{"id":526,"date":"2026-07-14T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilnadutribune.in\/?p=526"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:23:40","slug":"india-women-create-history-at-lords-defeat-england-by-270-runs-in-historic-test-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"India Women Create History at Lord\u2019s, Defeat England by 270 Runs in Historic Test Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tamil Nadu:<\/strong> The Indian women&#8217;s team&#8217;s historic victory over England in the first-ever women&#8217;s Test match played at Lord&#8217;s drew widespread praise from the cricketing world. Former and current players lauded the excellent all-round performance of Harmanpreet Kaur&#8217;s team in the magnificent 270-run win.  Many, including former captain Ajinkya Rahane, former all-rounder Irfan Pathan, and legendary batter Mithali Raj, praised Harmanpreet Kaur&#8217;s team side for its commanding all-round display. The victory also extended India&#8217;s unbeaten record in women&#8217;s Test cricket on English soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defending a target of 457 runs, India secured victory by bowling England out for 186. Off-spinner Sneh Rana claimed 4 wickets for 42 runs, while Deepti Sharma took two wickets, bringing England&#8217;s struggle to an end on the fourth day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The visiting team dominated the match on the back of brilliant individual performances. Yastika Bhatia became the first woman to score a Test century (113 runs) at Lord&#8217;s, Smriti Mandhana scored 83 and 70 runs across the two innings respectively, and Kranti Gaud achieved the feat of taking a five-wicket haul in a women&#8217;s Test at this iconic venue. Richa Ghosh also scored an unbeaten half-century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Achieved in the presence of cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and senior BCCI officials, this victory marked India&#8217;s seventh win in their last 11 women&#8217;s Test matches and represented another significant milestone in the team&#8217;s progress in red-ball cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu: The Indian women&#8217;s team&#8217;s historic victory over England in the first-ever women&#8217;s Test match played at Lord&#8217;s drew widespread praise from the cricketing world. Former and current players lauded the excellent all-round performance of Harmanpreet Kaur&#8217;s team in the magnificent 270-run win. Many, including former captain Ajinkya Rahane, former all-rounder Irfan Pathan, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[105,103,106,104],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-historicvictory","tag-indiawomen","tag-lordsstest","tag-womenscricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}