India Women vs Australia Women, 13th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

India suffer two losses on the bounce and next face England who are undefeated. Doesn't get any easier. Australia now lead the table despite a washout. They were tested today but came out on top. On that note, we sign off. We will be back tomorrow for more World Cup action. See you then. For now it's bye bye.

Alyssa Healy | Australia captain: We'll take those two points, to chase down 330 in a 50-over game for us. It's new territory, so I'm glad that we've got the confidence to do that now, and hopefully we don't have to do it again. But if we do, then we know we can do it. You I don't think there were changes necessarily (at the top of the order). Our top order felt like we needed to contribute a little bit more. I think the trend of the tournament has been a few little early collapses, and it's putting teams under pressure. But the opportunity today for us, knowing that we get to chase a big total, I think getting off to a good start was crucial. Litchfield takes a lot of pressure off me, and you'll think we're chilled out on the other end knowing what she does. We just sort of locked in and got ourselves off to a good start, and we were able to just maintain that run rate right the way through, which is cool. She (Sutherland) is, and I think she's probably the pick of our bowlers from a length of perspective. I think she identified the length that she needed to bowl and executed beautifully. The way that we hung in there and ultimately restricted them to 330, which sounds a little bit stupid, but I think we pegged them right back in the last ten overs. I think the fact that we can hang in there and do that will give us great confidence. Yeah, 100 per cent (Gardner's maturity). To hang in there, partnerships are key. It's something we've been lacking probably in the first couple of games. So the fact that each person that came in was able to build a little partnership, and the fact that we can have a significant one and be there somewhat at the end. Ash played beautifully today and ultimately got most of the job done, which was awesome. I hope so (everyone is fit). I mean, the cramp worm's going around our group at the moment, but we've got a couple of days off here in Vizag, so hopefully we can rest, recover and enjoy the town.

Harmanpreet Kaur | India captain: Today the way we started we could have got 30-40 runs, we kept losing wickets in the last 6-7 overs, it was a good batting wicket and we didn't capitalise. They have been really outstanding for us from the last few games. They (opening batters) have been giving us a very good start and because of that we are able to post such totals. We did well but I think the last 5 overs cost us. The last three games we were not able to bat in the middle overs, the lower order took the responsibility and they did the job for us. But today I think the first 40 overs were really good and the last 10 overs we were not executing that well. So I think in a game these things are going to happen. You are not going to be 100% all the time but it's very important how you come back. The next two games are very important and I think there are a lot of positives from this game. She (Charani) has been outstanding. She's always there whenever the team needs her. And today also she bowled really well. To all their batters, even when Healy was batting, she was not giving her anything easily. So we have a lot of hope from her. Whenever she's there she can keep giving us breakthroughs. We'll sit and discuss (about the team combination). Because this combination has given us a lot of success in the past. I think two bad games are not going to make a big difference for us, going forward a lot of things we need to work it out. Hopefully we'll come up with the best approach.

Alyssa Healy | Player of the Match: Really proud of the group to pull ourselves over the line there. I think I was a little bit tired at the back end, but like I said, I kept preaching about the depth that we've got in our line-up and the fact that we can chase down 330, but full credit to our bowlers as well for pulling that back in at the back end. I think we could have been chasing 360 plus, so good job all around and we'll take the two points. Obviously proud personally to be able to do that. I was trying to lock in for a big day. I know there was a bit of pressure on my top order, but to be out there and contribute heavily was great. Would have liked to be out there a little bit longer and sort of see it home, but the girls got the job done, which is good. I think about eight overs in, I said, oh God, what have I done? I thought we were chasing 380 at one point, but yeah, it (keeping) does help. We knew it was going to be a good wicket. The dew didn't look like it came in at all, but it still skidded on under lights, which we knew we could do. We just played down the ground and we did just that and hopefully, luckily got the job done. Charani bowled really well tonight and I think that's probably something we haven't done quite well thus far is identifying the threat. She bowled really well and was a real threat. So, limiting her damage to an extent and try and attack some of the other bowlers, I think, was really key. So, we did really well adapting to that. But yeah, if that's the way they want to play, then so be it. They've got five quality options.

Highest target successfully chased in Women’s ODIs
331 - AUS vs INDW, Vizag, 2025 WC*
302 - SLW vs SAW, Potchefstroom, 2024
289 - AUSW vs NZW, North Sydney, 2012
283 - AUSW vs INDW, Wankhede, 2023
282 - AUSW vs INDW, New Chandigarh, 2025
The previous highest successful chase in the World Cups was 278 runs by Australia itself against India at Auckland in the 2022 edition.

- 13 sixes scored in this match is also the most sixes hit in a World Cup match.

- 331 runs by Australia is the second-highest total while chasing in Women's ODIs, after 369 runs by India against Australia in Delhi last month.

- 661 runs were scored across the two innings in this game, the third-highest match aggregate in a Women's ODI behind 781 runs by these same two teams at Delhi last month and 678 runs between Australia and South Africa in Bristol in the 2017 World Cup.

22:28 Local Time, 16:58 GMT, 22:28 IST: Australia win it with an over to spare. The highest successful chase in ODI history. Set up by Healy's magnificent 142 with contributions from Litchfield, Perry and Gardner. Perry retired hurt but came back to help her side who wobbled a bit in the chase. The openers put on 85 quickly and then there was another stand between Healy and Perry. India fought back after Perry's retirement with wickets but Healy kept calm. She brought up a fine 100 and then upped the rate after that with attacking batting. Her dismissal sparked a turnaround with Amanjot snapping up Gardner and Molineux off successive balls but the calmness of Perry and Kim Garth saw Australia through. India fielded brilliantly but just did not have the bowling to stop this strong Australian lineup. Stay tuned for the post-match stuff...

A chat between Kim Garth and Perry.