Australia beat India by six wickets in first women’s cricket one-day international – as it happened
Comprehensive win for the Aussies,Litchfield gave them the early momentum, then there was a small wobble when she and Voll went quickly, but the old heads filled in for the youngsters, with Healy and Mooney putting the chase back on course, and Sutherland finishing the job,Australia draw level on points in the multiformat series, having lost the T20 leg 2-1,We’ll have the next ODI in a couple of days,Thanks for your company.
38.2 overs: Australia 217-4 (Sutherland 48, Gardner 5) And that is that! Sutherland hits Deepti over midwicket for six to seal the game.38th over: Australia 211-4 (Sutherland 42, Gardner 5) Charani back, big turn too, she should have bowled out her overs earlier.Finishes the night having bowled only nine, and not all of them when the match was open.Gardner cuts three here, runs keep coming.
37th over: Australia 206-4 (Sutherland 40, Gardner 2) Ash Gardner away quickly with a pull for two, and that’s the over.Nine runs to win.Too late to make a difference, but Mooney gets to enjoy an ovation of her own on the way off, 76 off 79 balls is a classic Beth Mooney kind of score, especially at AB Field in Queensland.Chips the ball to cover.36th over: Australia 202-3 (Mooney 75, Sutherland 39) Verma the bowler now, and it’s the same result: Sutherland, off drive, four.
Belts that one, Deepti dives but it was too straight.Mooney just keeps tucking and running.13 to get.35th over: Australia 193-3 (Mooney 71, Sutherland 34) Perfect cover drive from Mooney, waits for Deepti’s delivery to drop and then drills it between the fielders.A couple of twos for Sutherland, deflecting balls behind the wicket, then a bad misfield from Verma, the ball is smacked at her at mid-off, but she looks up to see whether the batters are running, and lets it between her feet for four more.
The over goes for 13.34th over: Australia 180-3 (Mooney 66, Sutherland 26) They’re persisting with Verma, who hasn’t gone for many runs, to be fair.A couple to cover, a raced single.Drinks.33rd over: Australia 177-3 (Mooney 63, Sutherland 26) Kashvee Gautam back with seam, but Mooney is running smoothly now and punts another boundary down the ground.
Only 38 more to win,32nd over: Australia 169-3 (Mooney 57, Sutherland 23) Verma continues, very slow, loopy, milked,Six from it,31st over: Australia 163-3 (Mooney 55, Sutherland 19) Fine style to raise the fifty, as Mooney dances and lofts once more, sending Charani over the rope straight down the ground,Her 20th fifty in one-day cricket, to go with 27 in T20s and four in Tests, for 51 of them all up for Australia.
30th over: Australia 153-3 (Mooney 48, Sutherland 17) Dreadful cricket all round there.Verma’s bowling isn’t much to write about, to begin with.Sutherland responds by lumping a pull shot straight to deep midwicket.Then Kashvee drops the standard catch.They’re not much of a chance to change this game, India, but that might have given them an opening.
29th over: Australia 151-3 (Mooney 47, Sutherland 16) Nice shot from Sutherland, a timed late cut as Renuka Singh comes back, then Mooney gets down on one knee and lifts the ball from leg stump over backward square.Singles from the other deliveries, a dozen from the over, and they only need 64 to win from 21 overs.28th over: Australia 139-3 (Mooney 41, Sutherland 10) Oooh, missed chance! Rodrigues is one of the best fielders for India but she loses this ball.It’s low, not sure if it would have had sky or a grandstand behind it.Mooney cuts, the ball is dying as it nears point, but Rodrigues is moving to her left and then realises too late that the ball is swerving to her right and dipping.
She probably thought it was hit more cleanly.It drops to the turf, and skittles the fielder for two runs.Then Sutherland belts a full toss through leg for four.27th over: Australia 131-3 (Mooney 38, Sutherland 5) No review from India as Charani hits Mooney on the back leg, though ball-tracking would have shown it going over.One where the projection shows more bounce than the human brain would imagine.
Four singles from the over, Australia collating a score with ease.26th over: Australia 127-3 (Mooney 36, Sutherland 3) Pretty good over from Gaud, bowling straight and at a length that Mooney can’t do much with.Mooney happy to wait.Time and overs on Australia’s side.25th over: Australia 126-3 (Mooney 36, Sutherland 2) Lovely from Mooney, charges Charani, realises she has to wait a moment longer for the ball to arrive, and drops in that pause before going through with a flowing drive past mid on for four.
24th over: Australia 121-3 (Mooney 32, Sutherland 1) That’s the thing about this Australian team, though,You get rid of one quality batter and another one walks out,Annabel Sutherland is ready to do her bit,Kranti Gaud now, who lost her line early, and gets uppercut by Mooney to start this over, but only for one,That brings Healy onto strike, and she drills her cut shot to backward point! Rodrigues has to leap to get hands to that one, but reels it in.
23rd over: Australia 118-2 (Healy 50, Mooney 31) She’s done this so many times now,Another milestone for Healy, her 19th fifty in one-day cricket,A little cut shot for one, to cover,Mooney decides to do the celebrating herself, skipping down at Deepti to loft her for six, dead straight,22nd over: Australia 109-2 (Healy 49, Mooney 23) Another good shot from Mooney, whips Kashvee over square leg and it takes a good dive to save two runs.
