MUMBAI: The Indian girls’s group couldn’t have began 2024 on a worse word. Placing out their worst bowling, fielding and batting show in alongside, very long time, India, enduring a nightmarish time in opposition to a mighty facet, suffered a humiliating 190-run thrashing by the hands of a relentless Australia within the third and last girls’s ODI on the Wankhede Stadium on Tuesday evening.
Greater than the 3-0 sequence defeat, what ought to fear India-with two World Cups within the subsequent two years- is their abysmal fielding commonplace, which is gentle years behind Australia, the No. 1 group within the recreation by far.
Two moments watching Australia’s sharp, athletic fielding stood out in full distinction to what one noticed within the afternoon, when India struggled to even cease the ball, not to mention catch it.
Australia’s Phoebe Litchfield just about flew to her proper at cowl to tug off a stunner to ship India’s Amanjot Kaur again to the pavilion. Just a few balls later, Tahila McGrath leapt excessive within the air to pluck out a catch to dismiss Shreyanka Patil off Annabel Sutherland.
Earlier than they avenged their maiden defeat within the one-off Check in opposition to India at this venue with a clear sweep in opposition to the identical opponents, the Aussies signed off with one other second of magic-as leg-spinner Alana King introduced again the recollections of her idol, spin wizard Shane Warne, by cleansing up Pooja Vastrakar’s stumps with one which pitched outdoors leg stump and turned viciously to hit the highest of off stump.
Powered by an excellent century by the Australian girls’s cricket’s new sensation Phoebe Litchfield, who cracked a career-best 119 (125b, 16×4, 1×6) and her document 189-run opening stand off simply 173 balls with skipper Alyssa Healy (82, 85b, 4×4, 3×6), Australia raced away to an enormous 338 for seven in 50 overs in opposition to a hapless India after electing to bat first. Surrendering with the bat, India had been shot out for simply 148 in merely 32.4 overs.
To finish a forgettable sequence for her, Indian girls’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur was out caught whereas paddle sweeping leggie Georgia Wareham for simply three-her earlier scores on this sequence had been 9 and 5. In what has been a depressing residence season for her personally, Kaur has logged six single digit scores.
Australia bettered their very own previous-highest WODI whole in opposition to India of 332 for seven in March 2018 at Vadodara, whereas Litchfield and Healy strung collectively the most important partnership for any wicket in opposition to India on this format. It was clear that with the sequence within the bag 2-0, the Aussies had been in a temper to make merry on their first ‘working day’ this 12 months!
For some time after they managed to get the opening breakthrough when Healy was bowled making an attempt to tug Pooja Vastarkar, the hosts bounced again, taking 4 wickets within the area of 27 runs as off-spinner Shreyanka Patil (3-57 in 10 overs), taking part in simply her second ODI, put in one other spectacular efficiency, trapping Beth Mooney (3) and Aussie vice-captain Tahlia McGrath (0) lbw to be on a hat-trick within the thirty sixth over.
Nonetheless, as has been the norm, Australia’s ever-wagging tail got here to the social gathering, with No 9 Alana King, who blasted a decisive 39 not out off 26 balls together with three sixes within the final match, as soon as once more hurting India’s assault within the slog together with her fireworks- careening 26 not out off 15 balls this time- in a cameo which included three sixes and a 4.
Additionally chipping in with helpful scores had been Ashleigh Gardner (30, 27b, 4×4), Annabel Sutherland (23 off 21 balls) and Georgia Wareham (11 not out off 8 balls). Few teams-in both the ladies’s and males’s game-can boast of a ‘tail’ as thick and as steely as that of the Australian girls’s group!
