Australia beat India by five wickets: first women’s one-day international

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Thanks for following along as Australia returned to form with a devastating display on the way to a comprehensive five-wicket victory over India. We’ll be back again for the second women’s one-day international on Sunday, but in the meantime you can catch up on the full report:

Australia win by five wickets!

Australia captain Tahlia McGrath slices a drive between point and cover to the boundary to seal a five-wicket victory over India with 202 balls remaining. The winning stroke leaves Voll four runs short of a half-century on debut but an unbeaten 46 from the 21-year-old was full of promise.

Megan Schutt set up the win with her first five-wicket haul in ODIs which came for only 19 runs as Australia dismissed India for only 100 runs in Brisbane. Phoebe Litchfield kickstarted the run chase with 35 from 29 balls before a mini-slump left Voll to guide Australia to their target.

Australia defeat India by five wickets with debutant opener Georgia Voll unbeaten on 46 and captain Tahlia McGrath hitting the winning runs. Photograph: Chris Hyde/Getty Images

16th over: Australia 97-5 (Voll 45, McGrath 1) SIX! This time it is Gardner looking to finish off the chase in a hurry with a powerful straight drive that sails easily beyond the rope. But the all-rounder tries her luck once more and is stumped. Captain Tahlia McGrath blocks out the over, perhaps wanting debutant Voll to hit the winning runs.

WICKET! Gardner st Ghosh b Mishra 8 (Australia 97-5)

Gardner looks to seal it with a six as the all-rounder dances down the pitch and swings wildly but is some distance from connecting with the ball and is easily stumped.

15th over: Australia 89-4 (Voll 44, Gardner 1) SIX! Voll lands the ball on the rope with a controlled slog to deep midwicket. The 21-year-old had earlier pushed closer to what now looms as a half-century on debut with a flick to the fine leg boundary.

14th over: Australia 79-4 (Voll 34, Gardner 1) India almost pick up a wicket from Priya Mishra as the leg-spinner starts with a googly to Voll and Sutherland is almost run out scampering through for a quick single. Sutherland is gone next ball as Mandhana grasps a sharp chance. The young spinner causes chaos after Gardner comes to the crease and makes you wonder why Kaur took so long to throw the ball to the 20-year-old.

WICKET! Sutherland c Mandhana b Priya 6 (Australia 77-4)

India finally turn to spin and leggie Priya Mishra has an immediate impact. Annabel Sutherland has taken time to get going and now mis-times a swat from outside off through midwicket and it flies straight to Mandhana.

13th over: Australia 76-3 (Voll 32, Sutherland 6) Titas Sadhu is back and bowling a tight line and length. The pressure almost tells on Voll who tickles at a straight one and can only edge, somehow, between Ghosh with the gloves and first slip. The keeper failed to move her feet quickly enough and had to snatch at the ball when it was already behind her.

12th over: Australia 69-3 (Voll 26, Sutherland 5) Saima Thakor is back into the attack. Sutherland gets off the mark with a boundary through cover as Mandhana steps on the rope while picking up the ball. A single to point hands the strike to Voll who has picked up the baton as the main aggressor. Voll gets down onto one knee to slog a wide ball from outside off across the line over midwicket for another boundary. After a few steadying overs, Australia are back to motoring towards their target.

11th over: Australia 58-3 (Voll 20, Sutherland 0) The debutant is showing no signs of suffering from the mounting pressure as Voll steps onto the back foot to dispatch a shorter ball over a square leg for four. Another short one is nudged past point for a single as Sutherland’s batting looms as the calm before the storm.

10th over: Australia 53-3 (Voll 15, Sutherland 0) The powerplay ends with Australia edging towards the ropes as India pick up three for five in just over three overs. Voll and Sutherland both refuse to be tied down but are having trouble finding their way through the infield.

