The Indian cricket team has defeated South Africa for the second time in three days. Earlier, the men's team defeated Africa on 29 June and won the T20 World Cup 2024 title. Now the Indian women's team has defeated the African women's team in a Test match. Actually, the only Test match between the women's teams of India and South Africa was played in Chennai. This 4-day Test match started on 28 June, on the last day of which on July 1, the Indian team achieved success and won the match by 10 wickets.
After bowling out South Africa for 373 in the second innings, India got an easy target of 37 runs to win, which the host team achieved in 9.2 overs without losing any wicket. India declared the first innings at 603 runs for 6 wickets. For India, opener Shubha Satish scored unbeaten 13 and Shefali Verma scored unbeaten 24 to lead the team to victory. / India had earlier defeated South Africa by 10 wickets in Paarl in 2022.
Let us tell you that after being bowled out for 266 runs in the first innings, South Africa performed brilliantly in the second innings. Laura Wolvaardt scored 122 runs off 314 balls and Sune Luus scored 109 runs off 203 balls. Playing ahead at 232 runs for the loss of 2 wickets, Wolvaardt and Marianne Kapp continued to score runs. Wolvaardt scored her first Test century and became the first female cricketer to score centuries in Tests, ODIs and T20Is in the same year.
Deepti Sharma dismissed Kapp LBW for 31 runs. Sneha Rana sent Delmi Tucker back to the pavilion without opening her account. Wolvaardt was dismissed LBW for 122 runs by Rajeshwari Gaikwad. De Klerk and Masabata Klaas saved the team from losing the innings by sharing 23 runs.