On this day (9 November) 2019, Indian women’s cricket team’s explosive opening batsman Shafali Verma had made a special record in her name. Let us tell you that on this day that year, Shefali had scored a half-century in international cricket at the age of only 15 years and 285 days. With this, she became the first cricketer to score a half-century at the youngest age in world cricket.

The young batsman had broken the 30-year-old record of former Indian cricketer and God of Sports Sachin Tendulkar. Before Shefali, Sachin had scored a half-century against Pakistan in the year 1989 at the age of 16 years and 214 days. But Shefali had also left Sachin behind in the year 2019, and the cricketer achieved this record in his 5th T20 International match.

In the year 2019, the Indian women’s cricket team was on West Indies tour for three ODI and five-match T20I series. Shefali Verma, who had debuted for Team India some time ago, was also included in this round. In a match played during the T20 series, Shefali batted brilliantly and played an excellent inning of 73 runs in 49 balls.

A look at Shafali Verma’s cricket career

So if we give you information about Shefali Verma’s cricket career, she has played a total of 85 T20 matches for the Indian women’s cricket team so far. During this period, a total of 2045 runs have been scored from the cricketer’s bat at an average of 25.56 and strike rate of 129.10. Apart from this, Shefali, born in Rohtak, Haryana, also has 10 half-centuries in her name in T20 cricket.

Apart from this, he has also played 29 ODI and five test matches for the Indian team. In ODIs, Shefali has scored a total of 644 runs at an average of 23 and strike rate of 83.20 and in Tests, Shefali has scored 567 runs at an average of 63. Shefali has also played an innings of 205 runs in Test cricket.