9th over: Australia 52-3 (Voll 14, Sutherland 0) A pair of wickets bookend a superb over from Renuka Singh with the dangerwomen Ellyse Perry and Beth Mooney both on their way. But their is little respite for India as Annabel Sutherland moves up the order, while the debutant Voll remains as the steadying influence at the non-striker’s end.

WICKET! Mooney c Rodrigues b Renuka 1 (Australia 52-3)

India have bowled to a plan and they get the critical wicket of Beth Mooney. A back-foot slice bobs to backward point and Jemimah Rodrigues isn’t going to drop that. Dare I say, but we could have a game here!

WICKET! Perry c Ghosh b Renuka 1 (Australia 50-2)

A faint edge sends Ellyse Perry on her way and this time India celebrate. The right-hander looked to cut but the ball drifted too close to her body and Richa Ghosh takes a very sharp catch. Both keeper and batter know which way this is going and Perry doesn’t bother to review.

8th over: Australia 50-1 (Voll 14, Perry 1) Australia look to settle after the loss of their chief aggressor. Voll will rue a hard swipe at a wide one that missed everything and really deserved to be sent to the boundary. A few little moments going India’s way now.

7th over: Australia 48-1 (Voll 13, Perry 0) Voll likes what she has seen from her good friend and regular opening partner, immediately turning the strike back over to Litchfield with a pull to backward square leg. Litchfield continues on her merry way with three more boundaries in a row, punishing anything wide whether blasting it through the on or off-side. That’s until an entertaining innings comes to an end as Litchfield picks out Kaur while looking to bring up the Australia 50. Ellyse Perry comes to the crease.

WICKET! Litchfield c Kaur b Renuka (Australia 48-1)

Litchfield had hit six boundaries in as many balls faced but tried her luck one too many times as she smacks a drive straight to Kaur at a wide mid-off. The left-hander’s innings ends with eight boundaries from 29 balls that have propelled Australia to almost the halfway mark of their chase.

6th over: Australia 35-0 (Litchfield 23, Voll 12) Titas Sadhu comes into the attack and Litchfield suddenly looks like a woman in a hurry. The opener lifts the run rate with three consecutive boundaries, the first with plenty of good fortune as a thick edge takes the ball over the keeper but there is nothing wrong with the next two shots. Litchfield stands tall and pummels a four over point, then the best of the lot is a rocket through cover that almost travelled a metre from the ground all the way to the rope.

5th over: Australia 23-0 (Litchfield 11, Voll 12) Litchfield is showing all the signs of putting together another big innings against India, patiently waiting for the bad balls and then duly punishing them. The left-hander defends four deliveries then dispatches a slightly wider one with a controlled square drive over point to the boundary.

4th over: Australia 18-0 (Litchfield 6, Voll 12) Voll continues to attack the India bowling but is having trouble finding the gaps with her more powerful strokes. A dab through midwicket picks up two runs but Voll saves her best for the last ball as the right-hander gets down on one knee to casually lift a sweep shot over midwicket. One, two bounces and over the rope for the second boundary of Voll’s innings.

3rd over: Australia 12-0 (Litchfield 6, Voll 6) Australian hearts are in mouths for a brief moment as Litchfield punches a square drive in the air through point but the danger passes as the ball races away to the boundary. Nice variety from Renuka from there as the right-armer mixes up her pace and length.

2nd over: Australia 7-0 (Litchfield 2, Voll 6) Saima Thakor takes the new ball from the other end and ties down Litchfield while pitching it up. The left-hander steps down the pitch to throw Thakor off her line but reigns in the shot with a nudge through square leg for a single. Voll sees out the over cautiously but looks comfortable.

1st over: Australia 7-0 (Litchfield 1, Voll 6) Renuka Singh immediately finds some swing and calls for a slip but then loses her line to let Australia’s openers off the hook. Litchfield pulls to fine leg for a single and turns the strike over to Voll. The debutant starts in a blaze of glory, standing tall and clobbering a drive through cover to the boundary off her first ball faced in international cricket. Voll tucks a shorter delivery around the corner for a couple more and is well and truly away.

