🏏India Women tour of Australia 2026: 2nd ODI in Hobart🏏 - Page 8

AUS Women Innings

19.5 Gaud to Litchfield, OUT

Gives it away! Back of a length, Litchfield shapes for the scoop - a shot she plays a lot - misses and it takes the top of middle. There was a century on offer

Phoebe Litchfield b Gaud 80 (62b 11x4 1x6) SR: 129.03

20.4 Gautam to Voll, FOUR runs

Dropped! That was pretty awful cricket all round. A big full toss outside off, heaved to deep midwicket where Mandhana spills it, then the ball trickles away to the rope

Need 101 from 29 overs

AUS-W 151/2

India Women

251/9

Australia Women

(32/50 ov, T:252) 225/4

AUS Women need 27 runs from 18 overs.

Current RR: 7.03

• Required RR: 1.50

• Last 5 ov (RR): 36/2 (7.20)

It is too little too late.

Australia win by five wickets to secure the ODI series and take a 6-4 lead in the multi-format series. That was a statement run chase from the home side. Did it at a canter despite those late wickets. Powerful century from Georgia Voll and some classy strokeplay by Phoebe Litchfield. India a long way short of them in these last two matches.

Georgia Voll | Player of the Match:

It was obviously nice to get over the line. I thought Phoebe was outstanding at the other end. Made my job super easy. Just out there having a lot of fun batting with her. And then obviously when Moons came in, sort of kept the momentum going. It was pleasing to get the win today. We keep things pretty simple, to be honest. She was sort of smashing them down the other end and I took a little while to get myself in. Once I sort of started feeling the ball nice, I could sort of expand my game a little bit, and then similar with her. And obviously it complements each other quite well. And yeah, we just love batting together. I love batting anywhere, to be honest. I think any chance you get to bat for Australia, you try and take it with both hands. So I’m just sort of trying to take any opportunity I can get and do the best job I can.

Harmanpreet Kaur: Well, definitely we didn’t bat well today because as a group we decided that let’s bat first and put a 300-plus total on the board because today’s pitch was far better than the previous one. But unfortunately, we again made the same mistakes and we kept losing wickets in between, and I think that’s why we were short of lots of runs. Even though we didn’t play good cricket, still there are so, so many positives. Girls are coming up and showing some good cricket. So I think it’s only about being there and keeping doing the right things again and again. And I think that’s what you have to do when you’re playing international cricket. As I mentioned, no matter whether we bat first or second, we have to bat really well because whenever we bat well, we’re always in a good situation. I think in the last two games we didn’t bat well, and I think that really cost us. So I think it’s only about batting well and batting deep, and hopefully in the next game we’ll do that.

Alyssa Heally: I’m really pumped with that result. Like I said the other night, I was ecstatic with the way that we went about that chase. And to do it again tonight even better, I thought, was outstanding. Pretty pleased with that. It was one of those weird ones where I felt like they were well short of a par score, but at the same time it was frustrating for us, and I felt like we could have got them out a little bit earlier. But to keep them to 250 on that sort of wicket was just an outstanding effort from our group. We felt pretty well ahead at the halfway mark, we just had to get it done. Sometimes I’ve just got to get out of the way and let the young kids do their thing. That’s the future, right? That’s the future of this Australian cricket team moving forward in that top order. So to see them go about their business tonight, especially Phoebe, the way she took it on early and got herself set and gave us a real opportunity, was outstanding. Kudos to them both. We’ll just keep focusing on what we can do really well and the little phases of the game that we can win. And we’re doing those little things at the moment, which is great. And especially heading into next week as well, those little key moments are something that we speak about a lot. Nothing changes for Sunday, I’d say.

Two ODIs, two authoritative performances. Australia may have faced a few challenges in the T20Is, but in the 50-over format they’ve shown exactly why they’re regarded as a powerhouse, particularly in these conditions. After dropping the first two ODIs, India will be determined to regroup and come back strongly in the third match to salvage pride and narrow the gap in the series.

Hypocaust: "It's now 39 years since Australia women lost a bilateral ODI series on home soil (their last and so far only defeat at home was against New Zealand in 1987). This has to stand as one of the most extraordinary records in the history of the sport, and deserves to be much more widely known and celebrated."

That wraps things up for tonight. Australia hitting their stride in the 50-over element of this series. Victory for the home side on Sunday would mean the best India could do would be a share of the overall series with a Test win.

Congratulations to Australia Women for their emphatic win against India , and for their series win as well.

Congratulations to Australia for winning the match.

Congratulations to Georgia Voll for winning the PoTM award.

Cheers..