Overview
- Shafali Verma played her 100th Women’s T20I in the second match at Kingsmead, Durban, where she top-scored with 57.
- At 22 years and 81 days, she is the youngest Indian to reach 100 T20Is, surpassing Jemimah Rodrigues’s mark of 23 years and 327 days.
- Globally, only Rwanda’s Gisele Ishimwe and Henriette Ishimwe reached 100 T20Is at a younger age.
- She is the fifth Indian woman to reach 100 T20Is, joining Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma and Jemimah Rodrigues.
- Chloe Tryon’s 3 for 22 and Tumi Sekhukhune’s 3 for 31 on a variable Kingsmead pitch limited India to 147, giving South Africa a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.