• When an Indian cricket fan moved to New York in 2003 she “Googled” the USA Women’s Cricket Association, a move that saw her later representing the United States. After clicking on to the association’s website, Anahita Arora replied to a plea for female cricketers to turn up for selection trials. She went along, made the cut and ended up opening the bowling for the United States in the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier 50-over tournament in Bangladesh.
• In a one-day international at the MCG in 2013/14, numbers four and five from both sides all scored an unbeaten half-century. A first in all international cricket, Australia’s Alex Blackwell made 82 not out and Ellyse Perry 65 in an unbeaten fourth-wicket stand of 141 after the pair had come together at 68/3. For England, Lydia Greenway (69*) and Arran Brindle (64*) also joined forces at 68/3, going one run better with an unbeaten fourth-wicket partnership of 142.
• Mandy Kornet appeared in 15 one-day internationals for the Netherlands during the 2000s, making a duck in her final seven matches. After scoring 15 runs in her first five ODIs, she then had scores of 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0.
• In a World Cup match at Sittingbourne in 1973, opposing bowlers took four wickets for less than ten on their debuts. England’s Glynis Hullah snapped up 4-8, while Jamaica’s Madge Stewart took 4-9.
• After being run out for 88 at the top of the order in a World Cup match at Wanganui in 1981/82, India’s Fowzieh Khalili picked up five dismissals with three stumpings. She became the first, and to date only, wicketkeeper to achieve the double of a fifty and five dismissals in the same women’s one-day international.
• Australia’s Jill Kennare made the record books in 1984/85 when she scored one-day international centuries on consecutive days. She struck a match-winning 122 against England at the Aberfeldie Park ground in Melbourne and then made an unbeaten 100 against the same opposition at the same ground the following day.
The next player to achieve the feat of consecutive ODI hundreds was New Zealand’s Debbie Hockley who made two scores of 100 – 100 not out against Sri Lanka and 100 against the West Indies, both times at Chandigarh, over three days in the 1997/98 World Cup.
• The youngest female to appear in a one-day international destroyed a Japan XI at Amsterdam in 2003 with career-best figures of 7-4. Pakistan’s Sajjida Shah – who made her ODI debut at the age of 12 in the year 2000 – was one of five bowlers used to extinguish Japan for 28 in 34 overs, a total bloated by 20 extras. Her team-mate Khursheed Jabeen returned the extraordinary figures of 10-8-2-3 with an economy rate of 0.20.
• On their way to a massive 233-run loss to South Africa at Savar in Bangladesh in 2011/12, the Netherlands fell apart for 36 with the only instance of a pair of bowlers bowling unchanged in a completed women’s one-day international. Shabnim Ismail took 6-10 off 8.3 overs, while Moseline Daniels took 4-25 off eight.
• The New Zealand women’s cricket team copped a hiding in their maiden Test match, sustaining the biggest-ever innings loss on record. After falling for 44 at the hands of England at Lancaster Park in Christchurch in 1934/35, the tourists responded with 503/5 declared, with centuries from wicketkeeper Betty Snowball (189) and Molly Hide (110). New Zealand managed 122 in their second innings, going down by an innings and 337 runs.
• In a 2005 Women’s World Cup match in Pretoria, Sri Lanka suffered a 214-run defeat after a total of 70 in which no batter reached double figures. Chasing England’s 284, more than half of the Sri Lankan total was made up of extras, with a whopping 38 wides and one leg bye.
• West Indies all-rounder Stefanie Taylor made history in 2013 when she was ranked the No. 1 batter and bowler in one-day international cricket. The then-22-year-old became the first-ever player – man or woman – to head both the batting and bowling rankings at the same time.
• Australia’s numbers ten and 11 staged a rescue mission against England at Hove in 2005, raising the first last-wicket century stand in women’s Test cricket. Debutants Shelly Nitschke (81*) and Clea Smith (42) shared a record 119-run partnership that took Australia to 355. The opening pair of Lisa Keightley (11 and 0) and Belinda Clark (0 and 0) had stands of nought and nought.
• While playing league cricket in England in 2008, Australia’s Alex Blackwell was called on to assist in the aid of an 80-year-old man who’d collapsed in the stands. An appeal was sent out at the ground for anyone with medical experience and the former medical student was eager to help: “Myself and another player, Louise, rushed over and immediately knew this man was in a great deal of trouble. With no breathing and absent pulse, we had to commence CPR. Louise was on compressions while I was delivering mouth-to-mouth. We continued CPR for nine minutes, and to be honest, I thought we had lost him, but we just kept going until paramedics arrived and were ready with the defibrillator.”
