Rodrigues took a animated at duvet off Rana. Now not lengthy after that, left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad, in her first over of the day, dismissed Wolvaardt for 122. After pitching the first four balls exterior off stump, she darted one on heart and leg and it went in sooner than Wolvaardt anticipated to lure her in entrance.
Thirty overs, 70 runs, three wickets within the morning. India significant trusty 5 extra for victory however had been made to toil for those.
The afternoon session was once a unruffled one with South Africa scoring 34 runs in 29 overs. De Klerk was once an unsung hero in that duration. There was once joy in her sluggish-burn, and was once a take a look at of her capacity to play the lengthy recreation. She is the least bit times ultra-aggressive in white-ball cricket. De Klerk spent 213 minutes on the sphere, and notched up her maiden Test fifty in 174 balls with seven fours. It was once one among the massive blockathons, almost giving freely nothing to the Indian spinners.
Sinalo Jafta, retired wound which means of decrease limb cramps at 9, came serve to bat within the second session, lasting 36. At tea, South Africa had been 336 for 8, trailing by one flee and gave the impact love they could perhaps bat out the overs to eke out a plot if de Klerk persisted her resilience.
But then, a wicket came out of nowhere. Shafali, in her third over of the second innings, got one to flip in to natty up Masabata Klaas. In the subsequent over, Gayakwad ended de Klerk’s innings with a flighted transport to disturb her stumps. South Africa had managed to push into the lead, however it no doubt was once greatest 36 runs. Shafali and Shubha Satheesh, who came in ahead of Smriti Mandhana, took 9.2 overs to race it down.
The predominant point of curiosity shifts to the T20Is like a flash in about a days’ time however this was once cricket at its finest at Chepauk, where females’s Tests returned for the first time since 1976.
Srinidhi Ramanujam is a sub-editor with ESPNcricinfo
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