Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], October 12 (ANI): An on the spot traditional century by skipper Alyssa Healy and prime cameos from Ellyse Perry and Ashleigh Gardner helped Australia beat India by three wickets, chasing down 331 runs, the highest-ever goal within the historical past of ladies’s ODI cricket.
In pursuit of 331 runs, Healy smashed a 107-ball 142, with 21 fours and three sixes, which is the very best rating in a run-chase towards India.
Australia have outdone Sri Lanka, who chased down 302 towards South Africa final yr. With this win, Australia is on the prime of the desk, having received three matches and drawn one in 4 video games. India, after beginning its marketing campaign with wins over Sri Lanka and arch-rivals Pakistan, has slipped to 2 losses towards South Africa and Australia and now sits in third spot.
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 acquired Annabel Sutherland (0).
Nonetheless, Healy acquired in a position help from Ashleigh Gardner (45 in 46 balls, with three fours and a six), taking the Aussies previous the 260-run mark. When Charani acquired Healy at a rating of 265, it injected new life into the Indian workforce, who decreased 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.
Earlier, the Australian ladies’s workforce 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 unbelievable 155-run stand for the opening wicket. Nonetheless, India couldn’t capitalise on it so much as a five-wicket haul from Annabel Sutherland (5/40) and Sophie Molineux (3/75) managed to take common wickets in a while.
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.
The left-hander Mandhana turned the fifth participant and second Indian to have reached 5,000 runs in ladies’s ODI, scoring 5,000 runs to this point 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 and 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 report of 970 runs, as soon as the very best in a calendar yr in ladies’s ODIs throughout 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 incredible, with 1,062 runs in 18 matches and innings at a mean of 59.00 and a strike charge of 112.85, with 4 centuries and 4 fifties.
Her 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.
106* runs 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.
The Mandhana-Rawal pair retains on giving, having 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).
That is 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.
Annabel Sutherland additionally reached a private milestone by taking her fiftieth wicket in Girls’s ODIs, ending with career-best figures of 5/40 on this match and changing into the primary participant to take a five-wicket haul in ladies’s ODI on her birthday.
Transient Scores: India: 330 (Smriti Mandhana 80, Pratika Rawal 75, Annabel Sutherland 5/40) misplaced to Australia: 331/7 (Alyssa Healy 142, Ellyse Perry 47*, Shree Charani 3/41). (ANI)
