On Friday, the first day of India’s one-off test match against South Africa, they scored 525 runs, which is more than any other team has ever scored in a single day of Test cricket.
Shafali Verma scored the fastest double hundred, and her partner Smriti Mandhana also scored a hundred at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Both of them made 354 runs, which is the most ever scored by an opener in a women’s Test match.
It only took 194 balls for Shafali to get to 100. Annabel Sutherland, an Australian, made a century off 248 balls against the Proteas earlier this year, but the 20-year-old beat that score.
This was the previous record for most runs made in a single day. It was set by Betty Snowball of England in 1935, during the first day of a test match against New Zealand.
Shafali is the second Indian woman and the second youngest woman to score a double-century in a test match. The first was Mithali Raj, who made 214 runs against England in Taunton in 2002 when she was 19.
