Smriti Mandhana celebrates her century throughout the third ODI towards Australian girls in New Delhi on September 20, 2025.
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Two beautiful innings, on both facet of the interval on a mad Saturday (September 20, 2025), offered the very best commercial for the upcoming girls’s ODI World Cup.
Beth Mooney’s 75-ball 138 (23×4, 1×6) had nearly sealed a series-clinching victory for Australia towards India on the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Australia had made 412, 110 runs greater than the goal set in the very best profitable chase in girls’s ODIs. The Indians fell brief by 43 runs
But, for the primary 20 overs of the Indian innings, the unattainable regarded potential. Smriti Mandhana batted as if she was in a dream. She had made 58 and 117 in the final two matches and had regarded pretty whereas making these runs.
On this evening, she was lovelier.
Australia’s Beth Mooney celebrates her century throughout the third ODI cricket match towards Indian girls in New Delhi on September 20, 2025.
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The left-handed stylist charmed the gang with a panoramic show of photographs. She discovered her contact straightaway, and her bat quickly started to look extra like a magical wand, as she got here up with one attractive shot one after the opposite.
The Australians have been dazed.
At the top of the 20 overs, the host was 204 for 2. With skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (52, 35b, 8×4) lastly discovering her type, the Indians, showing in pink for the primary time, have been threatening to make historical past in extra methods than one.
Smriti’s hundred got here off 50 balls. Only former Australian captain Meg Lanning has made a sooner century in girls’s ODIs — off 45 balls.
Harmanpreet was trapped in entrance by Kim Garth, bringing to finish the 121-run stand for the third wicket. In the very subsequent over, the vice-captain adopted the captain to the dressing room: Smriti, attempting to drag a full toss, was caught at deep square-leg off Grace Harris.
After the setbacks, Deepti Sharma (72, 58b, 5×4, 2×6) waged a courageous battle, however the goal was too daunting.
In the afternoon, Mooney performed the star function in Australia’s spectacular batting present. And she was a girl in a rush. She had come into this match with a strike-rate of practically 86, however in this innings she struck at 184.
After captain Alyssa Healy (30, 18b, 7×4) fell to Kranti Goud for the third time in the sequence, fellow-opener Georgia Voll (81, 68b, 14×4), Ellyse Perry (68, 72b, 7×4, 2×6) and Gardner (39, 24b, 5×4, 1×6) all went after the Indian bowlers, who had known as the photographs in the second ODI at New Chandigarh.
So the Aussies have maintained their unbeaten document in bilateral sequence towards India, relationship again to 1984.
Published – September 20, 2025 02:41 pm IST