Indian women’s cricket team
The Indian women’s cricket team won the Test series by beating the Australian women’s team by 8 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. This is the Indian women’s cricket team’s first win against Australia in the Test format. Apart from this spectacular victory, there was also an amazing coincidence where the Indian men’s cricket team also defeated Australia for the first time in Test cricket on December 24. In 1959, under the captaincy of Gulabrai Ramchand, India defeated Australia for the first time in the Test format by 119 runs.
Amazing coincidence after 64 years
When the Indian men’s team defeated Australia in the Test format on December 24, 1959, it was considered a historic victory for India. In this match, Jasubhai Patel played an important role in India’s victory, taking a total of 14 wickets in the match. Apart from this, Nari Contractor had scored 74 runs with the bat in the team’s second innings, which enabled India to successfully pass the target of 225 runs to Australia in the fourth innings and later restricted the Kangaroo team to just 105 runs and scored 119 runs. Won that match on his behalf.
Sneh Rana showed wonders with the ball
In the Indian women’s team’s first win in Test cricket against Australia, Sneh Rana played a very important role with the ball and took a total of seven wickets in the game. Apart from this, India were able to take a big lead in the first innings due to brilliant half-centuries from Smriti Mandhana, Richa Ghosh, Jemimah Rodriguez and Deepti Sharma in the first innings with the bat. Sneh Rana was also named Player of the Match for her outstanding performance in the match.
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