SA captain Laura Wolvaardt created a unique record by scoring a century against India, becoming the first cricketer in the world to do so

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Tezzbuzz|01-07-2024

India Women vs South Africa Women Test: South Africa women's cricket team captain Laura Wolvaardt created history by scoring a brilliant century in the second innings of the only Test match being played against India at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Making a brilliant comeback in the follow-on, Wolvaardt scored 122 runs in 314 balls with the help of 16 fours. This is her first century in this format.

In the first innings, Wolvaardt scored 20 runs from 36 balls.

With this century, Wolvaardt made a special record. She became the first player from South Africa and the second player in the world to score a century in all three formats. Before her, only England's Heather Knight and Tammy Beaumont had achieved this feat.

Let us tell you that Wolvaardt has scored eight centuries in ODIs and one century in T20 Internationals.

Apart from this, Wolvaardt has become the first female cricketer in the world to score a century in Test, ODI and T-20 International in the same year.

Wolvaardt's performance was excellent in the three ODI series that took place before this series. She scored 200 runs in three innings at an average of 100, which included a century.

It is worth noting that in this match, India decided to bat first and declared the first innings at 603 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. In response, South Africa was all out for 266 runs, then after getting the follow-on, the visiting team made a great comeback in the second innings.

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