Radha Yadav, part of India’s triumphant 2025 ODI World Cup squad, hit her maiden first-class hundred in the Senior Women’s Inter Zonal Multi-Day Trophy semifinal.
Radha Yadav scores maiden first-class ton and picks up three wickets in Inter Zonal Multi-Day Trophy semifinal
Playing for West Zone, who batted first in the three-day match in Puducherry, Radha scored 108 off 132 in an innings laced with 17 boundaries. Tejal Hasabnis also hit a ton to take West Zone to 421. The all-rounder then picked up three wickets in East Zone’s first innings to help her side take a crucial 215-run lead.
Both West Zone openers, Humaira Kazi and Vrushali Bhagat were back in the pavilion by the sixth over with just 15 runs on the board. Hasabnis (105) and Tejaswani Batwal (35) rescued the innings, adding 70 runs cautiously for the third wicket before the latter fell.
Hasabnis had another important partnership of 120 runs with Umeshwari Jethva (51), during which the former completed her ton, before the two fell in quick succession, bringing Radha out in the middle. The all-rounder, also captaining West Zone in the tournament, batted with the lower order to take her side’s total past 400 while also completing her maiden first-class ton.
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She added 104 runs for the seventh wicket with Anuja Patil and another 42 with Sayali Satghare for the eighth. West Zone declared at 421, before bowling out East Zone for 206 on the last day. Radha picked up three wickets with her left-arm spin, while Krutikaben Chaudhari took 4-39 with her right-arm pace.
South Zone and North Zone are playing the other semifinal, with the latter managing a slender 20-run first-innings lead, largely thanks to Tanisha Singh’s century and a seven-wicket haul from Preeti Bose. The final is scheduled to start on April 1 in Puducherry and will be a four-day affair.
Radha had recently helped West Zone to the One-Day Trophy title. She put on 174 runs with No.8 Shweta Mane, while scoring 92 herself, in the final against Central Zone, breaking the record for the highest partnership for the seventh wicket or lower in women's List A cricket in India and the second-highest anywhere in the world.
The all-rounder's only other century in professional cricket came in the List A format, 106 not out against South Zone in the 2023-24 Inter-Zonal One-Day Trophy.
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