India Women (IND-W) vs Australia Women (AUS-W) 1st ODI Live Cricket Score Updates: Beth Mooney struck a classy 76 and Alyssa Healy also scored a solid half century as Australia made the run-chase of 215 look easy, winning first ODI by six wickets with 70 balls remaining at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane on Tuesday. Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur hit half centuries while Kashvee Gautam played a lovely hand lower down the order but it was tough going for Indian batters. Pratika Rawal and Shafali Verma fell early while Jemimah Rodrigues also followed shortly. Mandhana then fell soon after getting to her half century and India struggled for momentum through the middle overs. Harmanpreet and Kashvee’s partnership for the 8th wicket managed to eventually push India past 200, and they finished on 214 all out in 48.3 overs. Ash Gardner picked up three wickets for Australia while Alana King, despite picking just one, was hard to put away for India’s batters.
The multi-format series is level at 4-4 with two wins for each teams so far, with two ODIs and one Test to follow.
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Earlier, Harmanpreet Kaur opted to bat first in India’s first match after their World Cup triumph in November. After defeating Australia 2-1 in the T20I leg, India had taken a 4-2 lead (in points) in the multi-format series after winning the first and the third matchess. The Harmanpreet-led side won the rain-affected first T20I by 21 runs in Sydney before the hosts, led by a new face in Sophie Molineux, struck back in the second game in Canberra to level the series at 1-1. It was Smriti Mandhana’s classy 82 that helped India beat Australia by 17 runs in Adelaide. Read more about India’s T20I series win here.
AUS-W vs IND-W Playing XIs
INDIA XI: Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Shafali Verma, Harmanpreet Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh, Deepti Sharma, Kashvee Gautam, Sree Charani, Kranti Gaud, Renuka Singh Thakur
AUSTRALIA XI: Alyssa Healy, Phoebe Litchfireld, Georgia Voll, Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Ash Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Sophie Molineux, Alana King, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown
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India vice-captain Smriti Mandhana in action. (Photo: BCCI/X)
Not since 2016 had India won a women’s bilateral series in Australia. And not since 2017 had Australia lost a bilateral assignment at home. Harmanpreet Kaur and Co achieved both those milestones on Saturday at the Adelaide Oval with an impressive all-round performance as they beat the world No 1 in their own backyard to clinch the T20I leg of the multi-format series 2-1. There were no trophies handed out after the match on Saturday (there are points for wins in each of the three formats to decide the overall winner at the end of the Test match in Perth), but this first leg of India’s tour Down Under was the most important, given the T20 World Cup a few months away. Which makes India’s achievement a strong statement – the ODI World Champions are gunning for the 20-over title too. (READ MORE)
