0 defeats for India Women on English soil. They have played 9, won 2, and drawn 7. No other touring side has remained undefeated in England.
0.5 England’s win-loss ratio against India (1 win, 2 defeats), their worst against any side. Australia and India are the only teams to have beaten England.
4-131 figures for Sneh Rana, the fifth-best by an Indian on debut. The best still remains Shubhangi Kulkarni’s 5-48 in India’s first ever Test match.
4 cricketers have now scored a fifty and taken a four-wicket haul on Test debut. Rana (4-131, 80*) now joined Myrtle Maclagan (7-10, 72), Betty Wilson (90, 4-37, 6-28), and Chamani Seneviratna (5-31, 105*). Deepti Sharma (3-65, 54) missed out.
8 wickets for Sophie Ecclestone (4-88 and 4-118), the most for England against India in a Test match. Ecclestone went past Gillian McConway (7-40), Debra Stock (7-76), and Avril Starling (7-97).
8 Test matches and 16 years since England last won a Test match at home. They last beat Australia at New Road, Worcester, in 2005. Since then, they have lost thrice and drawn five times.
19 Test grounds have hosted Women’s Test matches in England now. County Ground, Bristol became the latest.
41 wickets for Jhulan Goswami. She is now the joint third-highest wicket-taker for India, along with Neetu David. Only Diana Edulji (63) and Kulkarni (60) have more wickets.
74* by Sophia Dunkley is now the third-highest score by an England debutant against any side, after Lesley Cooke (117) and Enid Bakewell (113). It is also the sixth-highest score by any debutant against India (Cooke tops this list as well).
88 women have played Test cricket for India now. Taniya Bhatia, Rana, Shafali Verma, Sharma, and Pooja Vastrakar were their latest debutants.
96 runs by Verma in the first innings, the highest individual score by any Indian debutant. Rana’s second-innings 80* is at second place. Verma’s second-innings 63 is at joint seventh, while Sharma’s second-innings 54 is joint ninth.
104* added by Rana and Bhatia in the second innings, the second-highest for the ninth wicket in the history of Women’s Test cricket. The record is still 107, between Beverly Botha and Maureen Payne, for South Africa against New Zealand at Cape Town in 1971/72.
159 runs by Verma (96 and 63), the third-highest for any debutant. Only Michelle Goszko (204) and Cooke (72 and 117) got more.
161 women have played Test cricket for England now. Sophia Dunkley became their latest debutant.
167 opening stand between Verma and Smriti Mandhana in the first innings, the highest for India for the first wicket and the second-best for any wicket. The highest still remains 275 between Thirushkamini and Punam Raut for the second wicket against South Africa at Mysuru in 2014/15. This is also the fourth-highest opening stand in Women’s Test cricket.