Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], October 13 (ANI): The marquee India-Australia conflict within the ICC Girls’s World Cup lived as much as all its hype as regardless of a large rewriting of record-books by Indian opener Smriti Mandhana, it have been unimaginable five-wicket haul from Annabel Sutherland and an explosive, stroke-filled century from skipper Alyssa Healy which powered Aussies to a chart-topping three-wicket win at Visakhapatnam on Sunday.
The conflict was a record-breaking one. Proper from particular person items of glory to crew milestones, proper from Mandhana’s information to Australia as soon as once more re-writing historical past books to justify all of the seven titles collected earlier than, this match had all of it.
Listed below are all the key information damaged from the conflict:
-Smriti Mandhana reaching 5,000 WODI runs, changing into first to the touch 1,000 runs in a calendar yr
Mandhana is the fifth participant to have reached 5,000 runs in girls’s ODI, scoring 5,000 runs thus far in 112 matches and innings at a mean of 47.37, with 13 centuries and 33 fifties. On the age of 29 years and 68 days, she is the youngest to achieve the milestone, the quickest to get there by way of innings (112) and balls confronted (5,569), bettering Stafanie Taylor (129 innings) and Suzie Bates (6,182 balls), respectively.
Having already damaged Aussie legend Belinda Clark’s document of 970 runs, as soon as the very best in a calendar yr in girls’s ODIs in the course of the earlier conflict towards South Africa, Mandhana turned the first-ever participant to cross the 1,000-run mark in a calendar yr. This yr, she has been improbable, with 1,062 runs in 18 matches and innings at a mean of 59.00 and a strike fee of 112.85, with 4 centuries and 4 fifties.
-Mandhana’s history-making run towards Aussies
The left-hander’s final 5 innings towards Australia are: 105, 58, 117, 125 and now 80, making her the one batter to register 5 consecutive 50-plus scores towards Australia Girls in ODIs. In 20 ODIs towards Australia, Mandhana has scored 996 runs at a mean of 49.80 and a strike fee of 108.02, with 4 centuries and 6 fifties and a finest rating of 125. Certainly, an Aussie hunter similar to one other famous person carrying the quantity 18 on his again like her, Virat Kohli.
-Mandhana-Pratika, a superhit opening mixture
For India, Pratika Rawal has been a revelation. In 21 ODIs, she has scored 982 runs at a mean of 49.10, with a century and 7 fifties and a finest rating of 154. Her partnership with Smriti has been historic.
Mandhana and Rawal have registered six century stands (in 21 innings) for India (for any wickets), the second-highest subsequent to seven between Mithali Raj and Punam Raut (34 innings). They’ve had a four-century partnership on this calendar yr, the second-most by a pair in a calendar yr, with the highest pair being Belinda and Lisa Keightley (Australia) (5 within the 2000s).
Their 155 runs partnership is the very best opening stand towards Australia in World Cups, bettering 101 runs added by England’s E Bakewell & D Thomas within the inaugural World Cup again in 1973.
-Annabel Sutherland’s slice of historical past on her birthday
Sutherland secured her first five-wicket haul, taking 5/40 to limit India from 234/2 to 330 all out. She additionally reached a private milestone by taking her fiftieth wicket in Girls’s ODIs, along with her tally going to 53.
The all-rounder, who turned 24 on Sunday, turned the primary girls’s cricketer to realize a novel feat of getting a five-wicket haul in girls’s ODI on her birthday and the one second participant in all of ODI cricket to take action, after Afghanistan spin star Rashid Khan (in males’s ODI vs South Africa final yr).
-India make historical past as a batting pair
Their whole of 330 runs was the very best whole for India within the Girls’s Cricket World Cup, surpassing their 317/8 towards the West Indies in 2022 at Hamilton.
-Healy, the large match star
Healy’s century, a knock of 142 in 107 balls, with 21 fours and three sixes, is the very best rating towards India in a Girls’s ODI run-chase. She additionally levelled with Karen Rolton and Meg Lanning (three centuries in 22 innings every) for essentially the most centuries for Australian girls in WC historical past.
That is additionally the third-highest particular person rating by a batter whereas chasing in World Cups after Lanning’s 152* runs vs Sri Lanka in Bristol in 2017, and Nat Sciver-Brunt’s 148* runs vs Australia in Christchurch within the 2022 version.
Healy’s knock is the second-highest rating towards India in girls’s ODI after 156* runs by England’s Claire Taylor at Lord’s in 2006.
-Australia pull off the unthinkable
Australia chased down 331 runs, the highest-ever goal in girls’s ODI historical past, outdoing Sri Lanka’s chase of 302 towards South Africa final yr. They did so with an over to spare. That is additionally the highest run-chase in girls’s WC historical past, because the defending champions outdid their 278 run chase towards the identical opponents in 2022 at Auckland.
A six-fest to the core
A complete of 13 sixes have been smashed within the match, seven by India and 6 by Aussies, essentially the most sixes hit in a World Cup match.
Coming to the match, Australia received the toss and opted to bowl first. Openers Pratika Rawal (75 in 96 balls, with 10 fours and a six) and Mandhana (80 in 66 balls, with 9 fours and three sixes) laid down the platform with an unimaginable 155-run stand for the opening wicket. Nonetheless, India couldn’t capitalise on it loads as a five-wicket haul from Annabel Sutherland (5/40) and Sophie Molineux (3/75) managed to take common wickets afterward.
After exploits from Mandhana-Rawal, Harmanpreet Kaur, the skipper (22 in 17 balls, with three fours), Jemimah Rodrigues (33 in 21 balls, with 5 fours), and Richa Ghosh (32 in 22 balls, with three fours and two sixes) walked the discuss with an attacking method, however couldn’t convert their begins to milestones as Sutherland and Molineux took India from 234/2 in 36.2 overs to 330 all out in 48.5 overs.
Throughout the run-chase, Healy began off proceedings with an 85-run stand to put down the partnership with Phoebe Litchfield (40 in 39 balls, with six fours and a six). After Shree Charani (3/41) eliminated Litchfield, Perry got here at quantity three however retired damage with the rating at 154/1. India made a short inroad within the match, as Deepti Sharma eliminated Beth Mooney (4) and Charani bought Annabel Sutherland (0).
Nonetheless, Healy bought ready assist from Ashleigh Gardner (45 in 46 balls, with three fours and a six), taking the Aussies previous the 260-run mark. When Charani bought Healy at a rating of 265, it injected new life into the Indian crew, who lowered the Aussies to 303/7 in 45.1 overs. The skilled Perry (47* in 52 balls, with 5 fours and a six) returned to bat and completed the match with Kim Garth (14* in 13 balls, with two fours). Perry sealed the sport with a six, with an over left. Healy bought the ‘Participant of the Match’ award for her masterclass knock. (ANI)
