Australia Women vs India Women, 3rd ODI, India Women tour of Australia, 2026 - Commentary

A fitting farewell for Alyssa Healy in the ODIs as her team cleanswept the World Champions 3-0. The Australian team will hope for the same in the longest format as well. Australia have taken an unassailable 8-4 lead in this multi-format series. On that note it's curtains down on this game. The pink-ball Test commences on Friday (6th March) and we'll be bringing you all the action. For now, it's goodbye from all of us down here

Harmanpreet Kaur: I think overall we didn't play good cricket. In T20, we were doing all the things right and in ODI, we didn't play good cricket. I think that that is something which cost us. ODI - it's a long game and you have to keep doing the right things again and again. I think we kept making too many mistakes. And credit goes to the Australian team also because they really played good cricket and they didn't give us a chance to bounce back. But I think a lot of learnings for us and definitely we will go back and think how we have to go about in the ODI cricket. (On the Test) Keeping everybody in good space of mind, I think that is something which is very important. I know we have very less time to prepare but I think now it's only about believing in yourself and keeping yourself in good frame of mind and doing the right things for the team.

Alyssa Healy | Player of the Match: (Which was more fun - scoring 158 or bowling a couple of overs?) Oh, bowling for sure. It didn't take much to get talked into either. I heard my name mentioned once and I said righto, but just to finish the ODI leg the way we did, makes me really proud. And looking forward to heading to the WACA now and get stuck into the pink ball. (A fairytale ending today?) I just think what a ridiculous sport we play that it can kick you down to so many times and then give you opportunities like it has today. I've hated every milestone match, so today was just an opportunity to go out and enjoy it.  And it was one of the more enjoyable experiences I've had. So thanks for the cricket gods for that. And yeah, that's a nice way to sign off in the yellow. (On her partnerships with Voll and Mooney) When you're standing at the other end and Georgia Voll's going really well ... took me a while to still feel like I was getting going. Beth Mooney has been outstanding, another hundred in the middle-order for our team. The future is bright for our team, I'm looking forward to watching them go about their business over the next couple of years leading into that next one-day World Cup. I think they're going to do some fantastic things yet again. (On handing the cap to Lucy Hamilton) I was honestly fine this morning and then when I was writing it all down and realizing probably what it means to debut and get that cap made me realize how special and how lucky I've been over the last 15 years to have done it as many times as I've had. So, that was a really special experience. She's got a really bright for the future ahead, I would have loved her to take a wicket tonight but to get a yellow cap, hopefully another 15 years in it, it was really special. (On the Test match) To put ourselves in a position, now we don't have to win, I think it's obviously a great sign for the series, but also we're going there to win. Pink ball at the WACA, we've never experienced that before. The WACA wicket has done some interesting things for us in Test cricket and white-ball cricket over the last few years. So, looking forward to seeing what conditions present. But any time this group gets to wear the baggy green is extra special. So I'm looking forward to doing that.

21:57 Local Time, 10:57 GMT, 16:27 IST: Plenty of smiles in the Australian camp and the players now exchange handshakes. A dominating performance from the home team. Inserted to bat, the Australians posted a mammoth score of 409 with two centurions and a half-centurion. Captain Alyssa Healy top-scored with a magnificent 158 in her farewell ODI, Georgia Voll continued from where she left in the previous ODI to raise a brisk fifty and then Beth Mooney notched up her ton in the final over of the innings. In reply, India lost Smriti for a duck in the second over. Coming in at three, Jemimah Rodrigues batted positively and aggressively from the word go as India scored 72 runs in the powerplay. However, things went downhill for the visitors quickly after the fall of Jemimah who was nipped out by Gardner. After slipping from 76/2 to 135/7, Deepti Sharma and Sneh Rana forged a fifty partnership at a slow pace that only delayed the inevitable. Alana King was the pick of the bowlers as she picked four wickets and then Georgia Wareham applied the finishing touches by removing the last two wickets.

Georgia Wareham to Shree Charani, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!

Georgia Wareham to Sneh Rana, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!