The Indian girls’s cricket workforce continued its good type in Test cricket as after humbling England by 347 runs final week, the Harmanpreet Kaur-led aspect was at it once more at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium on Thursday, December 21. Australian captain Alyssa Healy received the toss and selected to bat however the guests ran right into a raging Pooja Vastrakar, who seamed, wobbled and swung her technique to 4 wickets. India bowled out Australia for a paltry rating of 219 and tracked down 98 of these on the primary day itself.
The day started on an unlucky observe for the Australians with the run out of Phoebe Litchfield in the very first over. It did not take time for the hosts to get the second wicket, that too a giant one in every of Ellyse Perry as Vastrakar dismissed her with a corker of a supply that got here again in to shatter her stumps. Beth Mooney and the brand new vice-captain Tahlia McGrath stitched an 80-run stand for the third wicket and helped Australia get to a lot safer shores. McGrath accomplished her half-century however instantly after Sneh Rana removed her.
Mooney too acquired out after a number of overs as Vastrakar acquired her second. Captain Alyssa Healy scored 38 however could not keep for lengthy, which was the case for a lot of the Australian batters as most of them acquired begins however could not convert. Vastrakar broke Australian batting’s again with back-to-back wickets of Ash Gardner and Annabelle Sutherland to go away Australia tottering at 168/8. It appeared like Australia would fold under 200 earlier than Kim Garth held the fort on the finish to assist her aspect get to 219, which was nonetheless a really modest whole. Vastrakar completed with the figures of 4/53 whereas Sneh Rana picked up three.
Indian openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma got here out all weapons blazing as that they had a 90-run stand in simply 16.4 overs. It would have been an ideal day for India had the openers come out on the stumps unscathed, nonetheless, Shafali was trapped LBW by Jess Jonassen. Sneh was despatched because the evening watcher with Smriti unbeaten at 43. India shall be seeking to take a large first-innings lead towards the Aussies to bat them out of the sport.
