India Women Vs Australia Women Only Test 21 December 2023

1st Test • Wankhede Stadium • Mumbai

Australia Women

219 & 261/10 (105.4)

India Women

406 & 75/2 (18.4)

IND-W won by 8 wickets

Info

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Scorecard

Mini Games

Player of the Match Sneh Rana

9(57)

3/56 & 4/63

Player of the Series Alyssa Healy

AUS-W 1st

IND-W 1st

AUS-W 2nd

IND-W 2nd

Info

Australia Women 1st Innings

219/10 (77.4)

Batters

Beth Mooney

42.55

c Rana b Vastrakar

Phoebe Litchfield

0.00

runout (Bhatia / Rodrigues)

Ellyse Perry

200.00

b Vastrakar

Tahlia McGrath

89.29

c Gayakwad b Rana

Alyssa Healy

50.67

b Sharma

Annabel Sutherland

27.59

lbw b Vastrakar

Ashleigh Gardner

42.31

c Bhatia b Vastrakar

Jess Jonassen

31.15

lbw b Sharma

Alana King

45.45

c Bhatia b Rana

Kim Garth

39.44

Not out

Lauren Cheatle

46.15

c Mandhana b Rana

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 1, W: 0)

TOTAL

(77.4 Ov, RR: 2.82)

219/10

Bowlers

EXT

Renuka Thakur

5.00

Pooja Vastrakar

3.31

Sneh Rana

22.4

2.47

Rajeshwari Gayakwad

2.23

Deepti Sharma

2.37

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Phoebe Litchfield

runout (Bhatia / Rodrigues)

1-2

0.6

Ellyse Perry

b Vastrakar

2-7

1.4

Tahlia McGrath

c Gayakwad b Rana

3-87

21.6

Beth Mooney

c Rana b Vastrakar

4-103

28.6

Alyssa Healy

b Sharma

5-143

45.1

Annabel Sutherland

lbw b Vastrakar

6-159

50.6

Ashleigh Gardner

c Bhatia b Vastrakar

7-160

52.1

Alana King

c Bhatia b Rana

8-168

55.1

Jess Jonassen

lbw b Sharma

9-198

70.4

Lauren Cheatle

c Mandhana b Rana

10-219

77.4

India Women 1st Innings

406/10 (126.3)

Batters

Shafali Verma

67.80

lbw b Jonassen

Smriti Mandhana

106

69.81

runout (Gardner / Garth)

Sneh Rana

15.79

b Gardner

Richa Ghosh

104

50.00

c Gardner b Garth

Jemimah Rodrigues

121

60.33

c Sutherland b Gardner

Harmanpreet Kaur

0.00

lbw b Gardner

Yastika Bhatia

14.29

lbw b Gardner

Deepti Sharma

171

45.61

b Garth

Pooja Vastrakar

126

37.30

c Garth b Sutherland

Renuka Thakur

88.89

c Gardner b Sutherland

Rajeshwari Gayakwad

0.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 15, LB: 5, NB: 4, W: 0)

TOTAL

(126.3 Ov, RR: 3.21)

406/10

Bowlers

EXT

Lauren Cheatle

2.56

Kim Garth

4.14

Ellyse Perry

7.75

Ashleigh Gardner

100

2.44

Jess Jonassen

2.33

Annabel Sutherland

11.3

3.57

Alana King

3.63

Tahlia McGrath

2.20

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Shafali Verma

lbw b Jonassen

1-90

16.4

Sneh Rana

b Gardner

2-140

34.5

Smriti Mandhana

runout (Gardner / Garth)

3-147

38.4

Richa Ghosh

c Gardner b Garth

4-260

69.5

Harmanpreet Kaur

lbw b Gardner

5-261

70.2

Yastika Bhatia

lbw b Gardner

6-265

72.3

Jemimah Rodrigues

c Sutherland b Gardner

7-274

78.4

Pooja Vastrakar

c Garth b Sutherland

8-396

122.6

Deepti Sharma

b Garth

9-402

125.5

Renuka Thakur

c Gardner b Sutherland

10-406

126.3

Australia Women 2nd Innings

261/10 (105.4)

Batters

Beth Mooney

89.19

runout (Ghosh)

Phoebe Litchfield

40.91

b Rana

Ellyse Perry

49.45

c Bhatia b Rana

Tahlia McGrath

177

41.24

b Kaur

Alyssa Healy

101

31.68

lbw b Kaur

Annabel Sutherland

102

26.47

c Bhatia b Rana

Ashleigh Gardner

25.93

lbw b Vastrakar

Jess Jonassen

21.43

b Gayakwad

Alana King

0.00

b Rana

Kim Garth

50.00

b Gayakwad

Lauren Cheatle

0.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 10, LB: 3, NB: 0, W: 0)