India’s woeful fielding, which precipitated them to drop seven catches within the final ODI, continued to be on a downward spiral. Unusually, one of many chief ‘culprits’ on this space within the sequence has been Smriti Mandhana, usually a protected fielder. Within the thirty second over, the Indian vice-captain dropped a sitter that Elysse Perry, batting on 10, had supplied at deep mid-wicket off Deepti Sharma. Fortunately, the lapse didn’t show too costly as Perry (16) was rapped on the pads lbw by medium-pacer Amanjot Kaur within the subsequent over.
Deepti herself had dropped a barely more durable likelihood at backward level to let off Litchfield within the nineteenth over off Amanjot. Apart from the drops, it was India’s shoddy floor fielding- just a few occasions the fielders, for some purpose struggling to cease the ball not to mention catch it, conceded a boundary once they might have simply stopped the ball-that actually made for ugly viewing. To make it worse, India conceded 28 extras, together with 20 wides, which meant that from over No 48, they might solely maintain three fielders outdoors the circle.
Paradoxically, the in-form Litchfield’s India tour, which is changing into particular by the day, started on an unlucky word as she was run out with out going through a ball within the first innings within the one-off girls’s Check on the Wankhede, however the 20-year-old left-hander as come into her personal within the ODIs, cracking 63 & 78 earlier than slamming her second century on this format on Tuesday. The opener from New South Wales drives and cuts the pacers properly, and makes use of her toes and the reverse sweep -she reached her third fifty (off 50 balls) on the trot within the sequence with that shot off Deepti-to dominate the spinners.
Healy, in the meantime, shrugged off a foul patch that had seen her go with out a fifty in eight ODI innings.
Resting off-spinning all-rounder Sneh Rana, India gave an ODI debut cap to younger left-arm spinner Mannat Kashyap. The concept, nonetheless, turned disastrous as Mannat, pounded by Litchfield and Healy, conceded 0-30 off her three overs. Each India’s main pacers Renuka Singh Thakur (0-52 in 7 overs) and Vastrakar (1-68 in 10 overs) appeared drained after having bowled a good quantity of overs in Mumbai’s warmth in India’s busy residence season. Deepti turned the fourth Indian lady bowler to take 100 ODI wickets when Litchfield was lastly out, edging a slog-sweep that was neatly pouched by India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur at cowl, however the beleaguered hosts had too little to have fun on a depressing day.
Greater than the 3-0 sequence defeat, what ought to fear India-with two World Cups within the subsequent two years- is their abysmal fielding commonplace, which is gentle years behind Australia, the No. 1 group within the recreation by far.
Two moments watching Australia’s sharp, athletic fielding stood out in full distinction to what one noticed within the afternoon, when India struggled to even cease the ball, not to mention catch it.
Australia’s Phoebe Litchfield just about flew to her proper at cowl to tug off a stunner to ship India’s Amanjot Kaur again to the pavilion. Just a few balls later, Tahila McGrath leapt excessive within the air to pluck out a catch to dismiss Shreyanka Patil off Annabel Sutherland.
Earlier than they avenged their maiden defeat within the one-off Check in opposition to India at this venue with a clear sweep in opposition to the identical opponents, the Aussies signed off with one other second of magic-as leg-spinner Alana King introduced again the recollections of her idol, spin wizard Shane Warne, by cleansing up Pooja Vastrakar’s stumps with one which pitched outdoors leg stump and turned viciously to hit the highest of off stump.
Powered by an excellent century by the Australian girls’s cricket’s new sensation Phoebe Litchfield, who cracked a career-best 119 (125b, 16×4, 1×6) and her document 189-run opening stand off simply 173 balls with skipper Alyssa Healy (82, 85b, 4×4, 3×6), Australia raced away to an enormous 338 for seven in 50 overs in opposition to a hapless India after electing to bat first. Surrendering with the bat, India had been shot out for simply 148 in merely 32.4 overs.
To finish a forgettable sequence for her, Indian girls’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur was out caught whereas paddle sweeping leggie Georgia Wareham for simply three-her earlier scores on this sequence had been 9 and 5. In what has been a depressing residence season for her personally, Kaur has logged six single digit scores.
