On this day (9 November) 2019, Shefali Verma the explosive opening batsman of the Indian women’s cricket team, made a special record in her name. Let us tell you that on this day that year, Shefali scored a half-century in international cricket at the age of just 15 years and 285 days and broke Sachin Tendulkar‘s record. With this, she became the first cricketer to score a half-century at the youngest age in world cricket.
Shefali’s World Record of Scoring Half-century
The young batsman broke the 30-year-old record of former Indian cricketer and God of Sports, Sachin Tendulkar. Before Shefali, Sachin scored a half-century against Pakistan in 1989 at the age of 16 years and 214 days. But Shafali also left Sachin behind in the year 2019, and the cricketer achieved this record in her 5th T20 International match.
In the year 2019, the Indian women’s cricket team was on a tour of West Indies for three ODIs and a five-match T20I series. Shefali Verma, who had made her debut for Team India some time back, was also included in this tour. In a match played during the T20 series, Shafali batted brilliantly and played a brilliant innings of 73 runs in 49 balls.
Shefali Verma’s cricket career so far
If we give you information about Shafali Verma’s cricket career, then she has played a total of 85 T20 matches for the Indian women’s cricket team so far. During this, a total of 2045 runs have come from the cricketer’s bat at an average of 25.56 and a strike rate of 129.10. Apart from this, Shefali, born in Rohtak, Haryana, also has 10 half-centuries in T20 cricket.
She has also played 29 ODIs and five Test matches for the Indian team. In ODIs, Shefali has scored a total of 644 runs at an average of 23 and a strike rate of 83.20 and 567 runs in Tests at an average of 63. In Test cricket, Shefali has also played an innings of 205 runs.
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