India defeated England by 347 runs, won by the biggest run margin ever in women’s test.

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Mumbai . Deepti Sharma produced a brilliant all-round performance with figures of 4-32 and a total of nine wickets for 39 runs in the match as India Women bowled out England for 131 runs in the second innings on the third day of the one-off Test match DY Patil here on Saturday Won by 347 runs at the stadium, which is the biggest win in terms of runs in the history of women’s cricket.

For the record, the guests’ second innings lasted 127 minutes on the third morning as the hosts won the match with five sessions remaining.

Deepti Sharma, who had demolished England in their first innings with five wickets for seven runs, once again proved key and fast bowler Pooja Vastrakar contributed 3-23, while Rajeshwari Gaikwad took 2-20. . Harmanpreet Kaur’s team defeated England women for the first time on home ground. In the last 14 Test matches, India women had defeated England twice and both the wins came in England.

The match belonged to Deepti Sharma as she took nine wickets after scoring a half-century in the first innings, helping the hosts score 400 for the first time on the first day and post a mammoth total of 428 runs.

Earlier on Saturday morning, India declared their second innings at 186/6, giving pace bowlers Renuka Singh Thakur and Pooja Vastrakar a chance to take advantage of the pitch’s help in the morning.

They took advantage of this as Vastrakar took three wickets and Renuka took one wicket and the Indian fast bowlers made the most of the opportunity and took the first four wickets to put India on the path to victory.

When Deepti Sharma delivered the first blow in the second innings, England’s score was 68/5 in the 15th over and India were heading towards victory.

Tammy Beaumont and Sophia Dunkley added 27 runs for the opening wicket before Renuka delivered the first blow by bowling Tammy. After the first five balls went from off-stump to middle, the sixth ball went straight and hit the off-stump. Beaumont, who was expected to be England’s main batsman after scoring a double century in the previous Test, was out after scoring 17 runs from 26 balls, leaving England at 27/1.

Vastrakar then took two wickets in two balls in the 10th over to take the score to 37/3 and sent back Dunkley and Nat Sciver-Brunt consecutively.

Dunkley was out easily, firing the ball down the gully to substitute fielder Harleen Deol. On the next ball, Vastrakar dismissed Sciver-Brunt, England’s first innings hero, for a golden duck with a fighting half-century, a length ball outside off which went straight through the bat-pad gap and hit the off stump.

England captain Heather Knight scored 14 runs in one over from Renuka Singh, hitting three fours in one over off the 27-year-old fast bowler from Himachal Pradesh. His innings was cut short by Vastrakar, who orchestrated his downfall with a beautiful delivery.

Vastrakar then took his third wicket of the day. After his previous few balls had gone a little inside, the next ball was going straight. Heather Knight was bowled out on a ball pitched outside and Yastika Bhatia took a straight catch.

Deepti Sharma, who demolished England with five wickets in the first innings, took her sixth wicket of the match when she dismissed Danny Wyatt for 12, a beautiful, flighted off-break, which led to a sharp catch by Sneh Rana at slip. caught.

England’s batsmen seemed to have learned nothing from their first innings defeat as they neither showed any intent to hold on to the wicket nor score runs as they once again fell victim to the Indian bowlers.

Deepti Sharma dismissed Amy Jones for the second time in this match and made the score 82/6. Rajeshwari Gaikwad took her first wicket in the match when she dismissed Sophie Ecclestone for 10 runs. After this, Deepti moved towards taking 10 wickets in the match with a double wicket by dismissing Kate Cross and Lauren Filer.

Deepti took her fourth wicket for 22 runs in seven overs, once again taking advantage of the conditions and bowling beautifully. England were reduced to 108/9, just waiting for the inevitable.

There was no fault with the pitch, although it offered a terrible spin on occasions if the bowler made serious changes to it. But the England batsmen were not completely able to deal with such bowling as they fell victim to the Indian off-spinner.

With England down by nine wickets, the morning session was extended by half an hour, but the hosts did not have to wait long as Rajeshwari Gaikwad had Lauren Bell caught by Jemimah Rodrigues, reducing England’s innings to 27.3. The innings ended at 131 runs in the over. Just five runs less than his first innings in this match.

Deepti Sharma finished with 4-32 for nine wickets in the match, failing to become the second bowler after Jhulan Goswami to take 10 wickets in a Test match. Vastrakar took 3-23 while Rajeshwari Gaikwad took 2-20, as India won the match by 347 runs. Deepti received the Player of the Match award.

Brief scores: India 428 & 186/6 innings declared, England all out for 136 & 131 (Heather Knight 21, Charlie Dean 20 not out; Deepti Sharma 4-32, Pooja Vastrakar 3-23, Rajeshwari Gaikwad 2-20 )

–IANS

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