Indian women’s team vs Australian women’s team
INDW vs. AUSW: A test match was played between the Indian women’s team and the Australian women’s cricket team. In this match, Team India won the cup by defeating Australia by 8 wickets. The Indian women’s team defeated Australia for the first time in the history of Test cricket. This is Team India’s second consecutive Test win. Earlier, Team India had also defeated England in a Test match. India won this game on the last day of the Test match. Team India’s opening batsman Smriti Mandhana finished this game for India. Australia had given Team India a target of winning by just 75 runs. Which he pursued very easily after losing two wickets.
How was the game?
In the match between the Indian women’s team and the Australian women’s team, Australian captain Alyssa Healy won the toss and elected to bat first. Where the Indian bowlers performed brilliantly and defeated the Australian team by just 219 runs. Pooja Vastrakar took four wickets, Sneh Rana took three wickets and Deepti Sharma took two wickets. Tahlia McGrath scored a half-century for Australia. Apart from them, only Beth Mooney and Alyssa Healy were able to score a few runs. In the first innings of the match, Team India completely maintained their dominance and gave Australia no chance of a comeback.
Now Team India’s batsmen had a great opportunity to take the lead and the Indian team did something similar. India scored 406 runs in their innings and took a huge lead of 187 runs. During this period, four players from India scored half-centuries. This included the names of Smriti Mandhana (74 runs), Richa Dhosh (52 runs), Jemimah Rodrigues (73 runs) and Deepti Sharma (78 runs). Apart from these four, Shafali Verma played an innings of 40 runs and Pooja Vastrakar played an innings of 47 runs.
second half of the game
The Indian team now had a significant lead. Team India now had to defeat Australia again with a low total score. Indian bowlers performed the same miracles again and defeated the Australian women’s team by 261 runs. Sneh Rana took four wickets, Harmanpreet Kaur took two wickets, Gaikwad took two wickets and Pooja Vastrakar took one wicket. After leaving the Australian team behind by a total of 261 runs, India now needed just 75 runs to win. Which Team India chased easily.