Delhi: Team India's score of 603-6 runs in the women's test against South Africa in Chennai is a record in itself (previous highest test score: Australia-South Africa 575-9 in 2024) and what is even more important is that for the first time in women's first class cricket a team has crossed the score of 600 runs (previous highest first class score: Australia's 595 runs against England A in 1998). The biggest role in these records was played by India's score of 525-4 runs on the first day of the test. Yes, 525 runs in a day's play.

So, it is not difficult to guess that many new records were made throughout the day and there will be many more which will be known later when we research these scores more closely. 130 runs before lunch, 204 runs in 32 overs in the second session and 191 runs after tea. The process of making records was started by both the openers Shefali Verma (205) and Smriti Mandhana (149) and experts of statistics just kept on changing the records.

• Smriti continued her ODI form – 149 off 161 balls with 27 fours and 1 six and made her third 100 in 4 international matches in this series against South Africa. See More:
• New record of 9 International 100s, most by any Indian Woman cricketer (Previous record: Mithali Raj 8 centuries).
• Talking about 100 runs, Shefali took 113 balls for this whereas Smriti took 122 balls (faster than her only: 106 balls- Chamani Seneviratne, Sri Lanka-Pakistan, 1998). Two Indian batsmen were close to breaking the record of fastest 100 in a single day.

• Shafali not only scored her first Test 100, but also scored a 200. The most interesting thing is the comparison with a 200 scored by Virender Sehwag, who has an amazing strike rate in Test cricket. In 2008, when Sehwag scored 200 in 194 balls (new record for the fastest 200 by any Indian male cricketer) against South Africa at Chepauk, he also hit a 6 after 190 – the same thing Shafali did in the same stadium, against the same team – 200 in 194 balls (new record for the fastest 200 by any Indian female cricketer) and also hit a 6 after 190. See more:
• She hit 8 sixes in this innings – more than any other female player has hit in their entire Test career.
• First female batsman to score 200+ runs in a day (Previous record: 189 – Betty Snowball, England-New Zealand, 1935).
• Shafali getting run out after scoring 200 in a Test is also special and she is not only the first Indian woman to do so, among male cricketers, only Sanjay Manjrekar (against Pakistan, 1989) and Rahul Dravid (against England, 2002) have faced this misfortune.
• She is now 2nd in the record for youngest to score 200 in Women's Tests at the age of 20 years 152 days (Youngest: 19 years 256 days – Mithali Raj, v England, 2002).

Both of them added a record 292 runs in the first wicket partnership. But this partnership failed to record the second score of 300 in Test cricket. Yes, if we look at only the first wicket partnership, then a new record was definitely made (Previous record: 241 run partnership of Kiran Baloch-Sajida Shah for Pakistan).

• Highest partnerships from India in Women's Test:
  292 – Shefali Verma-Smriti Mandhana, against South Africa, 2024
  275 – Poonam Raut and Thirush Kamini against South Africa, 2014

At stumps on day one, Harmanpreet Kaur and Richa Ghosh were at 42* and 43* respectively. Day one's 525-4 is a new Test record (previous highest single-day score by a team: Sri Lanka's 509 against Bangladesh on the second day of the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium Test in Colombo), while the combined scores of both teams are a record 588 runs set in a Test between England and India in 1936. However, in first-class cricket, during the 1948 England tour, an Australia XI made 721 runs in a day against Essex at South Church Park.
India's previous top score in women's Tests was 467 – against England at Taunton in 2002.