• Australia’s youngest-ever Test cricketer went where no woman had ever been before in 2010 by playing with the men. Ellyse Perry became the first female to play grade cricket in Sydney, opening the bowling on her debut against Blacktown in an under-21s match in 2010/11. The then-20-year-old played a winning role for the Sydney club, taking 2-14 and scoring five not out: “It was pretty much the same as every Sunday. The only difference was there were ten big, brute boys out there.”
Her first victim was an English import, Joe Robbins: “I’m happy to go down in history. You’ve got to give her respect – she’s playing here on merit. When she’s running in, you don’t think to yourself it’s a girl bowling. She was the best out of the four seamers. She was hard to face.”
• Ireland tasted immediate success at its first outing in Test cricket, attaining a crushing innings victory over Pakistan. The match, played in Dublin in 2000, was all over in two days, with Ireland (193/3d) blowing away the tourists for totals of 53 and 86. Isobel Joyce was named player of the match with second-innings bowling figures of 6-21.
• In a one-day international against Pakistan in Colombo in 2001/02, Sri Lanka’s captain Suthershini Sivanantham led her country to a 104-run victory with the best batting and bowling figures in the match. She top-scored with 36 batting at No. 7 and then bowled her side to glory with the record-breaking figures of 5-2 with seven maidens.
• During the Netherlands-South Africa Test match at Rotterdam in 2007, two debutants were dismissed for a pair. The Dutch pair of Annemarie Tanke and Jolet Hartenhof both made two ducks in their only Test match appearance, with the former run out in each innings.
• All tickets for women’s cricket matches at the 2010 Asian Games in the Chinese city of Guangzhou sold out within two days. With cricket included for the first time at the Games, a 12,000-seat stadium was purpose-built for the event. Hosts China (116/6) won the opening match of the Twenty20-style format, downing Malaysia (61/8) thanks to a 47-run effort from their No. 10 Sun Haun and a haul of 3-8 from Mei Chunhau.
Pakistan went on to win the gold medal by defeating Bangladesh in the final, with its captain Sana Mir full of praise for the exposure the tournament gave to women’s cricket: “We never get this kind of media coverage back at home. I am just so glad the sport made it to the Asian Games. There is always TV coverage when the men’s cricket team plays in Pakistan because it is huge, but you never see us playing on big screens or TVs.”
• Warwickshire captain Ian Westwood was moved to issue an apology in 2009 after bagging women’s cricket during a club function. He labelled it “pointless and a waste of time”, adding he would only attend a women’s match if the players wore short skirts.
• Appearing in her first match as England captain, Arran Thompson put Scotland to the sword with the newcomers falling for 24 and sustaining a 238-run defeat. None of the batters reached double figures in the match at Reading in 2001, with Laura Harper snaring 4-5. Aged 19 years and 260 days, Thompson became the first teenager – male or female – to captain a one-day international.
• After a history-making double-century on her Test debut, Australia’s Michelle Goszko was unable to reach double figures in her remaining three matches. With 204 in her first Test, against England at Shenley, in 2001, Goszko made two consecutive ducks, then innings of four and nine for a career average of 43.40.
As a 17-year-old in 1994/95, Goszko, a right-arm medium-pace bowler, had taken 6-9 on her debut for the New South Wales Under-21s.
• New South Wales kick-started the 2010/11 national 50-over competition in record-breaking style, falling five runs short of 400. Batting against Tasmania (160) at North Sydney Oval, the NSW Breakers raced to 395/5, with a record 157 from opener Alex Blackwell: “As a team, never once have we ever spoken about making 400 runs before, but by the end, we were aiming for 400. All the way through our innings we had our goals … in the end we fell just short.”
• Australian Test players Alex Blackwell and Rachael Haynes got the 2013/14 season off to a flying start with a triple-century opening stand in a Sydney club match. The two put on 387 for Universities against Northern Districts, with Blackwell hitting 223 and Haynes 168.
• In the third match of the 1973 Women’s World Cup, two of the debutants blossomed with centuries. England’s Enid Bakewell (101*) and Lynn Thomas (134*) began their careers with a 246-run opening partnership in the match, against an International XI at Brighton.
