Tahlia McGrath and company completely annihilated the India A squad in the three-match T20 series and registered a clean sweep 3-0. The India A squad will not aim at redemption in the three-match 50-over contest.
Sophie Molineux had claimed the Player of the T20I Series honour during Australia's recently concluded tour of Bangladesh. Molineux had bagged six wickets during the series.
Alana King got under the skin of the experienced Bangladesh leg-spinner Fahima Khatun and clobbered her for 28 runs in the final over of Australia's innings.
The 22-year-old all-rounder smashed 210 off just 256 balls to register the fourth-highest individual score in women's Test cricket history to help Australia record the biggest-ever innings total of 575/9 in red-ball cricket.
Darcie Brown finished with her best bowling figures in Test cricket. She bagged 5/21 in 9.2 overs and turned out to be the wrecker-in-chief for the Australians at the W.A.C.A in Perth.
Former South Africa captain Sune Luus requires one more five-wicket haul to equal Anisa Mohammed for the most five-fors in the women's ODI circuit. Luus has five five-fors to her credit already.
The veteran batting all-rounder Marizanne Kapp scored 75 off 48 and Chloe Tryon contributed quick 26 runs to help South Africa post a big total of 162 but in-form Beth Mooney's 82 was enough for Australia to chase the total with five wickets remaining.
After thrashing India away, Australia women's cricket made no changes to their squads for the upcoming ODI and T20I series against South Africa. Alana King remains out from the T20I team but is set to replace Grace Harris in ODIs.
Young pacer from West Bengal Titas Sadhu bowled her best T20I spell by taking four wickets and then fifties from openers Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana proved enough to help India chase down 141 runs at Dr Dy Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai.
“There have been a lot of improvements. Earlier, whenever we would play against Australia the games never used to go that close. This is one positive (from the last match) that we are able to take it till the end,” Deepti said ahead of 3rd ODI at Wankhede Stadium on January 1, 2024.
Smriti Mandhana was unwell and hence didn't feature in the first ODI against Australia at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday, December 28.
Southpaw Phoebe Litchfield was awarded the Player of the Match (POTM) for playing a match-winning knock of 78 runs off 89 balls at a strike rate of 87.64. Her knock included eight fours and a maximum.
Australia made short work of a 283-run chase by getting home with 21 balls remaining after half-centuries from Ellyse Perry, Phoebe Litchfield and Tahlia McGrath against India in the first ODI of the three-match series. Australia took a 1-0 lead as Jemimah Rodrigues' fantastic innings went in vain.
"Full credit to the Indian team, they just put too many runs on us. If we would have batted the first full day, we could have been in the game. Winning the toss and not putting the runs on the board and then leaking too many runs in the afternoon," Alyssa Healy said.
In-form spin all-rounder Deepti Sharma top-scored with 78 runs off 171 balls to help India score 406 runs in their first innings and then captain Harmanpreet Kaur shone with a ball to put India in complete control of the one-off Test at the end of Day 3's play in Mumbai.
Carrara Oval hosted the last Test that was played between India women and Australia women in 2021 and the fixture resulted in a draw. Smriti Mandhana was awarded the Player of the Match in that game for her brilliant first innings hundred.
Alyssa Healy's first assignment will be Australia's forthcoming multi-format tour of India. The reigning world champions will play a one-off Test, three ODIs and three T20Is during their tour of India.
Australia's multiformat tour of India will be the reigning world champions' first series after the retirement of legendary player Meg Lanning. Lanning has left big boots to fill and her absence can affect Australia's chances in the upcoming tournaments.
India women are going to host England and Australia in their forthcoming home series with all the matches scheduled to be played in Maharashtra.
Ellyse Perry has batted really well in recent times across formats but she has missed out on scoring a century.
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