21st over: Australia 105-2 (Healy 48, Mooney 20) Charani again, and that’s enough quiet respect: Healy goes back and clouts her pull shot over long on for four.Sharp singles to follow, to cover and they both dash, good understanding to eliminate the risk.20th over: Australia 99-2 (Healy 43, Mooney 19) Kashvee Gautam returns, and Mooney welcomes the pace by smoking her cut through backward point for four.Not a carve, just places the bat there and times it so well that she beats the sweeper.Lifts her next ball over the infield on the off side for one.
The singles follow, then a tiny tickle through fine leg for four more! Healy’s pull gets the faintest bottom edge to redirect the ball, and that’s enough.19th over: Australia 88-2 (Healy 38, Mooney 13) Charani is back after the brief Verma experiment, and the Australians keep cutting her from the height of the stumps.Three singles, that’s 2 for 11 from four for Charani.18th over: Australia 85-2 (Healy 37, Mooney 11) A hop, skip, and jump for Healy, down the pitch to loft Deepti over long on, and Kranti Gaud makes a meal of the fielding, thinking about using her foot, then going down to ground level but missing the ball.Four.
17th over: Australia 79-2 (Healy 32, Mooney 10) Hmmm, Shafali Verma on for a trundle.It worked in the World Cup final, but I’m not convinced she’s the option here.A part-time one, really.Healy cracks a cut for two, then one.Mooney finds one easily through point.
Drinks.16th over: Australia 74-2 (Healy 28, Mooney 9) A minor collision in the deep, Amanjot and… was that Kashvee? Out sweeping on the leg side, Healy also sweeps Deepti into the gap between them, and they bump into each other but don’t lose the ball, two runs.Mooney gets strike and adds a couple with her square drive.Australia back in control right now despite those two wickets.15th over: Australia 69-2 (Healy 25, Mooney 7) Another milestone for Mooney, with her 7000th career run for Australia across formats.
Only Healy, Perry, Lanning ahead of her,She deserves to be classed with those three, even classed above them in some respects,Still the most important player in this Australian team, for mine,The singles flow from Charani,14th over: Australia 65-2 (Healy 23, Mooney 5) Big sweep shot from Healy, in the air past Rodrigues who dives for it but is nowhere near big enough to reach that.
Just the one run.Mooney is finding the singles so easily, using her feet to get access to the off side, to make balls shorter than they are, and use her forcing cut stroke.13th over: Australia 61-2 (Healy 21, Mooney 3) Charani to Mooney, happy to cut to cover and run, Healy beating the throw from Amanjot.That’s 3000 ODI runs for Mooney.12th over: Australia 58-2 (Healy 19, Mooney 1) All spin now, with Deepti Sharma on for an over of off-breaks, two runs from it.
11th over: Australia 56-2 (Healy 19, Mooney 1) No hat-trick for Charani – Beth Mooney would have to be the last player in the world who you’d want to bowl to on a hat-trick.Unflappable.Calmly blocks that ball, then drives a single from her next to start her night.Gone first ball! Batting in Perry’s spot, but batting in an un-Perry-like way, chipping a drive to cover first ball for the fielder to dive forward.Shree Charani is on a hat-trick.
The left-arm spinner was sensational at the World Cup, and Shree Charani strikes here! Tosses it up, Litchfield jumps out of her crease and launches a big straight drive, but is done in the air.The ball clips her pocket which slows it down, increasing the degree of difficulty for Ghosh who has to wait for that ball before double-fisting it into the stumps.Litchfield almost has time to get back, but not quite.10th over: Australia 55-0 (Healy 18, Litchfield 32) A few leg byes in that over from Kashvee, Australia ticking along.9th over: Australia 49-0 (Healy 15, Litchfield 31) Renuka wants to keep Healy pinned on strike, and will be frustrated that an inside edge squeezes away for a run.
That allows Litchfield to open up the scoring, a lovely square drive that beats the fielder in the deep, then another brace that doesn’t.Australia a quarter of the way there in quick time.8th over: Australia 42-0 (Healy 14, Litchfield 25) Kashvee Gautam replaces Kranti, similar right-arm seam, does better though: beats a wild drive from Litchfield on the outside edge, then nicks the inside edge past the stumps.It costs three runs but nearly got the wicket.7th over: Australia 37-0 (Healy 12, Litchfield 22) Close review! Not a bad shout for India, Renuka Singh shaping the ball in, and with Richa Ghosh coming up to the stumps, Healy has to move her stance back into her crease.
The ball hits her above the knee roll, but that’s less often a factor in women’s cricket where a lot of players are shorter, and Healy is certainly one of them,She’s given not out, though the projection shows it might have been taking both bails off,Umpire’s call,A few balls later, dropped catch,A very tough one for the keeper standing up.
An inside edge that lets Healy steal a single, it smacks into Ghosh’s gloves but ricochets,No, scratch that, the umpire calls a bye,The only score from the over,6th over: Australia 36-0 (Healy 12, Litchfield 22) The young Aussie opener keeps taking down the young Indian opening bowler,Sizing her up by now, belts one boundary with a pick-up shot over midwicket, then smacks another leg-side ball behind square.
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