🏏India Women tour of Australia 2026: 1st ODI in Brisbane🏏

🏏India Women tour of Australia 2026: 1st ODI in Brisbane🏏

12:50 Local Time, 02:50 GMT, 08:20 IST: The format shifts, but the spotlight remains firmly on familiar names as Australia Women take on India Women in the 1st ODI. India Women arrive after clinching the T20I series 2-1, driven by strong individual performances. Smriti Mandhana led the batting charts with 129 runs across the series, while Australia found a bright note in Georgia Voll, who scored 116 runs. With the ball, India held the edge - Arundhati Reddy finished as the leading wicket-taker with eight scalps, and Charani chipped in with five. Now, attention turns to the ODI format, where Australia’s pedigree stands tall. Seven-time World Cup champions, they have long dictated the rhythm of one-day cricket and hold a dominant overall record against India. India, meanwhile, will look to stretch the confidence earned in the T20Is into the longer format. The opening ODI sets the tone for the series - shaped by recent form, tested reputations and the quiet reminder that in 50-over cricket, patience and precision still decide the day. Stay around for the toss and teams..

Alyssa Healy: Happy days. I would have loved to bowl first. So we’ve got a desired result, but we’ve obviously got to start really well and make use of this fresh wicket. It’s been very, very unusual, I will say that, but also really enjoyable to sort of, you know, watch what’s going to unfold in a couple of games’ time anyway. So it’s nice to be back, nice to be put under the pressure by the Indian side. They’ve started really well in the series, so, we’re going to have to fight really well in this ODI series to wrestle back some momentum. I just think starting really well in this series. We’ve prided ourselves on our one-day game. We like these conditions and we play really well in these conditions. So hopefully, we can remain consistent to that in what we do really well, and hopefully, that throws the first punch. No Perry, no Garth. Got some injuries picked up in the third T20. That’s probably the two notable changes.

Harmanpreet Kaur: We'll bat first. I think batting first will be a better option for us today. So that’s why, as a group, we decided that let’s bat first. I feel opportunity, because last day when we played the World Cup, we all had really a lot of fun and hopefully today also we’ll have fun. We do have a few changes. Kashvee is back in the side. And I’ll give you my playing list so you can just go through it.

India Women have won the toss and have opted to bat

Teams:

Australia Women (Playing XI): Alyssa Healy(c), Phoebe Litchfield, Georgia Voll, Beth Mooney(w), Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Sophie Molineux, Alana King, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown

India Women (Playing XI): Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Shafali Verma, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Kashvee Gautam, Shree Charani, Kranti Gaud, Renuka Singh Thakur

Schutt to Pratika Rawal, out Lbw!! Schutt strikes in the first over. Pratika Rawal is gone without troubling the scorers. A length delivery around off and it swings back sharply. Pratika Rawal gets beaten on her defence and is rapped on the pads. No bat involved, impact's in line and it's crashing into the stumps, confirm the replays. India have also lost a review. Pratika Rawal lbw b Schutt 0(2)

Schutt to Pratika Rawal, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!

INDW 23-1(7)

CRR:3.29

India Women opt to bat

7.4

W

Darcie Brown to Shafali Verma, out Caught&Bowled!! Shafali Verma's rusty knock comes to an end. A length delivery around off, Shafali Verma chips it right back to Darcie Brown. She takes a good low catch in her followthrough and India are in a spot of bother having lost a couple of early wickets. That was an impressive return catch by Darcie Brown. Appreciated by her teammates.. Shafali Verma c and b Darcie Brown 4(17)

Darcie Brown to Shafali Verma, THATS OUT!! Caught&Bowled!!

Darcie Brown to Smriti, FOUR, Darcie Brown goes short and Smriti has stylishly pulled this away to the deep square leg fence. That was struck quite powerfully and the fielder charging in the deep had no chance.

INDW 47-2(10.3)

CRR:4.48

India Women opt to bat

Harmanpreet Kaur, right handed bat, comes to the crease

W

Ashleigh Gardner to Jemimah Rodrigues, out Caught by Beth Mooney!! Edged and taken! Conceded a boundary on the first ball, and she picks a wicket on the very next ball. Goes full outside off and the ball keeps straight, Jemimah Rodrigues looks to defend and the outside edge has been taken by the keeper. Apart from Smriti, none of the Indian batters have been able to score freely so far. Jemimah Rodrigues c Beth Mooney b Ashleigh Gardner 8(13) [4s-1]

Ashleigh Gardner to Jemimah Rodrigues, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Thanks for the thread and tagging me Madhu.

India was in a spot of bother after losing 3 wickets by the time they completed 12 overs.

Smriti perished after steadying the ship with 58 runs.

India 100 for 4 in the 24th over

India Women

(25.1/50 ov) 112/5

Australia Women

IND Women chose to bat.

Current RR: 4.45

• Last 5 ov (RR): 25/2 (5.00)

Are they going to complete 50 overs or follow the footsteps of their male counterparts?