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In Alyssa Healy’s final match for Australia, perhaps you wish to spend some time reflecting on her career while you have your dinner/(insert meal most relevant to the current time in your timezone). Well, funny you should say that, here’s something I prepared earlier.
57th over: India 184-8 (Kashvee Gautam 22, Sayali Satghare 7)
Darcie Brown returns to the attack now and she’s getting a bit of movement from the first ball. Kashvee plays a lovely shot, a very nice drive down the ground, but the outfield is quite thick and the ball holds up, so she only gets a single from it. It’s time for a break now – the dinner break apparently! So go and refuel wherever you are and we’ll see you back here soon for the final session of the day.
56th over: India 181-8 (Kashvee Gautam 21, Sayali Satghare 5)
A huge swing from Kashvee to start Sutherland’s over, but as the saying goes, there is “no ding”. The Australians are quite desperate to get these last two wickets, you can sense the frustration in the field. There’s another lbw appeal, but the umpire isn’t interested and no one is convinced enough to review it.
55th over: India 180-8 (Kashvee Gautam 20, Sayali Satghare 5)
A big appeal on Satghare midway through the over, but it looks to have struck her outside the line and the Australians decide not to review. An uneventful over aside from that, a maiden for Gardner.
54th over: India 180-8 (Kashvee Gautam 20, Sayali Satghare 5)
King is indeed back on the field, handing her vest back to Wareham. Sutherland comes back on to bowl after a very successful spell earlier today. She gets an edge first ball, but Mooney juggles a very simple catch and puts it down – the fourth dropped catch from Sutherland’s bowling today. Kashvee makes the most of the life she’s been given and works the next ball off her pads to the rope for four.
53rd over: India 176-8 (Kashvee Gautam 16, Sayali Satghare 5)
Gardner continues her spell and Mooney has decided to just call out “catch” every ball it seems. But it doesn’t put Kashvee off, she finds the boundary with a standing sweep shot and then works one nicely off her hip for two. On the sideline, King’s orange vest has worked its way up to a bit of a scarf situation around her shoulders and she’s doing some stretches, so we may see her again soon.
52nd over: India 169-8 (Kashvee Gautam 9, Sayali Satghare 5)
King is off the field at the moment, she has been struggling with calf cramping for about an hour or so. But she’s in the orange vest and still hanging around the boundary, so it seems like she’s going to be OK. Satghare hits her first boundary with a lovely straight drive back past Hamilton for four. Hamilton recovers well with a series of dots, but she’s warned by the umpire for running on the pitch, which seems to throw off her rhythm a bit.
51st over: India 165-8 (Kashvee Gautam 9, Sayali Satghare 1)
Gardner once again gets an edge that pops up near the close in fielders – she’s making quite the habit of that. One of them might one day carry to one of the fielders! Satghare works one around the corner and then Kashvee goes bang with a huge sweep shot for a one bounce four and then follows it up with a two.
50th over: India 157-8 (Kashvee Gautam 2, Sayali Satghare 0)
A wicket on the first ball of the over brings Satghare out to the centre and she is playing watchfully after seeing the last few batters go out trying to smash it. Another wicket maiden for Hamilton.
ShareWICKET! Sneh Rana c McGrath b Hamilton 5 (India 157-8)
Hamilton strikes first ball of the over, getting Rana slashing wildly at a leg side delivery. The leading edge goes straight up in the air and it’s the simplest catch for McGrath.
49th over: India 157-7 (Kashvee Gautam 2, Sneh Rana 5)
Kashvee gets one past Gardner, but not quite far enough past her to get off the mark. She’s patient though, she’s not letting the dot ball pressure get to her. She’s here for a long time, not a good time. Of course, as soon as I say that, she has a big slashing sweep at the ball and top edges it, but luckily for her, it falls safely and she runs two to get off the mark.
48th over: India 155-7 (Kashvee Gautam 0, Sneh Rana 5)
Hamilton is still getting the ball moving, she gets very close to Rana’s edge at the start over the over and the straightens her right up and forces a very strong defensive shot. Hamilton throws a bouncer in midway through the over, but Rana isn’t too concerned by it. She tries her slower ball, but misses her length and it’s a low full toss that Rana punches down the ground for four.
47th over: India 151-7 (Kashvee Gautam 0, Sneh Rana 1)
Gardner again gets an edge early in her over that doesn’t quite carry to short leg. Kashvee is navigating things well enough for now, she’s defending well while being very penned in by the fielders under the lids all around her.
