Player of the Match
Player of the Match

Australia win by five wickets to secure the ODI series and take a 6-4 lead in the multi-format series. That was a statement run chase from the home side. Did it at a canter despite those late wickets. Powerful century from Georgia Voll and some classy strokeplay by Phoebe Litchfield. India a long way short of them in these last two matches.

Hypocaust: "It's now 39 years since Australia women lost a bilateral ODI series on home soil (their last and so far only defeat at home was against New Zealand in 1987). This has to stand as one of the most extraordinary records in the history of the sport, and deserves to be much more widely known and celebrated."

Georgia Voll is player of the match: "Nice to get over the line, thought Phobes was outstanding and made my life easy. We keep things pretty simple, she was smashing them down the other end and I took a little while to get in, then I could expand my game. Complement each other quite well."

Harmanpreet Kaur "Definitely we didn't bat well today...we wanted 300 on the board. Again we make the same mistakes and losing wickets and we were short of a lot of runs. No matter batting first or second, we have to bat really well. In last two games we didn't bat well and that's cost us. Hopefully in the next game we do that."

Alyssa Healy "I'm really pumped with that result. Like I said the other night, I was ecstatic with the way that we went about that chase and to do it again tonight, even better, I thought was outstanding so pretty pleased with that. It was one of those weird ones where I felt like they were well short of a par score [when didn't take early wickets], but at the same time it was frustrating for us. It felt like we could have got them out a little bit earlier, but to keep them to 250 on that sort of wicket was an outstanding effort from our group and we felt pretty well ahead of the halfway mark. We just had to get it done."

That wraps things up for tonight. Australia hitting their stride in the 50-over element of this series. Victory for the home side on Sunday would mean the best India could do would be a share of the overall series with a Test win. We'll be back for that match in a couple of days, which is again in Hobart, but for now, from Gnasher and Alex, it's goodbye.

36.1
4
Shree Charani to Gardner, FOUR, and that's that! Uses her feet, drives inside out through the covers. Super shot to finish with

END OF OVER:
36 | 3 Runs 1 Wkt | AUS-W: 248/5 (4 runs required from 14 overs, RR: 6.88, RRR: 0.28)

  • Tahlia McGrath0 (3b)
  • Ashleigh Gardner15 (13b)
  • Deepti Sharma5-0-32-2
  • Shree Charani4-0-37-0
35.6
0
Sharma to McGrath, no run, on the pads, worked into the on side, doesn't find the gap
35.5
0
Sharma to McGrath, no run, strides forward, defends to the off side
35.4
0
Sharma to McGrath, no run, full at middle, clipped into midwicket

Slip in place. McGrath probably wishing she didn't have to bat

Akshay J: "Lots of very fair criticism of India on commentary there. Absolutely no pressure put on the two batsmen who have not batted much this series. "

35.3
W
Sharma to Sutherland, OUT, full outside, slices across the lofted drive, and it's taken by mid-off tracking back...Sutherland trying to finish it in one blow

A Sutherland c sub (H Deol) b Sharma 10 (21m 12b 0x4 0x6) SR: 83.33

35.2
2
Sharma to Sutherland, 2 runs, walks across the crease and scoops over the keeper
35.1
1
Sharma to Gardner, 1 run, round the wicket, flicked to long-on

Shadow-Shell: "Good thing from Indian perspective is that there's a T20 World Cup coming in 3 months while ODI World Cup is 3 years away"

END OF OVER:
35 | 6 Runs | AUS-W: 245/4 (7 runs required from 15 overs, RR: 7.00, RRR: 0.46)

  • Ashleigh Gardner14 (12b)
  • Annabel Sutherland8 (10b)
  • Shree Charani4-0-37-0
  • Deepti Sharma4-0-29-1

Elyse Villani, on Channel 7, very critical of Harmanpreet's tactics in not even trying to build some pressure after those two wickets

34.6
1
Shree Charani to Gardner, 1 run, drives off the back foot through the covers
34.5
2
Shree Charani to Gardner, 2 runs, short of a length, whipped through midwicket, nicely placed
34.4
1
Shree Charani to Sutherland, 1 run, opens the face and punches to the cover sweeper
34.3
1
Shree Charani to Gardner, 1 run, strides forward and drives through the off side
34.2
1
Shree Charani to Sutherland, 1 run, steps back outside leg, square drives to deep cover
34.1
0
Shree Charani to Sutherland, no run, round the wicket, full outside off, driven to cover

Manoj: "Even though India won the T20 series against Aus, they have a long way to go to match Australia in terms of their intent and game" - They've certainly been disappointing in these two games. Playing away from home a different challenge, too

Raji: "You never know what to expect from this Aussie side anymore. Just when you think they're ready to dominate the cricket world like they did in the last decade, they start losing left, right, and center. And then out of nowhere, they bounce back and play like they're absolutely unbeatable. Crazy." - Not sure they've been losing "left, right and center"!

END OF OVER:
34 | 5 Runs | AUS-W: 239/4 (13 runs required from 16 overs, RR: 7.02, RRR: 0.81)

  • Ashleigh Gardner10 (9b)
  • Annabel Sutherland6 (7b)
  • Deepti Sharma4-0-29-1
  • Amanjot Kaur6-0-42-0

And they'll take drinks with 13 needed...because, cricket

33.6
0
Sharma to Gardner, no run, off the pads into midwicket, finds the fielder this time
33.5
2
Sharma to Gardner, 2 runs, round the wicket, goes back and across, deep in the crease, knocked into midwicket and more excellent running

Amey: "India need a double hattrick right now."

33.4
1
Sharma to Sutherland, 1 run, full and straight, eased down the ground
33.3
1
Sharma to Gardner, 1 run, advances down the pitch and works this off the pads to deep midwicket
33.2
0
Sharma to Gardner, no run, fired in full, dug out to mid-off
33.1
1
Sharma to Sutherland, 1 run, gets to this on the full and drives straight down the ground

END OF OVER:
33 | 9 Runs | AUS-W: 234/4 (18 runs required from 17 overs, RR: 7.09, RRR: 1.05)

  • Ashleigh Gardner7 (5b)
  • Annabel Sutherland4 (5b)
  • Amanjot Kaur6-0-42-0
  • Deepti Sharma3-0-24-1
32.6
2
AB Kaur to Gardner, 2 runs, back of a length at off stump, angled through backward point

AUS Women 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st21AJ HealyP Litchfield
2nd119P LitchfieldG Voll
3rd82BL MooneyG Voll
4th1BL MooneyA Sutherland
5th25A GardnerA Sutherland
6th4TM McGrathA Gardner