{ "id": "200245", "author": "26", "cnmid": "", "title": "India's Yastika Bhatia Becomes First Woman To Score Lord's Test Century", "lang": "en", "series": "704", "cup_year": "2026", "article_type": "General", "excerpt": "Yastika Bhatia rode her luck before becoming the first woman to score a Test century at Lord's as India continued to pile on the agony for England on Sunday. In what is the first women's Test ", "subtype": null, "editor1": "

Yastika Bhatia rode her luck before becoming the first woman to score a Test century at Lord's as India continued to pile on the agony for England on Sunday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In what is the first women's Test at Lord's -- 142 years and 150 matches since the ground staged it's debut men's Test -- Bhatia might have been dismissed for her overnight 39 off the very first ball of Sunday's play.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The left-hander was beaten on the inside edge by a Lauren Bell delivery that clipped off stump without dislodging the bails.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Bhatia made the most of her good fortune to complete an 86-ball fifty including six fours and was 91 not out at lunch on the third day of four, with India 250-4 in their second innings -- a huge overall lead of 365 runs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

There were no 'nervous 90s' for the 25-year-old Bhatia who soon after play resumed went to 99 by hitting England fast bowler Issy Wong for two fours off consecutive balls - a square drive followed by a carve to point.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

And a quick single off Wong then saw Bhatia to a 145-ball hundred including 12 fours, the batter punching the air in delight as her team-mates gathered on the India dressing room balcony in the pavilion to applaud her achievement.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Bhatia has now joined the likes of such India men's greats Vinoo Mankad, Dilip Vengsarkar, Mohammad Azharrudin, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid in scoring a Test century at the 'Home of Cricket'.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

India resumed on 154-1, 269 runs ahead.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

England were left needing to rewrite the record books even before a ball was bowled Sunday as the highest successful fourth-innings chase to win any women's Test is Australia's 198 against England in Sydney in 2011.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

And this was also their first morning in the field since former captain Heather Knight had announced after Saturday's close that she would be joining longtime England team-mate Tammy Beaumont in retiring from international cricket after this match.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Smriti Mandhana had been in superb touch Saturday as she backed up her first-innings 83 with another fluent half-century.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

There were hopes she might join team-mate Kranti Gaud, who took five wickets on Saturday, on the Lord's honours boards by becoming the first woman to score a Test century at the ground.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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But Mandhana had added just one run to her overnight 69 not out when she flicked at a legside delivery from Bell and was well caught low to her right by diving wicket-keeper Amy Jones.
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