IND vs AUS Women 1st ODI: Toothless Indian bowling sees Australia chase 283 with ease

IND vs AUS Women 1st ODI: Batting first, India has set a great target for a dominant Australian side led by Alyssa Healy. Having already suffered a blow before the match with Smriti Mandhana not playing, the India women’s cricket team struggled.

After losing their top five batters for 134, it looked like the Women in Blue would not even cross the 200-run mark, but Jemimah Rodrigues and Pooja Vastrakar had other things in mind.

Coming in when India was 57/3, Jemimah scored 82 off 77 and saw her side cross 250 by the time she was dismissed. Vastrakar played the match-changing innings, though; her 62 of 46 saw her enter at 182/7 and remain unbeaten as India scored 100 runs in the last 74 balls.

However, Australian batters made short work of the 283-run target. Despite Sneh Rana‘s brilliance in the first over of the chase, it was all one-way traffic. Three of the six Australian batters that played scored fifties as the visitors cruised to an easy 6-wicket victory in the IND vs AUS 1st ODI.

IND vs AUS Women 1st ODI: Playing XIs

 India Women: Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Yastika Bhatia(w), Sneh Rana, Amanjot Kaur, Richa Ghosh, Pooja Vastrakar, Renuka Thakur Singh, Saika Ishaque.

Australia Women: Phoebe Litchfield, Alyssa Healy(w/c), Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Tahlia McGrath, Ashleigh Gardner, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham, Alana King, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown.

IND vs AUS Women ODI Records

IND (Highest score) vs AUS: 281/4 (42); Derby, 2017

AUS (Highest score) vs IND: 332/7 (50); Vadodra, 2018

IND (Lowest score) vs AUS: 74 (42); Auckland, 1982

AUS (Lowest score) vs IND: 77 (36.4); Chennai, 2004

IND (Highest individual score) vs AUS: Harmanpreet Kaur 171*(115); Derby, 2017

IND (Best bowling figures) vs AUS: Nooshin Al Khadeer 4/41(10); Adelaide, 2006

AUS (Highest individual score) vs IND: Alyssa Healy 133(115); Vadodra, 2018

AUS (Best bowling figures) vs IND: Ellyse Perry 5/19(8.1); Mumbai, 2012