Women's T20 World Cup: Laxman, Sehwag hail Shafali's exploits

NEW DELHI: The 16-year-old

Shafali Verma

has taken the ongoing

Women's T20 World Cup

by storm. She has scored 161 runs and is second in the highest run scorer list for the tournament behind England captain Heather Knight but her astonishing strike rate of 161 is far higher than any batters in the top five of the list.


Former batsman VVS Laxman and his former teammate Virender Sehwag both hailed the youngster on Twitter as also Radha Yadav's bowling performance as the spinner took her career-best figures of 4/23 in India's recent win over Sri Lanka on Saturday. The win was India's fourth consecutive win of the tournament and took them to the top of the Group A table.

"4 wins in 4 matches and the girls giving plenty to cheer about. Radha Yadav was outstanding with the ball and Shafali Verma continued her dream run. Wishing @BCCIWomen the very best for the semis #INDvSL," said Laxman.


"Hamari ladkiyon mein bahut Dum hai. Shafali Verma was brilliant again and Radha Yadav bowled a match winning spell. Congratulations @BCCIWomen. Best wishes for the semi-finals #IndvSL," said Sehwag.


India thus will go to the semi-finals as winners of Group A. Shafali is yet to score a fifty in the tournament but has scored 29 from 15 balls, 39 from 17 balls, 46 from 34 balls and 47 from 34 balls in the four group matches respectively.