In 1999, an Indian pair reproduced the feat in a ODI against Ireland at Milton Keynes. Opening up for the Indians, debutants Reshma Gandhi (104*) and Mithali Raj (114*) put on a match-winning stand of 258, the highest unbroken partnership in a women’s one-day international.
• The West Indies extracted a memorable Twenty20 win over South Africa at Paarl in 2009/10 after just one of their batters reached double figures. Brought undone for 97 in the final over, opener Deandra Dottin was the only one to pass ten, going on to 52 off 36 balls, with South Africa then making 95/6.
• England downed South Africa in a women’s one-day international in 2011/12 on the back of two maiden centuries and a record double-century partnership. Lydia Greenway, with an unbeaten 125, and Arran Brindle, with 107 not out, shared an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 218 in the match at Potchefstroom.
• After Nance Clements had made her Victorian debut against the visiting English team in 1934/35, she requested, as a souvenir, the MCG scoreboard banner that displayed her name. Clements was granted her request and later discovered the name of a famous England bowler – Harold Larwood – painted on the reverse side. Ground authorities had re-used banners from an MCG match during the 1932/33 Bodyline series.
• When New Zealand hosted England in the third Test at Auckland in 1968/69, a record number of players were stumped. Both wicketkeepers – NZ’s Bev Bretnall and England’s Shirley Hodges – achieved five dismissals in an innings, with a match total of seven stumpings overtaking the previous mark of six, established in the previous Test at Christchurch.
• New Zealand’s Emily Drumm made history in 1996 by scoring centuries in her final two Tests. In her last match, Drumm hit 62 and an unbeaten 112 against England at Guildford, having scored 161 and 62 – both times unbeaten – in her final Test at home, against Australia at Christchurch in 1994/95. In her five Tests, Drumm scored 433 runs at an average of 144.33.
• After a pair of single-digit scores in her previous Test, New Zealand’s Vera Robinson was brought back 20 years later for one more go at the highest level. With innings of two and four against England at Auckland in 1948/49, Robinson was resurrected for the first Test against England in 1968/69, a record break of 19 years and 323 days.
• Despite becoming the first Australian, man or woman, to take a five-wicket haul in a Twenty20 international, Julie Hunter was unable to win the player-of-the-match award. The Victorian medium-pacer took a match-winning 5-22 in a semi-final against the West Indies at the 2012 World Twenty20, with the gong going to Ellyse Perry for her 2-19, a run out and a catch.
• During the ICC Women’s Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in 2013, Sri Lanka beat Japan inside two overs. After dismissing Japan in the match in Dublin for 21, the Sri Lankan openers hit the required 22 runs in 1.4 overs.
• In 2010, Rachael Heyhoe-Flint became the first female cricketer to be inducted into the International Cricket Council’s Hall of Fame. She appeared in 22 Test matches, captaining England to victory in the 1973 Women’s World Cup.
• A 13-year-old girl called up at the last minute to play for a men’s team in Australia in 2010/11 took a hat-trick with the first three balls she bowled. Playing for Kingaroy Services, Holly Ferling (4-8) – a member of the under-15 Queensland women’s side – also took a wicket with her fifth ball in the match, against South Burnett Warriors.
The first female named Queensland Junior Cricketer of the Year, Ferling made her debut for Australia in 2012/13 at the age of 17, and took 2-10 against India in a Women’s World Cup match at Cuttack.
• The South African side Kei had a tough time during the country’s 50-over Provincial League in 2010/11, failing to reach 40 in their six innings. In a match against Eastern Province, Kei were dismissed for 30 chasing 494-4, and suffered a 533-run loss in their next match, against Boland.
Throughout the competition, Kei’s highest total was 36 – in their last match – which featured a score of ten by Nandi Maya, the only batter to reach double figures in any of the games. A total of 28 ducks was recorded by the team in the series, with seven in a match against Western Province.
• In her final Test match for Australia, Margaret Jennings uniquely captained the side as well as opening the batting and keeping wicket. With scores of 15 and 57 and two dismissals against India in Perth in 1976/77, Jennings led her side to a 147-run victory.
Coincidentally, Jennings also captained, kept and opened in her final one-day international. In her farewell innings, she repeated her final Test match score with an unbeaten 57, and achieved three dismissals in an eight-wicket victory over England at Hyderabad in 1977/78.
