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Openers Shafali Varma: It has been a historic day for the Women’s test as Team India-W have started with a dominant performance on Day 1 of the one-off Test against South Africa-W at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium. The team ended the day with 525 runs scored at the loss of just four wickets on the back of an amazing batting performance by Shafali Varma and Smriti Mandhana.

The Indian team has broken the record of most runs scored on a single day with the previous best being 431 in a day.

“Really happy that the day went really well for the team. Brilliant to watch Shafali from the other end, hitting those massive sixes. Always enjoyed batting alongside her and really special to watch that sort of innings from the non-striker's end. To get more than 500, is a remarkable achievement,” said Mandhana in the post-game interview.