The ODI series in Australia proved to be very bad for the world champion Indian women’s cricket team and host Australia made a clean sweep of it 3-0 by defeating them in all three matches. In the last match of the series played in Hobart on Sunday, March 1, Australia scored a huge score of 409 runs and then bowled out Team India for just 224 runs and won the match by a huge margin of 185 runs. With this victory, Australian captain and veteran wicketkeeper-batsman Alyssa Healy ended her ODI career and while leaving she herself played a explosive inning of 158 runs.
Healy-Moonie’s explosive centuries
even before the series starts Alyssa Healy Had announced that this would be his last series and he created a stir in the last match. Batting first, Healy made a fast start for his team and took the team beyond 100 runs in 16 overs. He completed his half-century in 49 balls but after that he also completed his century in only 79 balls. After completing the century, her bat started spitting more fire and she returned to the pavilion after playing an innings of 158 runs in just 98 balls. During this period he hit 27 fours and 2 sixes.
Team India had not even recovered from Healy’s attack when Beth Mooney took charge and scored a brilliant century to take the team beyond 400 runs. Mooney returned unbeaten after scoring 106 runs, while Georgia Wall also scored 62 runs. In the end Nicola Carey scored 34 runs in just 15 balls. Sneh Rana was most effective for India, who took 2 wickets for 66 runs in 10 overs.
Batting flop for the third consecutive match
This target was never going to be easy for the Indian team, but even if Team India had some hope in this chase, it ended in the second over itself, when Smriti Mandhana was out without opening the account. After this, Pratika Rawal and Jemimah Rodrigues definitely made an aggressive partnership but after Pratika was out on the score of 62 runs, the wickets gradually started falling. Ultimately the entire team was all out for just 224 runs in 45.1 overs and Australia swept the ODI series.