The only test match of Indian women vs Australian women is continuing again tomorrow, and on this first day, the Indian women's team played very well. They are all out to the Australia women's team in just one day restricting them to 219 runs. Indian bowlers played very well. Pooja Vastrakar took four wickets of batsmen Perry, Mooney, Sutherland, and last Gardner. What a game performance by her.
She is one of the best players on the Indian women's team. Sneh Rana took three wickets of best-to-best batsmen of the Australian women's team. Deepti Sharma took two wickets of Healy and Jonassen.
India should be able to win this test match. They are trailing by just 121 runs, with 9 wickets in hand. As expected, the Indian spinners had a lot of success against the England women (Sneh Rana and Deepti Sharma). But then it was the pacer Pooja Vastrakar who topped the wicket taking chart for India. Australian lineup was very experienced and even then they collapsed for just 219 runs. And in return, India started their innings very confidently. Kim Garth and Ellyse Perry went for a total of 65 runs in their 8 overs. But then towards the end of day's play Shafali Verma got out.
India women team are holding the grip of this test match strongly and have scored 213 runs with only 3 wickets down.
This means that they will be almost equal to the Australian women first innings target of 219 runs and yet they will have 7 wickets in hand to take the lead. I guess, since we are in the Day 02 of this test match, Indian women can take the lead of 200+ and can surely win this only Test Match between these two teams.
Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana made an opening partnership of 90 runs and from that point onwards, it is all Indian batting dominating the Australian bowling.
From Australia, Ashleigh Gardner and Jess Jonassen took one wicket each. Not much special from the Australian bowlers too. They just failed just like their batswomen.