Australia women vs. India women: After lunch, Pooja Vastrakar led India’s powerful bowling attack, costing AUSW four wickets. After scoring 77 runs and losing four wickets, AUS W reached tea at 180/8. Following lunch, Annabel Sutherland and Alyssa Healy worked together to block IND W. Deepti Sharma’s low delivery that destroyed Healy’s stumps was the game-changing moment. Pooja Vastrakar put Australia 6 down fast, breaking Annabel Sutherland’s 58-ball fight.
In the last delivery of the session, Vastrakar claimed her second wicket, sending AUS W and IND W to lunch at 103/4 on Day 1. The hosts had a terrific session, spilling and cashing in on a few occasions and chipping away to reduce AUS W to their last two wickets when she bowled Beth Mooney for forty.
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Tahlia McGrath gave AUS W hope after a challenging start against IND W with a half-century in 52 balls. Beth Mooney and McGrath fought hard to score 80 runs at 7/2. Tahlia was playing brilliantly, but after Sneh Rana hit fifty, Rajeshwari Gayakwad removed McGrath from the game and delivered her a well-earned wicket.
In the one-off women’s Test on Thursday, India took a commanding lead after Australia’s skipper, Alyssa Healy, won the toss and elected to bat. India took the lead in the first over because of a misunderstanding between Beth Mooney and Phoebe Litchfield.
Resuming her brilliant form, Pooja Vastrakar dismissed the dangerous Ellyse Perry (4) in her first over. Litchfield was out for a duck after facing zero balls. Australian ladies are receiving healing assistance from Tahlia McGrath and Beth Mooney. McGrath’s counterattack helped Australia overcome fifty in 10 overs after he was dropped at the age of eighteen.
India W. lost another opportunity by not considering Beth Mooney’s LBW petition. As soon as the ball touched the pad, Rana shoved Mooney forward to defend. India did not contest the umpire’s decision to call an out. They ought to have, since the ball tracker showed three reds.
Rana struck a maiden over the bat to initiate India’s barrage of spin. McGrath then struck Rajeshwari Gayakwad for a four to start the fifty partnership. Deepti Sharma missed another catch when she was unable to cling onto McGrath’s thick edge.
Australia granted left-arm bowler Lauren Cheatle her maiden Test cap, while India awarded wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh her first after a historic victory over England a few days earlier.
India XI for Australia women vs. India women
Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Yastika Bhatia (wk), Richa Ghosh, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Pooja Vastrakar, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Renuka Singh.
Australia XI for Australia women vs. India women
Alyssa Healy (c/wk), Beth Mooney, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Tahlia McGrath, Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Kim Garth, Lauren Cheatle.
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