:QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Harmanpreet Kaur · India captain · Lord's · 13 July 2026] 142 years. That number keeps coming back to me. Lord's has been here since 1884, and today we are the first women to win a Test here. I hope every young girl watching knows that this ground belongs to them too. :INFO The match that changed everything Lord's Cricket Ground hosted its very first women's Test match from 10 to 13 July 2026. India won by 270 runs, one of the biggest margins in women's Test history. In four days the game delivered its first women's Lord's centurion, its first women's five-wicket haul on the Honours Board, and a moment that 142 years of tradition had been waiting for. :COUNTER 270 runs: India's winning margin, the fourth-largest victory in the history of women's Test cricket :STATS :NOTE.half Yastika Bhatia, 113 Wicketkeeper-batter. The first woman ever to score a Test century at Lord's. She struck 14 fours, reached her ton from 145 balls with a drive through extra cover, and her 113 is the highest innings by an Indian women's keeper in Test history. Second keeper-batter ton in women's international cricket since Anju Jain's 110 in 1995. | :NOTE.half Kranti Gaud, 5 for 37 Seam bowler. The first woman to claim a five-wicket haul in a Test at Lord's and the first woman on the Lord's bowling Honours Board. Her figures of 5/37 dismantled England's first innings for 170, giving India a lead of 115 runs. She finished the match with 7 wickets for 91 runs, the second-best match figures by a woman in England. :STATS :NOTE The Lord's Honours Board The Honours Board inside the Lord's Pavilion records every Test centurion and every Test bowler to take five wickets on the ground. After 142 years the names listed were all men. On 11 July 2026, Kranti Gaud's 5/37 changed that. On 12 July, Yastika Bhatia's 113 joined her. Sophie Ecclestone's 5/118 also earned her a place as the first Englishwoman on the board. Three women. Three names. One match. The board in the Pavilion will never look the same. :NOTE Why this match almost did not happen Women's Test cricket has historically been starved of fixtures. India had not played a women's Test in England since 2014. The match was scheduled only after a sustained campaign by players and administrators following India's ICC Women's T20 World Cup exit in June 2026. Lord's ground authorities confirmed after the match they would lobby the ECB and BCCI to schedule a women's Test at the ground every two years from 2028. :NOTE India's response to the T20 exit India had failed to reach the knockout stage of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup held in Sri Lanka in June 2026, a result that drew criticism at home. The team travelled to England under pressure. Their response was to play four days of technically precise, disciplined Test cricket that neutrals called the best women's Test in years. The victory did not erase the T20 frustration but it reframed the narrative entirely. :LINK https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-women-tour-in-england-2026-1496532/england-women-vs-india-women-only-test-1496551/match-report Full match report: India vs England, Lord's 2026, ESPNCricinfo :LINK https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/7/13/india-thrash-england-in-historic-first-womens-cricket-test-match-at-lords India thrash England in historic first women's Test at Lord's, Al Jazeera