• The fashion designer regarded as the creator of the miniskirt and hotpants is a major cricket fan who regards being out first ball one of the worst things in life. Britain’s Woman of the Year in 1963, Mary Quant played the game while at school in Kent: “Our games mistress was a horror. She made us go and pull up nettles in the long grass as punishment when we were out.”
• A British women’s cricket team racked up one of the highest totals of all time in the 50-over game in 2011 with three of its batters scoring centuries. The Loughton Ladies XI hit 521/3 against Leeds & Broomfield (86), with rapid unbeaten hundreds from Lauren Onojaife, Beth Wild and Laura Owen.
Onojaife (101*), who had just returned from a stint playing club cricket in Australia, reached her ton off just 42 balls, which included 16 fours and two sixes. She retired on 101, as did Wild.
• The two highest innings in women’s one-day international cricket were both scored on the same day. On 16 December 1997, Australia’s Belinda Clark pre-empted Sachin Tendulkar by hitting a ODI double-century – 229 not out – against Denmark at Mumbai in the World Cup, while England’s Charlotte Edwards smashed an unbeaten 173 against Ireland at Poona. On both occasions, each player outscored the opposition on their own, with Denmark dismissed for 49 and Ireland for 116.
• Appearing in her first Test match on home soil, Rene Farrell took four wickets in five balls, including a hat-trick, in the 2010/11 Ashes Test in Sydney. With figures of 5-23 in just her second Test, Farrell became only the third player – after Australia’s Betty Wilson in 1957/58 and Pakistan’s Shaiza Khan in 2003/04 – to take a hat-trick in a women’s Test match.
• India’s Neetu David marked the 100th women’s Test match by returning her best-ever figures of 8-53. It was a bittersweet moment for David, who supplied the first instance of a female bowler taking eight wickets in a Test innings only to end up on the losing side. England won the historic match at Jamshedpur in 1995/96 by the slender margin of two runs.
• In 1997/98, Sri Lanka’s Chamani Seneviratna became the first female to score a century and claim a five-wicket haul on her Test debut. After taking 5-31 against Pakistan at Colombo, the 19-year-old then struck an unbeaten 105 batting at No. 8. Seneviratna became only the fourth female to achieve the all-round feat, and the first since England’s Enid Bakewell in 1979.
• After losing its first six wickets for single-figure scores in a one-day international at Taunton in 2012, the Indian women’s team ended up winning the match. Seemingly down-and-out at 34/6 batting first, India rallied to 129 off their 50 overs and then bowled out England for 115. In the fourth match of the series at Truro, India didn’t score their first run until the fourth ball of the fourth over then lost their first wicket off the next ball.
• England medium-pacer Anya Shrubsole starred in her country’s opening match of their 2011/12 tour of New Zealand by taking 5-5 in a 50-over match. Opening the bowling against a New Zealand Emerging Players XI (111) at Lincoln, she took her 5-5 off 5.1 overs with all of her victims dismissed for scores under ten. A few days later at Wellington, she picked up 5-11, her country’s first five-for in women’s Twenty20 internationals.
• West Indies off-spinner Anisa Mohammed dominated Pakistan in 2011, taking four five-fours in one-day internationals during a three-month period. After sensational figures of 10-6-5-5 at Kingstown in St Vincent, she then returned 10-5-7-5 in game two of the series at the same ground two days later. In the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier tournament, Mohammed took 5-26 at Savar and a West Indies-record 7-14 at Dhaka.
Mohammed had made her one-day international debut at the age of 14, in a match against Japan in 2003. She sent down ten overs, with six maidens, taking 1-4.
• Australian slow bowler Marie Lutschini appeared in nine Tests, with her first three wickets all coming via stumpings in the first innings of her debut. In the first Test against the West Indies at Montego Bay in 1975/76, the first three batters to fall were all stumped by Margaret Jennings off Lutschini, who finished her first innings with 4-48. Vivalyn Latty-Scott, who made her debut for the West Indies in the same match, took 5-48 with 17 maidens off 41 overs, in Australia’s only innings.
