ICC Women's World Cup 2017: 5 things that went wrong for India against Australia

#2 Slow partnership between Mithali Raj and Punam Raut

Raj was too slow in her knock of 69

It was a historic game for Mithali Raj who became the highest run scorer in the history of women's cricket in this format. She also became the first player to score 6000 runs.

But her record-breaking knock came at a price for India as she played an agonisingly slow knock. The partnership between Raj and Raut crossed the 150 runs mark but it was so slow till the 30th over which gave Australia a commanding hold of the game.

Raut looked eager to try some shots and was trying to keep the scoreboard ticking. But Raj seemed to have thought too much of the occasion and concentrated on seeing out the overs rather than looking to hit in the gaps. India played a staggering 159 dot balls in today's batting effort which is just not done in a crunch World Cup game.