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Mithali Raj
Records the highest individual score in Women's Test cricket.
 

Hyderabad's 19-year-old vice-captain Mithali Raj rewrote record books when she scored the highest individual score in women's Test cricket to guide the Indian eves to a mammoth total.

In the second and final Test against England,during the marathon innings, she faced 407 balls and hit 19 boundaries. Her double century is the fifth in the history of women's Test cricket and it bettered Australian K. L. Rolton's unbeaten 209 against England at Leeds last year.


 
Mithali playing only her third Test innings dominated the proceedings through out the day and scoring a mammoth 214.During her marathon knock She also shared two century partnerships - a 144-run stand for the fourth wicket with Hemalata Kala (62) and then an unbroken seventh wicket stand of 148 with Jhulan - to guide India to a mammoth total.

This is, however, not the first time an Indian has held this record.
When Sandhya Agarwal made 190 in the third Test against England at Manchester in 1986, it was a moment deserving of celebration in India. The highest score in women's Test cricket had just been scored by an Indian, beating the 189 made by Betty Snowball.

Beginning to play serious cricket when she was just nine, when her father started to coach her, Mithali constantly played her cricket against women both older and more accomplished than her.

MK
-August 2002

VVS Laxman
 "Incidentally Hyderabad's VVS Laxman has to his credit the highest runs in Indian Test history".

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