IND-W vs AUS-W 2nd T20I Highlights: Australia trumps India by six wickets to level series

Shreyanka with the penultimate over. She starts with a full toss, which is scooped away for a four by Phoebe Litchfield. Full and wide now and Litchfield slices it over point for another four. Just four needed and Perry on strike. Pitched up and Perry slog sweeps it. Solid connection. SIX!! Game over!!

Litchfield on strike. Pooja with the ball. Two dot balls against Phoebe. Pooja with a surprise bouncer. Top edge from Phoebe. But it lands just in front of. Last ball of the over. Fiercely cut by Perry. Smriti makes a diving stop at the fence to prevent a boundary. 

Deepti Sharma will bowl out. Perry smacks for a six down the ground which lands right in front of the Aussie dugout. What a way to bring up the team 100! Her partner Litchfield is not to be left out. She caps Deepti’s final over with a boundary through cover. 

Vastrakar comes in for her first over and she almost has a wicket right there as Gardner goes aerial. The ball lands safely though. Vastrakar finishes with the last laugh as Gardner knicks the ball to the keeper after a sprightly start. Litchfield joins Perry. Two in form batters in this tour. Can they finish it? 

WICKET | Ashleigh Gardner c †Ghosh b Vastrakar 7 (10b 1x4 0x6) SR: 70

Renuka Singh will bowl out. Gardner takes some time to get going but flicks Renuka to square for four. Six runs off Renuka’s final over. 

Perry is unfazed before RCB teammate Shreyanka, steering the ball fine for FOUR. However, Shreyanka will have the last laugh as McGrath falls. She tries to reverse sweep and gets a massive top edge which Richa Ghosh handles. 

WICKET | Tahlia McGrath c †Ghosh b Patil 19 (21b 3x4 0x6) SR: 90.47

10 runs off this over for Australia and McGrath is taking boundary hitting responsibilities. Cut on the off-side for four first after which she pulls it square. On a roll the Aussies. 

Deepti Sharma returns for her third and will go wicketless for a change. Deepti keeps it relatively quiet but Perry breaks the rut with a boundary off the last ball, putting it through point. Six runs from the over

Perry is not one to give in to pressure and she frees her arms against Amanjot who is in for her first over of the night. Comes down the track to send the ball flying through midwicket. This should give McGrath some confidence at the other end too as she rounds off the over with a boundary herself behind point. 

Another over, another first ball dismissal for Deepti Sharma and this time, it is Beth Mooney who has to go. Mooney comes down the track, misses and Richa Ghosh cleans her up behind the stumps. That brings Ellyse Perry out to the middle in her 300th international match. 

Sadhu returns for her third and has been impressive. Five runs off the over. Nothing too untoward for either side. 

Deepti Sharma is introduced and strikes off her very first delivery. She holes out to Shreyanka Patil who runs in to long-on and goes low to take a brilliant catch. Big wicket this. Just 2 runs conceded too. Good over. 

WICKET | Alyssa Healy c Patil b Sharma 26 (21b 4x4 0x6) SR: 123.8

Titas Sadhu returns for a second over. She was expensive, giving away 12 in her first. Better control over her line and length this time around as she gets in a couple of dots. She sends one beating Mooney ridiculously close to the top of the stumps. Mooney lets out a sigh. Came back into the batter this one. Good ball. 50-run stand comes up for the pair. 

Shreyanka gets another over in the PowerPlay. Starts with a wide down the off side. Healy shuffles across the stump and sweeps the next one over short fine leg for another four. Couple of singles come in courtesy of some good running. Healy ends the over with another four to deep fine leg. 

Renuka continues. Starts with two dot balls against Healy. Strikes her high on the pads and makes a half-hearted appeal for an LBW. Healy gets a couple of runs with a nudge to the leg side. Another two dot balls follow. A single from the last ball means Healy will retain the strike. 

Harmanpreet turn to Shreyanka quite early in the game. A slip in the place. Shreyanka cramps Mooney with a quicker one. Inside edge, but it is too far away for Richa make a catch. But Shreyanka races through the rest of the over without much trouble. 

Mooney on strike. Renuka operating with the keeper up. Goes around the wicket now. Line is tight. No runs from the first two balls. Overpitched and Mooney smokes it through cover. Leg side now and it clips off Mooney’s pads and runs away for a four. 

Titas into the attack and she almost strikes. Healy fails to get the connection right and it almost gets caught at short mid wicket. Three runs taken there. Full from Titas and Healy crashes it through covers. Short now and Healy employs the short arm jab. FOUR MORE!!

Renuka with the ball, as expected. On the pads first ball and Healy tucks it away for a single. On the channel against Mooney. Beaten! Mooney gets off the mark with a single down the off side. 

