Australia’s all-conquering ladies’s crew have lastly misplaced a global – nevertheless it took a blinding Super Over by India’s massive hitters to consign them to a primary defeat in 2022.
Their second T20 worldwide in Mumbai on Sunday went to the additional over after an exciting tie which featured India’s Devika Vaidya hitting a 4 off the ultimate ball of the regulation 20 overs to degree the scores in entrance of an ecstatic full-house of 45,238.
Taking benefit of their nice escape, India’s energy gamers Richa Ghosh and participant of the match Smriti Mandhana then each smashed sixes off T20I debutant Heather Graham in a Super Over that acquired clattered for 20 runs.
In response, Australia’s batters, headed by captain Alyssa Healy’s 15 off 5 balls, fell 4 runs quick after mustering 16 in complete.
After 21 victories over a triumphant 12 months, it was an agonising first defeat for the brand new Aussie skipper, whose world champions had appeared set to win once more after a masterful record-breaking stand between their ‘M&M’ combo – Beth Mooney and Tahlia McGrath.
But Healy recognised that the game had ended up as the actual winner after one of many nice ladies’s white-ball matches.
“I mean, what a game of cricket that was and what a showcase of fearless cricket that is over here in India and for thousands of people to be able to witness this is pretty special,” mentioned Healy.
“I thought we did well to be in that game. India were all over us right throughout that chase. The fact that we hung in there, took it to Super Over, we can be pretty proud of that.”
Put in to bat, the guests amassed a formidable 1-187 with Mooney (82no) and McGrath (70no), who’d guided them to a nine-wicket win within the first match with an unbroken stand of 100, this time placing on an unbeaten 158 for the second wicket, an Australian document for any wicket in a T20I.
It perceived to be too excessive a mountain for the Indian batters however, making the most of the lightning-fast outfield and quick boundaries, opener Mandhana crashed 79 off 49 balls earlier than Ghosh muscled three late sixes to repeatedly maintain them within the hunt.
Needing an unlikely 14 to win off the final over, Vaidya then stepped up as the house aspect’s hero, thick-edging the second ball for 4 and slicing the final ball from Megan Schutt over backward level to earn the boundary that levelled the scores at 5-187 and despatched the packed crowd within the D.Y. Patil Stadium, attracted by the free entry provide, into ecstatic celebration mode.
They grew to become much more animated in ‘additional time’ when Graham acquired whacked over long-on for six by Ghosh within the first ball of the Super Over. Even although she departed subsequent ball, Mandhana took over to hit 4, 6 and three off the final three.
It was laborious on Graham, who’d earlier been Australia’s finest performer with the ball, taking 3-22 off her 4 overs because the Indians went for broke – however a goal of 21 was an excessive amount of for the Aussies as soon as Healy’s accomplice Ashleigh Gardner was caught within the deep off Renuka Singh first ball and McGrath might solely muster a single.
Healy hit the final two balls for 4 and 6 nevertheless it was too little, too late on what had proved a troublesome day for the Australians, after earlier news that main spinner Jess Jonassen had been dominated out of the collection with a hamstring drawback.
Legspinner Amanda-Jade Wellington is flying out to interchange her.
