- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR2.4 skied straight up and Mandhana takes it at cover! Full, shaping across, Mooney tries to loft against the shape and gets a leading edge that flies straight up and Mandhana takes a simple catch 22/13.2 caught behind! Back of a length, hint of shape in, fourth stump, too tight to cut, she got a thin edge and an easy catch for Richa Ghosh 27/29.1 top edge straight up! Ghosh pouches it. Back of a length, on off, she tries to pull through forward square, gets a top edge that flies straight up and Ghosh settles under it. Simple catch 80/57.2 brilliant catch from Harmanpreet! Full outside off, she tries to loft over mid-off and mistimes it, Harmanpreet runs back with the flight from the circle and takes an excellent diving catch 68/38.4 chipped to midwicket! Lovely bowling. Flighted slower outside off, Gardner skips down and is beaten in flight and just chips an offbreak meekly straight to midwicket. Simple catch 78/413.5 full toss miscued to cover! Misses out on a freebie. She was falling away outside leg trying to clear the ring on the offside and miscues completely straight to cover 121/614.2 clean bowled! Nicely bowled. Faster and flatter, Carey backs away to the wrong length trying to cut and is beaten for pace as it crashes into off 121/715.4 stumped! Outstanding keeping! Full, shaping away, Sutherland tries to drive to long-on and is beaten. She overbalances and Ghosh was so clean and sharp to remove the bails. Sutherland walked straight off and didn't even wait for the TV check 127/816.4 top edge to short fine! Short on leg, she tries to pull and gets a top edge off the toe and it floats to short fine 130/917.6 clean bowled! Superb legcutter! Reddy has four. Angled into middle and off, it nips away a touch past the edge, Brown is legside and beaten as it crashes into the top of off 133/10Extras6 (lb 1, w 5)TOTAL133 all out (18 Overs, RR: 7.38)Fall of wickets: 1-22 (Beth Mooney, 2.4 ov), 2-27 (Georgia Voll, 3.2 ov), 3-68 (Ellyse Perry, 7.2 ov), 4-78 (Ashleigh Gardner, 8.4 ov), 5-80 (Phoebe Litchfield, 9.1 ov), 6-121 (Georgia Wareham, 13.5 ov), 7-121 (Nicola Carey, 14.2 ov), 8-127 (Annabel Sutherland, 15.4 ov), 9-130 (Kim Garth, 16.4 ov), 10-133 (Darcie Brown, 17.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Renuka Singh 4 1 14 2 3.5 18 2 0 1 0 K Gaud 3 0 39 1 13 4 7 0 3 0 SR Patil 2 0 24 0 12 2 4 0 0 0 A Reddy 4 0 22 4 5.5 12 2 0 0 0 DB Sharma 2 0 19 1 9.5 1 2 0 1 0 N Shree Charani 3 0 14 2 4.66 8 1 0 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR4.1 straight to deep midwicket! Verma backs away, Molineux follows and cramps her, she pulls in the air but straight to deep midwicket and Wareham takes the catch 33/1Extras4 (w 4)TOTAL50/1 (5.1 Overs, RR: 9.67)Fall of wickets: 1-33 (Shafali Verma, 4.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB D Brown 2 0 10 0 5 6 0 0 2 0 KJ Garth 1.1 0 12 0 10.28 3 1 1 0 0 NJ Carey 1 0 15 0 15 1 1 1 2 0 S Molineux 1 0 13 1 13 2 3 0 0 0
Match Details
Toss
India Women , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Series result
India Women led the 3-match series 1-0
Match number
Season
Match days
15 February 2026 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Match Notes
- Rain: Australia Women - 0/0
- Wet Ground: Australia Women - 0/0
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 49 runs, 2 wickets)
- Over 1.1: Review by India Women (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - PJ Gillespie, Batter - G Voll (Struck down)
- Australia Women: 50 runs in 6.0 overs (36 balls), Extras 5
- Drinks: Australia Women - 80/5 in 9.1 overs (G Wareham 1)
- Australia Women: 100 runs in 11.5 overs (71 balls), Extras 6
- Innings Break: Australia Women - 133/10 in 18.0 overs (S Molineux 6)
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory)
- India Women: 50 runs in 5.1 overs (31 balls), Extras 4
- Rain: India Women - 50/1 in 5.1 overs (S Mandhana 16, JI Rodrigues 9)
Match Coverage
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Confident India provide Molineux with tough start
The winner will be decided by the points system across the multi-format series which features three T20Is, three ODIs and a day-night Test
Molineux's T20 vision for reclaiming World Cup trophies
The allrounder does not see the need for mass changes in the Australia side as they build to the T20 World Cup