Australia bettered their very own previous-highest WODI whole in opposition to India of 332 for seven in March 2018 at Vadodara, whereas Litchfield and Healy strung collectively the most important partnership for any wicket in opposition to India on this format. It was clear that with the sequence within the bag 2-0, the Aussies had been in a temper to make merry on their first ‘working day’ this 12 months!
For some time after they managed to get the opening breakthrough when Healy was bowled making an attempt to tug Pooja Vastarkar, the hosts bounced again, taking 4 wickets within the area of 27 runs as off-spinner Shreyanka Patil (3-57 in 10 overs), taking part in simply her second ODI, put in one other spectacular efficiency, trapping Beth Mooney (3) and Aussie vice-captain Tahlia McGrath (0) lbw to be on a hat-trick within the thirty sixth over.
Nonetheless, as has been the norm, Australia’s ever-wagging tail got here to the social gathering, with No 9 Alana King, who blasted a decisive 39 not out off 26 balls together with three sixes within the final match, as soon as once more hurting India’s assault within the slog together with her fireworks- careening 26 not out off 15 balls this time- in a cameo which included three sixes and a 4.
Additionally chipping in with helpful scores had been Ashleigh Gardner (30, 27b, 4×4), Annabel Sutherland (23 off 21 balls) and Georgia Wareham (11 not out off 8 balls). Few teams-in both the ladies’s and males’s game-can boast of a ‘tail’ as thick and as steely as that of the Australian girls’s group!
India’s woeful fielding, which precipitated them to drop seven catches within the final ODI, continued to be on a downward spiral. Unusually, one of many chief ‘culprits’ on this space within the sequence has been Smriti Mandhana, usually a protected fielder. Within the thirty second over, the Indian vice-captain dropped a sitter that Elysse Perry, batting on 10, had supplied at deep mid-wicket off Deepti Sharma. Fortunately, the lapse didn’t show too costly as Perry (16) was rapped on the pads lbw by medium-pacer Amanjot Kaur within the subsequent over.
Deepti herself had dropped a barely more durable likelihood at backward level to let off Litchfield within the nineteenth over off Amanjot. Apart from the drops, it was India’s shoddy floor fielding- just a few occasions the fielders, for some purpose struggling to cease the ball not to mention catch it, conceded a boundary once they might have simply stopped the ball-that actually made for ugly viewing. To make it worse, India conceded 28 extras, together with 20 wides, which meant that from over No 48, they might solely maintain three fielders outdoors the circle.
Paradoxically, the in-form Litchfield’s India tour, which is changing into particular by the day, started on an unlucky word as she was run out with out going through a ball within the first innings within the one-off girls’s Check on the Wankhede, however the 20-year-old left-hander as come into her personal within the ODIs, cracking 63 & 78 earlier than slamming her second century on this format on Tuesday. The opener from New South Wales drives and cuts the pacers properly, and makes use of her toes and the reverse sweep -she reached her third fifty (off 50 balls) on the trot within the sequence with that shot off Deepti-to dominate the spinners.
Healy, in the meantime, shrugged off a foul patch that had seen her go with out a fifty in eight ODI innings.
Resting off-spinning all-rounder Sneh Rana, India gave an ODI debut cap to younger left-arm spinner Mannat Kashyap. The concept, nonetheless, turned disastrous as Mannat, pounded by Litchfield and Healy, conceded 0-30 off her three overs. Each India’s main pacers Renuka Singh Thakur (0-52 in 7 overs) and Vastrakar (1-68 in 10 overs) appeared drained after having bowled a good quantity of overs in Mumbai’s warmth in India’s busy residence season. Deepti turned the fourth Indian lady bowler to take 100 ODI wickets when Litchfield was lastly out, edging a slog-sweep that was neatly pouched by India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur at cowl, however the beleaguered hosts had too little to have fun on a depressing day.
