Shafali Verma and Virender Sehwag Double Hundred Stats: The South African women's cricket team is currently on a tour of India (IND-W vs SA-W).

The tour started with a three-match ODI series, which the hosts won 3-0. Now a Test match is being played between India and South Africa in Chennai, on the first day of which a tremendous performance was seen from Harmanpreet Kaur and team. Shefali Verma batted aggressively and also scored the first double century of her Test career. Her double century has a wonderful coincidence with the statistics of former Indian batsman Virender Sehwag.

3 special coincidences seen in the special statistics of Virender Sehwag and Shefali Verma

In fact, in this match being held at Chennai's Chepauk Stadium, Shefali Verma faced 197 balls and scored 205 runs. During this, she completed her double century in 194 balls. When Sehwag scored his double century against South Africa on the same ground 16 years ago in 2008, he also faced 194 balls.

During that innings, Sehwag hit a six without fearing of getting out after reaching the 190-run mark.

At the same time, Shefali also reached close to her double century by hitting two consecutive sixes.

The third coincidence is that Shefali Verma is the fastest player to score a double century in Tests from the Indian women's team. Whereas, Virender Sehwag is the fastest player to score a double century from the Indian men's Test team. The legendary right-handed batsman completed his double century in 168 balls in the 2009 Test match against Sri Lanka in Mumbai.

It is worth noting that Shefali Verma is the second female player from India to score a double century in the Test format.

Before her, former Indian captain Mithali Raj has achieved this feat. Apart from Shefali, opener Smriti Mandhana also displayed excellent batting.

She scored 149 runs in 161 balls. Team India had scored 525/4 at stumps on the first day. Harmanpreet Kaur (42*) and Richa Ghosh (43*) are at the crease.