• The opening match of the 2010 Women’s World Twenty20 kicked off in record-breaking fashion with one player scoring the fastest century of all time and another taking a wicket with her first ball in international cricket. Deandra Dottin made history by becoming the first female to score a Twenty20 international century, smashing a 45-ball unbeaten 112 in the match against South Africa at Basseterre. She reached her 50 off 25 balls in 25 minutes, and blasted her way to the hundred-mark off 38 balls in 37 minutes. South Africa’s only debutant in the match, 16-year-old left-arm medium-pace bowler Chloe Tryon, took a wicket with her first delivery and finished up with 2-28 off three overs.
• England introduced one of their youngest-ever debutants in 2001, a player with one of the longest, and most colourful, of names. Ebony-Jewel Cora-Lee Camellia Rosamond Rainford-Brent was 17 when she made her one-day international debut against the Netherlands at Reading, taking 1-8 in four overs: “I was a bit concerned my name wasn’t going to fit on the shirt.”
• In her final one-day international, against Denmark at Delhi in 1997/98, the West Indies’ Carol-Ann James was left stranded one run shy of what would been a maiden century. In her only other ODI against Denmark – at Beckenham in the 1993 World Cup – James sent down a competition-record 11 maidens in her 12-over spell. Chasing 121 for victory, Denmark fell for 76, with James returning figures of 12-11-4-1.
• Australia smothered the West Indies in a one-day international series in 2014/15 with Ellyse Perry scoring a fifty in each of the four matches. Her scores of 53, 72, 64 not out and 74 not out followed an unbeaten 90 against England at Hobart in 2013/14. West Indies opener Hayley Matthews also scored half-centuries (55, 89, 60) in the first three matches. After a 4-0 win in the Twenty20 international series, Australia then wrapped up the ODI series 4-0.
• England’s Arran Brindle, who made her Test debut in 2001, made history by scoring a century in a men’s premier league match in 2011. Brindle struck 128 for Louth versus Market Deeping in the Lincolnshire League: “I have played for Louth men’s first XI for several years now, and I captained the side in 2007, 2009 and 2010. It’s a totally natural environment for me.”
• Sri Lanka opened their 2013 World Cup campaign with a bang, securing a nail-biting win over England at Mumbai. They won by one wicket off the last ball of the match, both firsts in women’s World Cup cricket. Their total of 244 was also the highest batting second in the competition, while their five sixes, including one off the final ball of the match, was a first in any World Cup game against England.
• When Ireland’s Gaby Lewis took to the field in a Twenty20 match against South Africa in 2014, she became the first cricketer born in the 21st century to appear in an international cricket match. The daughter of Alan Lewis, who appeared in eight first-class matches for Ireland, and granddaughter of Ian, who played in five, Gaby made her debut at the age of 13 years and 166 days.
• After scoring a half-century in a one-day international in 2003/04, Anju Jain made four stumpings. Jain scored 67 and figured in a 152-run opening stand in the match, against the West Indies in Dhanbad. In 2005/06, her namesake Karu Jain achieved a record-equalling five stumpings in a ODI – and also opened the batting – against New Zealand in Lincoln. Compatriot Venkatacher Kalpana was the first to obtain five stumpings in a one-day international, against Denmark at Slough in the 1993 World Cup. She, too, opened the batting.
• When the West Indies women played their inaugural Test match, half of the line-up was aged over 35. The Test, against Pakistan at Karachi in 2003/04, featured a near-47-year-old Stephanie Power, a 41-year-old Envis Williams, Verena Felicien, aged 39, Jacqueline Robinson, 38, Felicia Cummings, 36, and Nadine George, 35. For each player, this was their only Test appearance.
• A 20-year-old member of the Lancashire women’s cricket team made history in 2013 when she became the first female in over 100 years to appear in a league competition. On her debut in the Bolton Association, Chloe Wallwork starred with 4-11 in a win for Walshaw against Golborne: “I didn’t even know I was the first girl to play first-team cricket in the league for 125 years until I read about it.”
In 2015, England Test bowler Kate Cross became the first woman to appear in the Central Lancashire League tournament. She marked the occasion with 3-19 on her debut for Heywood versus Clifton, and later took 8-47 against Unsworth. On her Test debut – against Australia at Perth in 2013/14 – Cross picked up identical hauls of 3-35 in each innings.
• While scoring her maiden Test century in 2013, Australia’s Sarah Elliott breastfed her nine-month-old baby during the lunch and tea breaks. Elliott scored 95 before stumps on the opening day of the Ashes Test at Wormsley after getting up four times to feed her son the night before. She went on to score 104 in just her second Test as did England’s Heather Knight, both of whom had made their debuts in the same match, at Bankstown in Sydney in 2010/11.
