Source : the age
By Joel Gould
After Australia’s batsmen won the series ‘ starting International by six wickets, Beth Mooney and Alyssa Healy scored stunning half-centuries.
Healy laid the groundwork for the work hunt on Tuesday nights with 50 off 70 deliveries, returning to lead the team after missing the most recent T20 series.
Before combining with run machine and match winner Mooney ( 76 off 79 ), she had great support from aggressive opening partner Phoebe Litchfield ( 32 ), as Australia fought back from India’s 214 all out in 38.2 overs.
Mooney joined Meg Lanning, Ellyse Perry, and Healy on the exclusive list, becoming the fourth American woman to score 7000 international runs and bringing up 3000 operates in ODI bowling.
In an wickets of class and great tempo, the 32-year-old sloped two beautiful sixes down the ground.
At the end of the work chase, she had a great ally in Annabel Sutherland, who scored 48 runs off 44 runs for an 85-run remain for the third wicket.
After India won the T20 sequence with a score of 2-1, Australia and India are now on four competitors points in the multi-format collection.
At Brisbane’s Allan Border Field, the visitors were consistently in charge.
In the end, Mooney said,” It was very forceful.”
” I was disappointed to get out with 12 runs to get and sending someone else out there,” said one player.” But that’s the kind of ( aggressive ) style of cricket we want to play moving forward.”
After the guests suffered injuries before their staff could be named, Australia’s bowlers shone a bright light on India.
Before India won the toss and elected to bat, the line ‘ actors Ellyse Perry and Kim Garth were expelled. Both suffered rear isolates in Saturday’s T20 defeat to India.
Megan Schutt, a fast bowler who wasn’t actually a member of the squad, was called up and took a innings with the first ball of the wickets when she slammed Pratika Rawal in front for a bird.
At the other end, Darcie Brown threw a daring catch-and-bowl to Shafali Verma ( four ) and put the visitors on the back foot early.
Ashleigh Gardner, Alana King, and Sophie Molineux ‘ roll kept the tension on, with the group taking wickets in thick wickets to keep the work rate at a low.
Gardner (3-33 ) had the best bowling performances, but Australia used all seven of them.
Smriti Mandhana’s in-form opener Tahlia McGrath won the crucial scalp with a 58 down 68 deliveries when she swept a startling leg-side delivery to a heavy fine leg.
When it was looking rocky, India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur ( 53 ) and big-hitting allrounder Kashvee Gautam ( 43 ) saved the innings.
Highlights of Georgia Voll’s fielding included her excellent diving effort to ignore the captain, who took three catches.
Gardner’s soft flick at the stumps sent the dangerous Gautam out in the final over of the India innings.
Gautam claimed that India did not score much runs, but that they hadn’t developed into a negative side simply due to one defeat.
The following contest in the collection will take place on Friday in Hobart.
” We can spin back,” Gautam remarked.
Prior to the end of the ODI series, Cricket Australia previously made a statement regarding Perry and Garth’s possible return.
At the conclusion of the ODI set, their availability for the Test fit will be further evaluated based on how they handle rehab, according to the statement.
AAP