Martin Pegan

Thank you Angus and well done keeping pace with the Australia bowling attack as they ripped through the India middle order and tail with six for 11 to end the innings and restrict their target to a mere 101 runs. It is little surprise that Australia are out to make a statement after losing their T20 World Cup crown but no less impressive as they returned to an all-too familiar domination.

Now it’s over to the batters. Phoebe Litchfield and debutant Georgia Voll are in the middle and preparing to start the chase as Australia demonstrate their depth of talent with a pair of 21-year-olds to open the innings. Voll has earned her spot in the XI with strong performances alongside Litchfield with Sydney Thunder in the WBBL, and against India A earlier in the summer.

Left-hander Litchfield has already played 20 ODIs and saved some of her best performances for India, with a pair of fifties then a century from her three innings in the format against Australia’s rivals. Renuka Singh has the ball in hand at the top of her mark and we’re about to get into it at Allan Border Field.

India all out for 100 in the first women’s ODI against Australia

What a disaster for India. They remodelled their side for this first match of the series and won the toss, electing to bat first under bright skies in Brisbane. But they never got going at any stage and lost steady wickets until coming completely undone in the final stages. Jemimah Rodrigues top-scored with 23 and only three of her teammates reached double-figures as India lost their last five wickets for just 11 runs.

Megan Schutt was the hero for Australia with 5-19, the first five wickets haul of her storied 92-game career. She got great support from Kim Garth (1-20), Ash Gardner (1-14), Alana King (1-18) and Annabel Sutherland (1-13). The bowlers were superbly supported in the field with a wonderful run-out by Georgia Wareham and two cool catches by Litchfield contributing to India’s premature demise.

Can Australia run down 101 for victory. Australia’s 150th ODI women’s player Georgia Voller will be making her debut as Phoebe Litchfield’s new opening batting partner and will be desperate to atone for her dropped catch. Can the rookie put her name up in lights and pick up where the bowlers left off? Join us in a hot half hour to find out.

Australia dismiss India for 100 runs as Megan Schutt takes her first ODI five-wicket haul in the women’s 50-over clash in Brisbane. Photograph: Chris Hyde/Getty Images

WICKET! Priya b Schutt 0 (India 100-10)

Priya Mishra is gone for a duck and Megan Schutt, this mighty warrior for Australia, has the first five-for of her one-day international career. Schutt threw it down fuller and faster and in direct line with the stumps. Mishra wasn’t sure whether to play or run and got caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. She pushed forward, missed completely and the ball cannoned into the top of middle peg.

34th over: India 100-8 (Priya 0, Thakur) King delivers another wicket maiden, the second in succession for Australia.

WICKET! Titas c Litchfield b King 2 (India 100-9)

Litchfield has another catch! This one is simpler but she juggles it once out of her belly before getting two safe hands on the catch. Priyas is gone for bugger all, Alana King has her first wicket of the day and India are reeling.

33rd over: India 100-8 (Titas 2, Priya 0) Schutt turns the screws further with a wicket-maiden. The big quick has 4-19 from seven overs.

WICKET! Thakor c Litchfield b Schutt 4 (100-8)

What a catch by Phoebe Litchfield! Thakor stepped out and drove with a full bat and Litchfield, like a Premier League goalie, flew to the left at midwicket and snared a wonderful catch. Megan Schutt has four wickets are Australia are in total control in Brisbane.

32nd over: India 100-7 (Thakor 4, Titas 2) Titas Sadhu is the new batter and she gets off the mark with a neat drive off Gardner for two runs.

WICKET! Richa c Garth b Schutt 14 (India 97-7)

Australia have their seventh. Megan Schutt was brought back for a second spell after her four-over spurt at the start of this innings and straight away she strikes! She shot a tracer bullet ball right at Richa’s heart. The batter backed away and swung but was beaten and it chipped into the safe hands of Kim Garth at short midwicket.

