India’s Sneh Rana celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of England’s Amy Jones, caught out by Shafali Verma. | Photo Credit: Reuters India’s Sneh Rana celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of England’s Amy Jones, caught out by Shafali Verma. | Photo Credit: Reuters Source link
Forty years ago, India’s women played their first Test in England at Wetherby. They returned home with a draw, laying the foundation for the generations that followed. Since then, India have played eight more Tests in England, but the four-day fixture starting on Friday carries added significance as it will be the first women’s Test…
Amol Muzumdar was playing in Yorkshire when Mohammed Azharuddin’s Indian team toured England in 1996. He travelled from up north to watch the second Test, in which two young batters made their debut: Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid. Ganguly made 131 and Dravid 95. Muzumdar still remembers watching that sublime hundred by Ganguly from the…
