Australian women’s team creates history, unbeaten record at Allan Border Field; Recorded 21st consecutive win

Australia Women’s Team: Australia women’s team has started the ODI series with a win. Australia women’s team won the first match of the ODI series played against India by 6 wickets on Tuesday. With this, the Australian women’s team has won its 21st consecutive match at Allan Border Field. The Australian women’s team has not yet suffered defeat in this ground.

The Australian women’s team played its first ODI match here on 7 February 1999, winning against South Africa by 100 runs. After this, Australia won 7 consecutive matches against New Zealand here from 2006 to 2011. On 22 October 2017, Australia faced England on the same ground, winning by 2 wickets.

After this, this team won 3 ODI matches against Sri Lanka in October 2019. Won three consecutive ODIs here against New Zealand in October 2020. The Australian women’s team won 2 ODI matches at this ground against Pakistan in January 2023, after which they won the same number of matches against India in December 2024. Now the host team has won the first match of the ODI series by 6 wickets on this ground.

condition of competition

Indian team, who came to bat first after winning the toss, had a bad start and lost three wickets for 52 runs. After this the captain Harmanpreet (53 runs, 84 balls) and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana (58 runs, 68 balls) handled the innings. Both of them made an important partnership for the fourth wicket and took the team towards a respectable score. Kashvi Gautam contributed 43 runs and Richa Ghosh contributed 23 runs. However, the Australian spinners created pressure in the middle overs. Gardner took three wickets for 33 runs in seven overs. Ultimately the Indian team was reduced to 214 runs in 48.3 overs.

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Australia won the match easily

Chasing the target of 215 runs, Australia got a solid start from Healy with 50 runs in 70 balls and Phoebe Litchfield. 55 runs were added for the first wicket. Lichfield returned to the pavilion after playing an innings of 32 runs. After this, Mooney played a brilliant inning of 76 runs in 79 balls, which included five fours and two sixes. Mooney and Annabel Sutherland (48 not out) made a partnership of 85 runs for the fourth wicket and put the match completely in Australia’s bag. The team achieved the target by scoring 217 runs for four wickets in 38.2 overs. Shri Charani took two wickets for India.