This win also represents India’s fourth Test victory at the historic Lord’s in both men’s and women’s cricket, following notable wins by the men’s team led by Kapil Dev (1986), MS Dhoni (2014), and Virat Kohli (2021).
Runs galore at Lord’s
India’s strength was evident on the scoreboard, with a total of 626 runs (285 and 341/7 declared), the second-highest match aggregate in the history of India’s women’s Test squad. Only their score of 640 against South Africa in Chennai in 2024 is higher.
The declaration of 341 for seven in their second innings marked just the second occasion that India women surpassed 300 runs in their second innings of a Test.
Latest entrants in the honours board
Yastika Bhatia made history with an outstanding 113, becoming the first Indian woman to score a century in the third or fourth innings of a Test match. She is also the second designated Indian wicketkeeper to notch a Test hundred after Anju Jain, joining Sourav Ganguly as the only left-handed Indian to hit a Test century at Lord’s.
Debutant fast bowler Kranti Gaud had a remarkable match, achieving figures of 5 for 37 in the first innings, making her the fifth Indian seamer to take a five-wicket haul in Women’s Tests. Her overall figures of 7 for 91 rank as the third-best by an Indian pace bowler in this format.
Smriti Mandhana marked her 300th international appearance with flair, becoming the youngest woman to reach this milestone in international cricket. The opener scored 83 and 70, making her one of only four Indian women to record fifty-plus scores in both innings of a Test.
Mandhana now holds the second spot on India’s all-time women’s Test run-scorers list with 788 runs, only behind Sandhya Agarwal. Her total of 92 international scores of fifty or more places her just one behind Mithali Raj’s record for India.
Small wins in a crushing loss for England
Despite the heavy defeat, England found some positives in Sophie Ecclestone and Amy Jones.
Ecclestone’s five-wicket haul in India’s second innings was her fourth in Tests, bringing her total to 343 international wickets across formats, marking her as the third-highest wicket-taker in women’s cricket. She also made a valiant half-century in the fourth innings, becoming just the second player to score a fifty while batting at No. 8 or lower in the final innings of a Women’s Test.
Jones made history as the first designated wicketkeeper in Women’s Test history to score half-centuries in both innings of a match, with scores of 52 and 54. She is also only the second wicketkeeper to emerge as her team’s top scorer in both innings of a women’s Test.
In total, the wicketkeepers from both teams collaborated for 231 runs during the match, establishing a new record for the highest aggregate of runs by designated wicketkeepers in a women’s Test.
Following a disappointing T20 World Cup campaign where the Indian side did not progress to the semi-finals, this result serves as a fitting conclusion to the English summer for them.
First Published: Jul 13, 2026 7:11 PM IST
