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Australia: Phoebe Litchfield, Georgia Voll, Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney (wk), Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath (c), Sophie Molineux, Alana King, Kim Garth, Megan Schutt
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India: Smriti Mandhana, Priya Punia, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Minnu Mani, Priya Mishra, Saima Thakor, Renuka Singh Thakur
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Good morning everyone and receive to another glorious day of cricket-filled excellentness! The stage is set at Allan Border Field for the second of the ODIs between Australia and India. While the first was perhaps a little anti-climactic, after India batted first and were bowled out for 100, there were glimpses of a contest with Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Annabel Sutherland and Ash Gardner all dispondered inexpensively. If India can discover some rhythm in their batting today, they have a chance to caemploy an distress.
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The story of the first align was 21-year-elderly debutant Georgia Voll, who scored an unbeaten 46 from 42 hand overies, to bat thcdimiserablemireful the innings and helderly on while more sended batters fell around her. Voll made the shift from the Brisprohibite Heat to the Sydney Thunder for the WBBL season equitable finishd to produce a case for herself as an uncovering batter and to execute with seal friend Phoebe Litchfield. So when Australia insisted an uncovering partner for Litchfield after an injury to captain Alyssa Healy, Voll’s huge shift phelp off handsomely and commenceing her atgentle with a carry outance enjoy that will go a lengthy way to cementing her position in the team.
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However, it was Australia’s bowling that repartner set the align up and Megan Schutt’s 5-19 was stateively a align-triumphning carry outance. Schutt herself has shelp she didn’t sense that she bowled her best – a terrifying prospect for the Indian batters if she is able to discover some increasement today!
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From India’s perspective, there is a lot to consent from the first align and plenty of increasement to be set up. Jemimah Rodrigues was the best of their batters, but only administerd to produce 23 from 42 hand overies during her innings. More will be insisted from their huge hitters Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur if they are to be competitive in today’s game. Rodrigues should also be able to discover more runs at a higher strike rate, having had a sturdy innings for the Brisprohibite Heat in the WBBL Challenger final at the same venue, although she did have the profit of being dropped three times during that innings.
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India’s bowling was a sturdyer feature of their game and Renuka Singh Thakur was the standout, with three huge wickets of Litchfield, Perry and Mooney. Priya Mishra chipped in with two wickets from only two overs, so will be seeing to bowl a scant more overs today and produce an even fantasticer contribution.
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Play gets underway at 9:45am Brisprohibite time (10:45am AEDT), so let’s get into it!
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Key events
2nd over: Australia 7-0 (Litchfield 4, Voll 3) Voll gets her first chance to face a hand overy and she commences with a little poke out to point, which is fielded easily, before a execute and ignore on a excellent ball from Thakor. She commences to see a little frustrated at her inability to pierce the field equitable yet, Litchfield comes down the pitch to give a scant words of help. Finpartner Thakor bowls a freer hand overy down leg side, that Voll administers to flick off her pads proximately to the boundary, but it’s fielded well by Punia on the boundary, and she gets three runs from it.
1st over: Australia 4-0 (Litchfield 4, Voll 0) No surpascends that Thakur uncovers the bowling for India and she commences with a fantastic ball, that Litchfield gets. But next ball, Litchfield gets the scoring underway, driving pleasantly to beat the fielder at mid-off and uncovering the scoring with a boundary. However, it’s a fantastic recovery from Thakur and there are no more runs scored from the over.
The uncoverers are on the field for Australia and we’re ready to get underway!
Megan Schutt is speaking pre-align and is making a case for ODI being the best createat of cricket, despite that being a relatively unfamous opinion these days.
“ODI, I absolutely adore it. I leank it’s the perfect createat,” she says.