30th over: India 96-6 (Richa 13, Thakor 0) No one likes dropping catches but especially not debutants. Unfortunately that was a sitter put down Georgia Voll who is fielding on her own in the slips. Beth Mooney is consoling her but the youngster is hurting as Ash Gardner closes out a sixth over with miserly figures of 1-11.

29th over: India 95-6 (Richa 13, Thakor 0) Saima Thakor is the new batter and, after Richa runs a single from a thick edge, the 28-year-old playing her fourth ODI for India now has Kim Garth and her deadly wobble seam to contend with. After playing out four dots she slashes angrily at the final ball from Garth, catches the edge and is DROPPED by debutant Georgia Voll at first slip!

28th over: India 93-6 (Richa 13, Thakor 0) Gardner was especially delighted by that run out. She’d been carted into the outer and Wareham not only saved runs by reeling the ball in before the boundary she used superb footwork to whip it ijn accurately and saved Gardner the trouble of backing up and whipping off the bails herself.

WICKET! Sharma run out Wareham 1 (India 92-6)

Good lord! What a run-out! Sharma lofted it into the outfield and ran the first run easy but took off for the second run a tad too nonchalantly and Georgia Wareham whipped it in at terminal speed and hit the stumps with a direct hit on the half-volley. Deepti Sharma put in a desperate dive but too late. Great out-fielding by Australia and sloppy play by India.

27th over: India 89-5 (Richa 13, Sharma 1) After that breakthrough by Garth, the new batter is Deepti Sharma, a left-hander from the beautiful city of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal. She punches square to third man to get off the mark.

WICKET! Jemimah b Garth 23 (India 89-5)

Just as India looked to be hitting their gear at last, Kim Garth strikes! It was a poor shot by Jemimah Rodrigues who was looking to ease it through slips but the ball didn’t swing as expected. It went straight on and skidded and off-stump gets knocked over! Lovely bowling by Garth who has bowled beautifully all day to the benefit of her teammates. Finally, after six over for just 16 runs, she has a wicket. And what a beauty it is.

26th over: India 89-4 (Jemimah 23, Richa 10) Good over for India! They have taken seven easy runs from this Alana King over with five well-judged singles and a swat over cover for two. That is the most profitable over of the day for India and they needed it.

25th over: India 82-4 (Jemimah 18, Richa 8) Kim Garth is back into the attack… and there’s almost a caught and bowled as Richa Ghosh was befuddled by the length and popped a catch that dropped just short of Garth’s diving hands. And now a skied catch… but it falls safe after Phoebe Litchefield’s valiant chase backwards falls short. Georgia Voll was running forward from deep cover and may have been better placed to catch that one but Litchfield called it so she backed off. Good call by the debutant. Dodgy call by Litchfield.

24th over: India 80-4 (Jemimah 17, Richa 7) Now a reverse sweep by Rodrigues! Alana King caught the switch play early though and defuses it by rolling the ball through a little slower. Beth Mooney behind the stumps, who was moving to her right to chase the the catch, had to stick out a fast left paw to stop runs. There’s plenty of timber on the next shot through but it yields only a single as Australia’s field closes in. Rodrigues shows finesse to the final delivery, easing it to fine leg for two.

23rd over: India 76-4 (Jemimah 14, Richa 6) Blazing cut shot! That’s better batting by Rodrigues and it brings up the first boundary in eight overs. That’s what India need right now. Sutherland was smothering them until she pushed one a little wider. Rodrigues duly punished it.

22nd over: India 71-4 (Jemimah 9, Richa 6) Alana King is defying that finger injury to bamboozle India with spin. Even so, Richa Ghosh takes her over cover for two runs and then clips one off her hip for a single. India’s run-rate falls further and now sits 3.2.

21st over: India 67-4 (Jemimah 8, Richa 3) As Australia apply the squeeze, India have a big decision to make. With 30 overs to bat, do they play them out and set Australia modest total? Or swing for the rafters and make a statement to ignite this series? Sutherland is charging in and India can only manage a couple of singles.