- The Indian women’s team faced a humiliating defeat in the first match of the three-match ODI series (IND vs AUS) against Australia. The two teams faced each other at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane.
The Indian women’s team had to face a humiliating defeat in the first match of the three-match ODI series (IND vs AUS) against Australia. The two teams faced each other at Brisbane’s Allan Border Field. After winning the toss and batting first, the Harmanpreet Kaur-led team set a target of 101 runs. In response, Australia (IND vs AUS) scored 102 runs on the scoreboard in just 98 balls and won by five wickets.
India’s batting order flopped badly
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After winning the toss, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur decided to bat first, which proved wrong for the team. No player could even touch the 25-run mark. The team lost opener Priya Punia as its first wicket. She was able to score just 3 runs in 17 balls. After this, India’s wickets started falling. Smriti Mandhana returned to the pavilion after scoring 8 runs. Harleen Deol scored 19 runs in 34 balls. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored 17 runs. After four wickets fell at the score of 62 runs, Jemima Rodrigues tried to handle the innings along with Richa Ghosh.
Megan Schutt became a nightmare for Team India
Jemima Rodrigues and Richa Ghosh played an important role in taking India’s (IND vs AUS) score to 100 by sharing 27 runs. Australian bowler Megan Schutt proved to be a nightmare for the Indian batsmen. She took five wickets in 6.2 overs while conceding 19 runs. She took the wickets of Smriti Mandhana (8), Priya Punia (3), Richa Ghosh (14), Saima Thakor (4) and Priya Mishra (0). Kim Garth, Ashleigh Gardner, Annabel Sutherland and Alana King took one wicket each. Jemima Rodrigues was the highest run scorer for India. She scored 23 runs in 42 balls.
Team India faced a shameful defeat
Australia (IND vs AUS), which came to achieve the given target, scored 102 runs in 16.2 overs, due to which they won by 5 wickets. Opener Phoebe Litchfield tried to give the team a good start by scoring 35 runs. But Renuka Singh tried to push Australia on the backfoot by taking her wicket.
During this time, Phoebe Litchfield shared a 48-run partnership for the first wicket with Georgia Wall. After this, the team kept losing wickets at regular intervals. However, Georgia Wall stood at one end and took charge and played an unbeaten innings of 46 runs to take the team across the threshold of victory. Priya Mishra took two wickets for India.