Megan Schutt to finish the innings. She begins with a wide that beats Healy to the boundary. Shreyanka then goes aerial as she sweeps to deep fine but Garth puts her down. Ah, the one time you want to see Perry at that boundary position, especially given how much Shreyanka likes those areas. A frenetic over this which ends with a run out off the last ball as Deepti is caught short of her crease. Schutt’s lines were all ove the place. There was the ploy to potentially target the feet to allow little space, but she got her lines all wrong. 13 runs come off that final over. 

WICKETS | Deepti Sharma run out (Perry/†Healy) 31 (27b 5x4 0x6) SR: 114.81

Gardner to bowl out now. Deepti’s scoring rate of around a run a ball is going to come under the scanner soon enough and she’s happy to dismiss chat for the timebeing as she sends Gardner to the boundary. Shreyanka then takes strike, and does her signature switch hit to send the ball to boundary. She is so good at this and so confident. 10 runs off the over. 

Sutherland to bowl. Deepti gets a single off the second ball. Amanjot, whose batting position has been discussed intensely, gets off the mark with a boundary behind square. But, she falls off the very next ball, holing out to Tahlia McGrath at mid-off who calls for it. MINE she says (much to Healy’s delight) and Phoebe Litchfield is happy to let her have it. Indians making the walk from and back to the pavilion here in quick succession. 

WICKET | Amanjot Kaur c McGrath b Sutherland 4 (2b 1x4 0x6) SR: 200

Wareham continues. Run out chance up front but Indians get by safely. Vastrakar has to stretch to reach this and gets it past Healy, but just a single again. OH, LBW appeal for Vastrakar who shuffles across to switch sides but gets the ball on her hip. Australia reviews. No bat involved. Ball tracking shows the ball hitting the off stump. Great review again from Australia. India under the pump. Second wicket for Wareham. 

WICKET | Pooja Vastrakar lbw b Wareham 9 (12b 0x4 0x6) SR: 75

Megan Schutt returns. There’s a no ball there but Schutt keeps the Indians quiet giving away just 6 runs. Nicely changes her pace to deny Vastrakar any chance to smack the ball to the boundary.

Wareham returns and off the very first ball, we have an appeal for LBW. Richa Ghosh is the player in question. Has this pitched outside leg? Umpire says not out, Healy appeals. DRS shows the ball in line and hitting the stumps. Richa has to make the long walk back to the pavilion. This will be something we discuss for a fair bit. Vastrakar joins Deepti out in the middle. Just 5 runs and the prized wicket of Richa Ghosh. Healy is beaming. 

WICKET | Richa Ghosh lbw b Wareham 23 (19b 2x4 1x6) SR: 121.05

Sutherland returns. Just three runs from this over, which also saw a run gifted by a Mooney misfield. Excellent pressure from the Aussies to tighten the chokehold on the runs here at the D.Y. Patil Stadium. 

Georgia Wareham comes in and Deepti sweeps to send the ball racing to four. There is definitely a more positive intent from Deepti to keep the runs coming, after the criticism she got for her scoring rate in the 2nd ODI against the same opponent under a week ago. It looks like her role here is to go big and she’s not middling some of the deliveries as a result. Richa quickly runs to her partner to perhaps calm her down. Wareham sticks to her tossed up deliveries and keeps the over tight with just four runs conceded. 

Healy has chosen to bowl out Garth now rather than saving her for the death. Interesting ploy to use her against the left-right combination India has. Australia have set their sights on Richa Ghosh and they are right to worry (if they are) about her. Richa is looking to purely thulp everything she sees and gets on one knee to try and pick the ball up above square leg. However, she gets a tempting top edge which safely bounces to the boundary. Different route, same result. Lucky to get bat on that one as she would have been plumb otherwise. Back to back boundaries for Richa who smacks this in the gap on the off-side. Garth is varying her speeds but she’s pulling Richa out to hit the ball, trying to get an edge perhaps. 11 runs come off this over.

Gardner strikes off the first ball after drinks. Harman is a great sweeper but this time, she gets a bit of a top edge which stays in the air and lands safely in Ellyse Perry’s hands in deep square leg. In comes Deepti Sharma and Richa is reassuring her new batting partner. Gardner follows that with a ball that goes into Deepti and just misses her leg stump. How lucky is Deepti! Gardner then tosses the ball up and Deepti awkwardly sweeps it well enough to get FOUR. Richa Ghosh gives the crowd something to scream about with a massive SIX to end the over. 

WICKET | Harmanpreet Kaur c Perry b Gardner 6 (12b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50

Sutherland returns. Keeps thing tight to begin with and gets the ball to angle inwards a bit too. Good pressure, but a scrappy overthrow allows the batters to run 2. 

Time for drinks.