TOTAL

(105.4 Ov, RR: 2.47)

261/10

Bowlers

EXT

Renuka Thakur

2.91

Pooja Vastrakar

3.64

Sneh Rana

2.86

Deepti Sharma

1.59

Rajeshwari Gayakwad

28.4

1.47

Jemimah Rodrigues

6.50

Harmanpreet Kaur

2.56

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Beth Mooney

runout (Ghosh)

1-49

11.5

Phoebe Litchfield

b Rana

2-56

13.5

Ellyse Perry

c Bhatia b Rana

3-140

42.4

Tahlia McGrath

b Kaur

4-206

71.5

Alyssa Healy

lbw b Kaur

5-221

79.4

Ashleigh Gardner

lbw b Vastrakar

6-233

91.4

Annabel Sutherland

c Bhatia b Rana

7-251

100.2

Alana King

b Rana

8-251

100.3

Kim Garth

b Gayakwad

9-260

103.3

Jess Jonassen

b Gayakwad

10-261

105.4

India Women 2nd Innings

75/2 (18.4)

Batters

Shafali Verma

100.00

c Healy b Garth

Smriti Mandhana

62.30

Not out

Richa Ghosh

40.63

c McGrath b Gardner

Jemimah Rodrigues

80.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 8, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 0)

TOTAL

(18.4 Ov, RR: 4.02)

75/2

Did not Bat

Harmanpreet Kaur, Yastika Bhatia, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Pooja Vastrakar, Renuka Thakur, Rajeshwari Gayakwad

Bowlers

EXT

Kim Garth

3.80

Ashleigh Gardner

2.00

Tahlia McGrath

7.00

Jess Jonassen

2.4

6.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Shafali Verma

c Healy b Garth

1-4

0.4

Richa Ghosh

c McGrath b Gardner

2-55

15.2

Match Info

Date & Time

21 Dec, 09:30 AM IST

Venue

Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Match

1st Test,

Australia Women tour of India

Umpires

Anil Chaudhary (India), Janani N (India), Jayaraman Madanagopal (India, TV)

Referee

GS Lakshmi (India)

Toss

Australia Women elected to bat

0 W 4 0 1 0

Over 16

Runs: 5

0 0 0 1 4 0

Over 17

Runs: 5

0 0 4 0 0 1

Over 18

Runs: 5

0 1 0 4

Over 19

Runs: 5

All Overs

Player of the Match Sneh Rana

9(57)

3/56 & 4/63

Player of the Series Alyssa Healy

Commentary

What a delightful couple of weeks this has been for Indian women's cricket! The girls have managed to win back-to-back Test matches against England and Australia, respectively, when not too many people gave them too much of a chance. Some terrific individual performances at just the right times and more importantly, playing together as a well-knit side handed India these two magnificent wins in the purest format of the game! All we can say is that these girls deserve more and more cricket in whites going forward, both at home and away. Now, the action moves into the one-day international leg of the tour with the first game taking place on the 28th of December at the Wankhede Stadium. Do join us for that as another pulsating series awaits us between India and Australia! This is the pair of Arya and Bidipto taking your leave. Keep following Sportskeeda!

Harmanpreet Kaur (India Women captain): I think that it is a reward for all the hard work that we have done over the years. The patience that we have shown to improve as a team, has been amazing! We have been playing together for many years now, so, that definitely helps. We put Richa Ghosh up the order to let her play positive cricket and keep the pressure applied on them. Australia batted well in the second innings, but still, we showed the trust in our bowlers and the contributions came in handy. Our bowling coach keeps telling our bowlers to think only wickets, not contain runs. That has come good. We are thankful to the BCCI for giving us the opportunity to play Test cricket in back-to-back weeks. We are happy for the selections made as well and of course, it helps immensely when the crowd supports us like this! We are hopeful of the women's game improving by leaps and bounds in India.

Sneh Rana has been adjudged the Player of the Match! Here is what she has to say.

Sneh Rana: It feels amazing to win this game and get this award, standing here! (On whether she came in up the order in the final sessions of both the Test matches of late as a night-watchman) (answered with a smile) Well, no one called me a night-watchman, and I think I didn't let anyone feel like that with my batting either! I always look forward to the challenges, and definitely look to rise to the occasion to overcome those challenges. I'm always a comeback person, so, even if catches are dropped of my bowling, I look to motivate the fielders in question and come back stronger. Test match cricket is huge, so, the vibe for the players has been brilliant! I'm sure the more we play in this format, the better women's cricket will get in our country.