Opening the batting, Knight hit 157 off 338 balls, sharing an England-record seventh-wicket stand of 156 with Laura Marsh who brought up her maiden half-century five years after making her Test debut. Batting at No. 8, Marsh reached her fifty off 291 balls and made it to 55 off 304 in 343 minutes.
• To celebrate the 100th women’s one-day international, Australia’s Ruth Buckstein scored a maiden century of exactly 100. Her opening partner Lindsay Reeler (143*) also scored a maiden ton and shared an Australian-record first-wicket stand of 220 in the match against the Netherlands at the Willetton Sports Ground in Perth in 1988/89. With a total of 284/1 off 60 overs, scored in exactly 200 minutes, the Netherlands were blown away for 29, with both openers out for ducks and seven in all failing to get off the mark. Karen Brown, a medium-pacer from Victoria, took career-best figures of 4-4.
The Buckstein-Reeler stand beat by just one the previous best Australian partnership for the first wicket in a women’s ODI. In 1996/97, Belinda Clark (131) and Lisa Keightley (156*) put on 219 against Pakistan at a suburban ground in Melbourne, with Australia surging to 397/4 off 50 overs, which also contained a 94 from Zoe Goss, batting at No. 3. Australia gained a massive 374-run victory, after disposing of Pakistan for 23, with no batters reaching double figures.
• In its first Test in eight years, and with as many as eight debutants in its ranks, India beat England at Wormsley in 2014 in a game that featured a record number of lbw dismissals in a women’s Test match. Eight of the Indian line-up and 12 of England’s were out lbw, with a record seven in the host’s first-innings total of 92.
Although she ended up on the losing side, Jenny Gunn was named player of the match after becoming the first England woman to achieve the all-round double of a fifty and a five-wicket haul in the same Test. Gunn scored an unbeaten 62 in the second innings and also claimed 5-19, becoming only the second to do so, after Australia’s Ellyse Perry (71 and 5-38) against England at Perth earlier in the year.
• Described as one of the finest innings played by a female cricketer, England captain Charlotte Edwards saved her team from humiliation in the 2010/11 Ashes with an unbeaten century. After the first day of the Test at Sydney’s Bankstown Oval, Edwards had reached 103 not out in a team score of 181/8. She remained undefeated with 114 out of 207, scored off 310 balls in 389 minutes.
• Appearing in just her second one-day international, an 18-year-old Meg Lanning became the youngest player to score a century for Australia. Lanning, who was born in Singapore, hit an unbeaten 104 against England at the WACA in 2010/11.
After posting consecutive fifties against New Zealand two seasons later, Lanning hit the fastest ton by an Australian in a one-day international. In the third ODI at North Sydney, Lanning made 103, reaching the three figures off just 45 balls. Her knock included 18 fours and three sixes.
In 2013/14, she then became the first Australian woman to score a hundred in a Twenty20 international. Batting at three against Ireland in the Women’s World Twenty20 tournament at Sylhet, Lanning made 126 off 65 balls, hitting 18 fours and four sixes. Aged 21 years and 300 days, Lanning also became Australia’s youngest-ever captain, when she led Australia in a ODI against England at the MCG in the same season.
• Rowan Milburn appeared in a total of 15 one-day internationals, playing her first seven for the Netherlands in the calendar year of 2000 and the remaining eight for New Zealand in 2007. The Otago-born wicketkeeper made one ODI half-century, an innings of 71 for the Netherlands against Ireland in the Women’s World Cup at Christchurch in 2000/01. Her father Barry Milburn appeared in three Tests for New Zealand, also as wicketkeeper, against the West Indies in 1968/69.
• With a double-century to her credit in a 40-over match as a 12-year-old, Mignon du Preez became the first South African woman to score a century on her Test debut. Eight years after her ODI debut, a 25-year-old du Preez scored 102 in her first Test, against India at Mysore in 2014/15. Earlier in the match, Indian opener Thirush Kamini scored her maiden Test fifty in just her second appearance, reaching 192 and sharing a record second-wicket stand of 275 with Poonam Raut (130).
Kamini and Raut, who also scored her first fifty in her second appearance, provided the first instance of two Indian women hitting a Test century in the same innings.