In the 14 matches held at the D.Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, the team batting first has won only ONCE. 

Another bowling change. Georgia Wareham takes ove spin duties. A few dot balls bring out the sweeps from both Harmanpreet and Richa. Just four runs come off the over. Good work from Wareham. 

Sutherland comes in as the bowling change and Smriti Mandhana is eager to use the pace to get a few runs on the board. She welcomes Sutherland with a boundary through cover. Was ready to take this one on from the start. Good intent. 

Ah but what do you know! Sutherland will have the last laugh with Ellyse Perry taking a simple catch in the deep to remove Smriti Mandhana. 

Richa Ghosh joins her skipper in the middle to see out the final ball and the Sutherland’s ball deviates towards leg. Healy can’t get to it and runs away for four. 

WICKET | Smriti Mandhana c Perry b Sutherland 23 (26b 2x4 1x6) SR: 88.46

Gardner is a weak spot for Smriti Mandhana and the Aussie spinner will gladly take the chance to be able to apply some dot ball pressure. It almost works as Smriti tries to go aerial over the off side, but lands safely between two fielders at cover. Just the three runs conceded in this Gardner over. 

Garth starts conservatively but Smriti has been itching to get doing for a while. She has timed this really well to give India it’s first six of the night. A neat pick up shot over the square leg boundary. Wraps up the over conceding eight runs, does Garth. It has been an interesting opening spell for the pacer who replaced Darcie Brown in the lineup. 

Gardner into the attack. Smriti picks the length early. Rocks back and cuts one well enough for a four. Leg side wide next. Better length from Gardner now. Smriti unable to get it away. 

Garth too gets a second over. Easy single on offer for Smriti and she takes it. Jemimah taps one to short mid on and takes off on a risky single.. She has to make a dive at the non-strikers end, just to be safe. 

Just outside of the off stump. Jemimah tries to guide it to the off side. Thin edge and easy catch for Healy. 

Jemimah Rodrigues c †Healy b Garth 13 (9b 3x4 0x6)

IND 20/2 in 4 overs

Schutt continues. Smriti pushes one to deep cover to get off strike. Back of the hand slow ball from Schutt. Jemimah picks it very early and paddles it for a four. Schutt offers some width now. Cuts it wide off point for another four. 

Kim Garth from the other end. Smriti on strike. No width on offer. Smriti can’t get it away in the start of the over. Just a single from the first three balls. Shafali on strike. Garth pitches one just outside the off stump and nips it in. India burns a review on it. First strike for Australia. 

Shafali Verma lbw b Garth 1 (6b 0x4 0x6) SR: 16.66

Jemimah gets off the mark straight away with a well-timed square cut. FOUR!!

IND 8/1 in 2 overs

Megan Schutt with the first over for Australia. Straight ball to start with. Shafali defends on the front foot. A leg side wide gets India going. On the pads and Shafali clips it away for a single. 

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Little bit of dew and looked really hard to defend the other night. We didn’t play well, but yeah would be nice to start well with the ball. Tonight it will be really important to start well with the ball and restrict this powerful batting lineup to a score we can chase. We are fully aware of what the year is ahead. Every game is important going into the World Cup

India: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Richa Ghosh (wk), Amanjot Kaur, Shreyanka Patil, Pooja Vastrakar, Titas Sadhu, Renuka Singh

Australia: Alyssa Healy (capt, wk), Beth Mooney, Tahlia McGrath, Ellyse Perry, Ashleigh Gardner, Phoebe Litchfield, Grace Harris, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham , Megan Schutt, Kim Garth

Healy win the toss and elects to bowl first. 

Ellyse Perry becomes the first Australian woman to play 300 international matches. 

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India and Australia were scheduled to play a multiformat series featuring a one-off Test, a 3-match ODI series and a 3-match T20I series. 

Results:

India beat Australia in the one-off Test by eight wickets, their first victory over the Aussies in the history of women’s Tests and in their 11th attempt. Know more here.

Australia brushed the loss aside with an emphatic 3-0 sweep of the ODI series. While India ran the visitors close in the first two games, the third game saw Australia win by a mammoth 190 runs to cement their supremacy. Here are the results:

1st ODI: Australia beat India by six wickets

2nd ODI: Australia beat India by three runs

3rd ODI: Australia beat India by 190 runs

In the T20I leg, India got off to a dominant start, beating Australia by 9 wickets in the first T20I. The visitors looked hapless against a rare four-pronged seam attack from the Indians with Titas Sadhu hogging the limelight with her incredible four-wicket haul. 

The India Women vs Australia Women 2nd T20I match will be played on Sunday, January 7 at 7 pm IST. The India Women vs Australia Women 2nd T20I match will be telecast on the Sports18 Network in India. Live streaming of the match will be available on Jio Cinema in India.