TItas Sadhu comes in to bowl to Georgia Voll.

Two dot balls begin the over.

Voll hits in the air … it falls safe. That was not a convincing shot.

India have their tails up.

Annabel Sutherland at at the crease and is now on strike.

Sutherland drives on the up for no run.

Another two dot for Titas and India.

End of the over. Australia are 3/53.

OUT.

Australia has lost three wickets for just four runs.

Renuka Singh Thakur bowled across the left-handed Beth Mooney who went for the cover drive.

Mooney edges and it goes to Jemimah Rodrigues at gully.

Beth Mooney comes in at number four.

Mooney is off the mark straight away with a single.

Voll faces Thakur and takes a leg bye.

Mooney — a left-handed batter — faces up again.

Thakur is trying to slide her deliveries across Mooney, who is up to the challenge, fending two to the off-side.

Renuka Singh Thakur starts the 9th over with a wicket.

It was short and wide and Ellyse Perry went for a cut shot.

EDGE. OUT. Nice take from the keeper Richa Ghosh who was standing up to the stumps.

Perry looks very frustrated with that. She is out for 1.

Titas Sadhu comes in to bowl to Georgia Voll.

The first ball is wide but missed by Voll.

The Aussie batter then hits the second ball over point for a single.

Ellyse Perry is on strike and drives for no run.

Perry then plays a cut to deep backward point to get off the mark with a single.

Voll defends Titas on the front foot.

Another dot to end the over.

Ellyse Perry is out there for Australia.

She does not score a run from the final ball of the seventh over.

OUT.

After hitting six consecutive boundaries, Phoebe Litchfield’s innings comes to an end.

She charged down the wicket to Renuka Singh Thakur and tried to hit a flat-bat shot over mid-off.

Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur lept high and took a nice grab.

Litchfield is dismissed for 35 runs off 29 balls.

Renuka Singh Thakur is up for another over.

She bowls to Georgia Voll whole hits through the odd-side for a single.

Litchfield is on strike.

FOUR. Phoebe Litchfield has hit four boundaries from her previous four deliveries. That was a shot and wide delivery from Thakur and was punished.

FOUR. Make it five consecutive boundaries for Litchfield. The Australian rocked onto the back foot and whacked a short ball through square leg.

FOUR. It’s six fours in a row. Phoebe Litchfield would like to wrap up this game early.

We have a change of bowling.

Titas Sadhu — right arm pace — is coming around the wicket to Phoebe Litchfield.

It has been a tidy start for Titas who forced Litchfield into a trio of defensive shots.

FOUR. Litchfield comes down the wicket and gets a thick edge which flies over the slips to the boundary.

FOUR. Very similar at Titas bowled full and wide and Litchfield swung hard. It was another thick edge, but flew over gully.

FOUR. That is the pick if the shots. It was full and Litchfield hit a textbook cover drive. That ball was hit in the centre of the willow.

Twelve off the over and Australia is 0/35 from six overs.

Australia needs 66 runs for victory.

Renuka Singh Thakur comes in for her third over.

Phoebe Litchfield is on strike.

Thakur is trying to bowl across the left-hander.

Three dot balls for the bowler, but Thakur decides to come around the wicket to the lefty.

Litchfield defends.

FOUR. Litchfield charges down the wicket and whacks the ball over the off-side field to the boundary. She did not hit that ball cleanly, but enough to clear the in-field and get it to the rope.

A single off her hip ends the over.

Saima Thakor — right arm pace — comes over the wicket to Georgia Voll.

Two slips and the keeper is up to the stumps.

Voll hits the first three balls of the over to fielders.

Thakor then bowls a full ball at the pads and Voll whips it through the leg-side for two runs.

A full ball from Thakor is blocked by Voll.

FOUR. Voll has her second boundary. She took a knee and played across her body to the vacant deep mid-wicket region.

That is a nice finish to the fourth over.

Thakur comes in to bowl with two slips and the keeper up to the stumps.

FOUR. The first delivery was full and wide and Phoebe Litchfield blasted a square drive to the deep point boundary.

Thakur follows up with a nice ball across the left-hander. A play-and-miss from Litchfield.

Two fends for no run, followed by a leave from Litchfield.

The final ball of the over is another dot.

That is a great fightback from Thakur after being whacked to the boundary from the opener.

End of three overs. Australia are 0/12, needing 89 runs for victory.

Here comes Saima Thakor.

Her first three deliveries to Phoebe Litchfield were dots, then a single was taken by Australia.

Georgia Voll defends the next two deliveries.

That is a tidy over from Thankor.

Indian right-arm pace bowler Renuka Singh Thakur will bowl the opening over of the innings.

Phoebe Litchfield — left-hand bat — is on strike.

The first ball goes across the left-hander and through to the keeper.

Another dot it followed by a hook shot down to fine leg for the first run of the innings.

Georgia Voll prepares to face her first ball in ODI cricket.

FOUR. A perfect start from Voll. The ball was short and wide and she smacked it through cover-point to the boundary.

Voll works the next ball to the leg side for two runs.

Voll defends the final ball.

Australia are 0/7 after one over.

Phoebe Litchfield and debutant Georgia Voll walk out to the crease.

Australia needs 101 runs to win the opening ODI of the series.

As we enjoy the innings break, let’s hear our Aussie women as they tell ABC Sport how they feel every time they get to face the might of India.

BOWLED. Megan Schutt has five wickets.

Priya Mishra played back but missed a straight delivery.

India lost their final six wickets for just 11 runs.

That was a terrific bowling display from Australia.

Megan Schutt comes in and bowls to Priya Mishra.

The first ball of the over is left for a dot.