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So that's it. After the 2024 women's T20 World Cup there was a nice discourse that ODIs are perhaps India's best format because it suits most of their players. Australia have now showed that how far wrong that was. There's so, so much room for improvement in every department and it'll still take a lot of time and accountability to achieve that. They don't even have to look farther than the opposition to know how to get either of those things done. We'll see if something changes on Wednesday. For now, it's Rudransh signing off on behalf of Bidipto, Soorya and the entire Sportskeeda commentary team that works tirelessly behind the scenes to get this coverage for you. Have an excellent rest of your day. See-you!
Tahlia McGrath (Australia captain): It was pretty nice to watch. The Volly 100 was the highlight but everyone did so well. It was just her confidence, played some lovely drives, and they were probably not sure how to get her out. You could see Perry's intent and six-hitting. We want to be about that -- taking the game on. There are always seven bowlers on my mind, which is a challenge. We were hoping for a bit more movement off the pitch but now hopefully, there's a bit more bounce at the WACA.
Harmanpreet Kaur (India captain): We got some partnerships in between even though it was a very big total (to chase). We still looked to keep a positive mindset. Good partnerships but we were short by a few runs. (Were conditions challenging early on with the ball?) We created opportunities but unfortunately we couldn't take them. They also played really well, we need to appreciate that. With our bowling, we need to think of our plans and think of how we're going to bowl in the next game. We expected some early momentum but they batted really well. Today we got a few forties but we weren't able to convert them into fifties or hundreds. We need to bat longer and bat the full 50 overs. In both games we haven't been able to do that.
Ellyse Perry is the Player of the Match for her outstanding rapid 105 off 75 balls. Here's what she has to say: A really different game to the other day. The openers set the platform up again and some really good contributions down the order. We bowled really well. Good to toil away there and finish with a win. We're really fortunate to have the lineup that we do. I think it's just about making the most of the opportunities we have. As I said Voll and Phoebe at the start just set the tone there for us. We played a lot of T20 cricket in the last year. So not much changes, it's about picking the right bowler and the right lengths. We've got complementary batters throughout the order. We've just got options and it worked for us today. I had a lot of fun, it's a great place to play cricket. Really good crowd and a fun atmosphere.
5:27 PM local time, 12:57 PM IST: Australia win by 122 runs!
A proper thumping from Australia as they take a deserved, impregnable 2-0 lead in the ODIs. India conceded a record 371 in the first innings and chased like there was no target, with the intent hiding somewhere in the dressing room. Due to Priya Punia's injury, India promoted finisher Richa Ghosh to open alongside Mandhana. The latter got out cheaply again, Harleen followed her and the Ghosh-Harman pair couldn't shift the tempo despite scoring 66 runs together.
Boundaries came through every over but strike-rotation was negligible. So a down the leg bowled off King for Ghosh was all it took to game to roll into a cliff of losing momentum. Australia brought back Gardner and Schutt immediately. The latter took out Harman and the former took out Deepti Sharma, who never looked quite comfortable. Jemimah played her typical busy knock but a lack of power-hitting from either end meant the required run-rate stayed over 10 constantly.
Once she got out, it was all about Minnu Mani making the most of the chance with a mature rearguard action, including a couple of good boundaries, before Sutherland wrapped up the tail. As Punia couldn't bat, Australia needed just nine wickets, even though they looked like they could take 18.
44.5 Annabel Sutherland to Priya Mishra, BOUNCED OUT! And that is that with Priya Punia not fit to bat. Nasty bumper at the stumps and Mishra gets into all sorts as she swivels looking to hook it fine. Ends up getting some glove on it as it lobs through to Mooney who takes a straightforward catch. Australia hammer India by 123 runs to seal the series 2-0 with a game to spare!
Priya Mishra c Beth Mooney b Annabel Sutherland 5 (14b, 0x4, 0x6)
44.4 Annabel Sutherland to Minnu Mani, pace off on a length outside the off stump. Minnu hops aside and opens the face to dab it late to deep third
44.3 Annabel Sutherland to Minnu Mani, FOUR! THAT'S A SHOT! Bouncer angling into the stumps. Minnu picks the length, stands tall and helps herself to a short-arm pull behind square. Superbly placed as she picks out the fence
44.2 Annabel Sutherland to Minnu Mani, banged in short outside the off stump. Minnu stands tall and cuts it powerfully over point and into the deep. Two runs taken
44.2 Annabel Sutherland to Minnu Mani, WIDE! Down the leg-side as she loses control over the slower one. Time to reload
44.1 Annabel Sutherland to Minnu Mani, full and angling in close to the off stump. Minnu throws her hands at it before it skews square on the leg-side off the inner half of her bat. Into the deep for a brace
These are good positive signs for India. At least their tail is wagging and not having Australia the satisfaction easily. Mani should now show if she can hit some big shots over the field too. It would help her case.
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Priya Mishra*
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Minnu Mani
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Sophie Molineux
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43.6 Sophie Molineux to Priya Mishra, quicker one as she goes full on off stump. Mishra gets forward with a poke before it hits the inside edge and rolls to square leg
43.5 Sophie Molineux to Priya Mishra, looped up full on the off stump. Mishra lunges forward to blunt it to short cover
43.5 Sophie Molineux to Priya Mishra, FIVE RUNS! More bonus runs for India! Drifting down the leg-side this time as Mishra is beaten on the sweep. Trickles past Mooney too as it runs away to the fence
43.4 Sophie Molineux to Priya Mishra, OHH! FOUR LEG BYES! Arm ball that fizzes through quickly off a good length on off stump. Mishra brings her bat down quickly as she hops back but it just strikes her thigh pads high and beats everything and the keeper thereafter en route to the fence
43.3 Sophie Molineux to Minnu Mani, short around leg stump. Minnu gets across and swivels to help a controlled pull to deep square leg off her bottom hand
43.2 Sophie Molineux to Minnu Mani, FOUR! NICELY DONE! Full and leg-lined as she stays around the wicket. Minnu sits low and paddles her sweep extremely fine. Nobody to come in the way of that
43.1 Sophie Molineux to Priya Mishra, OHH! Arm ball drifting into the stumps. Mishra pokes forward before it catches the inside edge and just misses leg stump as well as the keeper. Rolls away for a run
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