Alyssa Healy (Australia Women captain): It was an amazing experience of playing Test match cricket here! It's certainly not easy to win in these conditions, but, barring the first day, we have been good. Just that we had to play catch up after that. It's our first game here in red-ball cricket, so, would like to play more in India and make things more interesting. We would have loved to score 300 in the first innings, that I think would have kept us more in the game. The girls have really enjoyed their time in these last four days, hope to get things going in the white-ball leg straightaway!

Time now for the post-match presentation!

Smriti Mandhana: Well I think, it wasn't that tough. When we saw the surface, it looked like a rank turner but batting wasn't as hard. The first innings when Deepti and Pooja got the partnership, for me that won us the game. I told Shafali that we would bat as we batted in the first innings, nothing fancy just playing according to the merit or the ball. She was unfortunate to get out after getting underway with a boundary.

Jemimah Rodrigues: I always wanted to play Test cricket. Wear these white is a dream and winning two Tests and scoring a couple of half-centuries, Christmas has come early. I think even before the domestic season started, I had given myself goals and I wanted to be more consistent. The process was being consistent and the result always follows. This time I have had a lot of scores backing me and it paid off. Yeah I think, they have inspired me a lot. I am a Mumbai girl and expected to contribute a bit more.

Pooja Vastrakar: I am very happy after creating history. Really happy with the performance. I have tried very hard in batting but just wanted them to play all day long. Didn't wanted to bowl.

Renuka Singh Thakur: She asked me to keep patience so that was the only thing she was telling me. Keep patience and the wickets will follow. Can't disclose the celebration plans. That's a secret (chuckles).

India Women win the Test match by 8 wickets! By doing so, they win their first ever Test against Australia Women.

Smriti Mandhana - 74 (106) and 38* (61) | Sneh Rana - 3/56 (22.4) and 4/63 (22)
Tahlia McGrath - 50 (56) and 73 (177) | Ashleigh Gardner - 4/100 (41) and 1/18 (9)

This has been a supremely good effort from India to clinch a Test victory against arguably the best team in the world! All they needed in what was the final session of the match, was 46 runs. And it took them only 9.4 overs to get the job done!

Richa Ghosh was the only wicket to fall for India but by then, the hard work had been done. Jemimah Rodrigues walked out, batted for 15 deliveries, scored a couple of boundaries and ended not out on 12.

But, it was the calm and composed Smriti Mandhana who stayed there right from the start to the end, and took the team to the finish line! She remained not out on 38, scoring 6 boundaries in the process. Quite befittingly, she was the one hitting the winning runs, that too with a boundary!

Australia bowled 11.4 overs of spin but did not introduce leg-spinner Alana King into the attack! Also, there were 7 overs of seam bowled on a surface that assisted turn, with only 74 runs in the bank!

The overall game-plan from the visitors left a lot to be desired and they were outplayed in all three departments, actually! Captaincy too, did not quite match up to the standards of the predecessors.

India therefore, win back-to-back Test matches against two different teams, supposedly against stronger oppositions as well, in back-to-back weeks! This particular one though, was hard fought and hence, sweeter!

That is a quite stylish way to create history! Smriti Mandhana finishes it off with a majestic shot with the turn!

18.4 Jess Jonassen to Smriti Mandhana, FOUR! India creates history winning by 8 wickets. Their first Test win against Australia. Mandhana comes down the track and launches the tossed-up delivery down the ground, the third umpire is checking for the boundary. It doesn't really matter though.

18.3 Jess Jonassen to Smriti Mandhana, flatter on a length around middle, Mandhana taps it back to the bowler.

Only a boundary needed now for India!

18.2 Jess Jonassen to Jemimah Rodrigues, knocks away the good-length delivery around middle, down towards the midwicket region for a single. Just 4 more needed.

18.1 Jess Jonassen to Jemimah Rodrigues, slowish on a length a tad outside off, punched away from the cue end of the bat, back to the bowler.

Only one hit away now, are India from creating history! This will be their first win over Australia in Test match cricket. They have been just superb in both the matches in whites this month!

overs

70 /2 score

runs

Jemimah Rodrigues *

11 (13)

Smriti Mandhana

34 (59)

Ashleigh Gardner

1 /18

17.6 Ashleigh Gardner to Jemimah Rodrigues, fuller around the middle stump, Jemimah gets down on one knee and sweeps it away towards the deep square leg region for a single.

17.5 Ashleigh Gardner to Jemimah Rodrigues, slowish on a length a tad outside off, Jemi hangs back and blocks it solidly.

17.4 Ashleigh Gardner to Jemimah Rodrigues, flatter on a length around middle, keeps a bit low, Jemi defends it from the crease.

Fine shot! Fine, fine shot from Jemimah! Lovely batting by playing the field!