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Shafali Verma's Teenage India Dream Goes On With Debut Test Fifties

By AFP News June 20, 2021 • 11:49 AM View: 1788

India may have drawn their one-off women's Test away to England in Bristol on Saturday, but the match represented another landmark for teenage batting sensation Shafali Verma.

The 17-year-old opener becomes the first Indian and the youngest woman from any country to surpass fifty in both innings of her debut Test with scores of 96 and 63.

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