The 15-year-old girl has amazed everyone with her bat. Yes, the 15-year-old, Shafali Verma has broken the 30-year-old record of young Sachin Tendulkar. She now became the youngest Indian cricketer to score a half-century in international cricket.
Shafali Verma’s records on Saturday
On Saturday (9th November), she scored 73 out of 49 balls in the first T20I match against West Indies women. In 1989, Sachin scored his first half-century against Pakistan in the Test match when he was 16 years and 214 days old. Shafali has now broken the record of the legend at the age of 15 years and 285 days.
Shafali Verma also becomes the second-youngest woman to score a T20I half-century after UAE’s Kavisha Egodage who was 15 years and 267 days when she achieved this feat. Shafali also crossed Rohit Sharma‘s record and become youngest Indian to score a T20I fifty.
Shafali Verma made the debut in T20I this year (2019) against South Africa. She was not impactful in her first T20I series in last September but she proved her worth for the team in the ongoing T20I series.
India Women vs West Indies Women
The hard-hitting opener Shafali Verma did wonder with her bat in West Indies soil. Her grand opening partnership with Smriti Mandhana of 143 runs broke all the records of partnership. Their partnership ended on the ball of Shakera Selman as she picked the wicket of the youngster.
Captain Harmanpreet Kaur added 21 runs more in the tally and with the little contribution of Veda Krishnamurthy’s bat, India (185/4) set the target of 186 runs for West Indies.
West Indies women were not able to reach the target. Shikha Pandey, Radha Yadav and Poonam Yadav picked two wickets each. Indian bowlers were successful in stopping the host. Indian women won the match by 84 runs as they restricted the hosts to 101/9 (20 overs).
Earlier, both the teams faced in the ODI series which India registered the victory.