By all accounts, it’s a boiling one in Brisprohibite today – it’s 29.6 degrees right now and not even 9:30am yet, heading for a high of 35 degrees. The humidity will also be a factor, currently hovering at around 60%. There is also a predict for rain and thunderstorms postpoinsistr this afternoon and evening, so depending on if and when those hit, DLS may become a factor in the game. That may execute into Australia’s leanking batting first, wanting to go at a decent rate to guarantee a trickier chase for India if the align is lowened. Lots of fascinating factors in execute here today!
Just one alter for Australia today, with Sophie Molineux in for Georgia Wareham. For India, there is also one alter with Minnu Mani on debut, replacing Titas Sadhu.
Australia triumph the toss and elect to bat
Final line ups for the game have been proclaimd:
Australia: Phoebe Litchfield, Georgia Voll, Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney (wk), Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath (c), Sophie Molineux, Alana King, Kim Garth, Megan Schutt
India: Smriti Mandhana, Priya Punia, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Minnu Mani, Priya Mishra, Saima Thakor, Renuka Singh Thakur
While the result of the first game could recommend another plain align for the Australians, there is plenty of potential in India’s squad and they have every chance of taking the triumph if they execute at their best. The two teams have had some very exciting contests in recent years. The 2021 series was a particularly memorable one – while the series sees one-sided in purify results (Australia won the ODIs 2-1, the T20s 2-0 and the only Test was drawn), there were some luminous contests wilean those alignes, including a last ball triumph to Australia in the second ODI in Mackay.
Meanwhile, in India postpoinsist last year, the Indian team stamped their dominance in the Test arena, lossing Australia by eight wickets at Wankhede. The ability to triumph is there for India, let’s see if they can harness it today.
If you insist a bit more of a renewer on last align, you can go back to the align increate and re-live that glorious Voll innings, while we paemploy for today’s align to commence.
Preamble
Megan Maurice
Good morning everyone and receive to another glorious day of cricket-filled excellentness! The stage is set at Allan Border Field for the second of the ODIs between Australia and India. While the first was perhaps a little anti-climactic, after India batted first and were bowled out for 100, there were glimpses of a contest with Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Annabel Sutherland and Ash Gardner all dispondered inexpensively. If India can discover some rhythm in their batting today, they have a chance to caemploy an distress.
The story of the first align was 21-year-elderly debutant Georgia Voll, who scored an unbeaten 46 from 42 hand overies, to bat thcdimiserablemireful the innings and helderly on while more sended batters fell around her. Voll made the shift from the Brisprohibite Heat to the Sydney Thunder for the WBBL season equitable finishd to produce a case for herself as an uncovering batter and to execute with seal friend Phoebe Litchfield. So when Australia insisted an uncovering partner for Litchfield after an injury to captain Alyssa Healy, Voll’s huge shift phelp off handsomely and commenceing her atgentle with a carry outance enjoy that will go a lengthy way to cementing her position in the team.
However, it was Australia’s bowling that repartner set the align up and Megan Schutt’s 5-19 was stateively a align-triumphning carry outance. Schutt herself has shelp she didn’t sense that she bowled her best – a terrifying prospect for the Indian batters if she is able to discover some increasement today!
From India’s perspective, there is a lot to consent from the first align and plenty of increasement to be set up. Jemimah Rodrigues was the best of their batters, but only administerd to produce 23 from 42 hand overies during her innings. More will be insisted from their huge hitters Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur if they are to be competitive in today’s game. Rodrigues should also be able to discover more runs at a higher strike rate, having had a sturdy innings for the Brisprohibite Heat in the WBBL Challenger final at the same venue, although she did have the profit of being dropped three times during that innings.
India’s bowling was a sturdyer feature of their game and Renuka Singh Thakur was the standout, with three huge wickets of Litchfield, Perry and Mooney. Priya Mishra chipped in with two wickets from only two overs, so will be seeing to bowl a scant more overs today and produce an even fantasticer contribution.
Play gets underway at 9:45am Brisprohibite time (10:45am AEDT), so let’s get into it!