46th over: India 150-7 (Kashvee Gautam 0, Sneh Rana 0)
Lucy Hamilton returns to the attack and she doesn’t quite hit her line to start, bowling what would be a wide in limited overs cricket – it’s probably quite a novelty for her to not have it called a wide, so few are her opportunities to play red/pink ball cricket! She changes her angle and comes around the wicket, which works a treat. After a few dot balls, she gets Jemimah swinging and makes the breakthrough.
ShareWICKET! Jemimah Rodrigues c Gardner b Hamilton 52 (India 150-7)
Hamilton comes into the attack and has an almost immediate impact, cramping Jemimah up until she gets frustrated and plays a loose shot to deep square leg, where Gardner is waiting to pounce.
45th over: India 150-6 (Jemimah Rodrigues 52, Sneh Rana 0)
Gardner now and she gets a little edge early, which falls just wide of Voll at short leg. After a few dots, Jemimah decides to get the scoring back underway, getting down low with a lovely sweep shot. Richa gets too impatient though and loses her wicket on the last ball of the over.
ShareWICKET! Richa Ghosh c King b Gardner 11 (India 150-6)
With the pressure building from the past few overs, Richa gets frustrated and slaps at one, which is easily caught by King at midwicket.
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44th over: India 149-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 51, Richa Ghosh 11)
Hello everyone! King resumes her spell and there’s an early almost catching opportunity through backward point, but it’s not a serious chance. It’s a good over from King after a tough start earlier – just the two singles from it.
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43rd over: India 147-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 50, Richa Ghosh 10) The physio has trucked around the circumference of the field to check on King, but she seems content to try and stretch it off herself. A gorgeous cover drive off Gardner brings Rodrigues fifty – what a super innings it has been . An lbw shout off the last ball of the over – umpire says no, and is right – Healy goes upstairs but there’s a brush of bat on ball.
And that’s it from me, thanks for your company – Megan Maurice will see you through till stumps. Bye!
42nd over: India 141-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 44, Richa Ghosh 10) King adjusts her collar, tugs her sleeves and wheels in. Lots of encouragement suddenly from behind the stumps. A single from a top edged sweep, and King is suddenly hobbling between balls.
41st over: India 138-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 42, Richa Ghosh 9) Just a couple off Ghosh.
Updated at 03.59 EST
40th over: India 136-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 42, Richa Ghosh 7) Our first glance of Alana King, the new women’s table-topper in ODI cricket. But Rodrigues is on a mission, doesn’t want her to settle, and King is a little bit all over the place. First Rodrigues leans into a cover-drive for four, then glides a wide one down to the rope, then sweeps airily past a diving Hamilton’s left hand, before a fourth successive four, a better controlled sweep this time. 18 from the over.
Updated at 03.58 EST
39th over: India 118-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 25, Richa Ghosh 6) Untold bounty, six off Gardner’s over, including a cover drive for four from Ghosh.
Incidentally, I saw a fantastic film last night The Corinthians: We were the Champions, about a Manchester women’s football club who defied the FA ban and travelled the world to become world champions. Some of the remarkable women in the film were in the audience – what pioneers. Anyway, a big recommend if you have the chance to see it.
38th over: India 112-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 24, Richa Ghosh 1) Ghosh gets her name in the scorebook, a defensive tonk for a single. They pause for a drink, under an umbrella, and towel their faces. It’s horribly hot out there, 38 degrees at nearly 5pm.
37th over: India 110-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 23, Richa Ghosh 0) Just a single to Rodrigues from Gardner’s over. It’s a patience game, who will break first? Ghosh has faced 15 balls without scoring so far.
36th over: India 109-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 22, Richa Ghosh 0) Sutherland is bowling beautifully here, another skedaddles in from off, a hair’s breath from Rodrigues’ bat and stump.
Updated at 03.40 EST
35th over: India 107-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 20, Richa Ghosh 0) From the Inverarity end, Gardener, like a dancer, twirling from her left toe. Ghosh is taking the time to settle in.
Updated at 03.40 EST
34th over: India 107-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 20, Ghosh 0) Langer is not impressed by India’s lack of patience – and that’s a gorgeous ball from Sutherland, which snakes back, threads past the clueless Ghosh and yet somehow misses bat and stumps.
Updated at 03.35 EST
WICKET! Deepti c Mooney b Sutherland 7 (India 107- 5)
Deepti is put out of her agony, offering a limp bat with static boots, and Mooney collects.
33rd over: India 107-4 (Jemimah Rodrigues 20, Deepti Sharma 7) Rodrigues looks the more comfortable of the two against Gardner, picks up two with a sweep to backward short leg.
32nd over: India 105-4 (Jemimah Rodrigues 18, Deepti Sharma 7) It’s a grey and damp morning in the northern hemisphere and that Perth sky is calling me. Another cracking over from Sutherland, just one from it.
31st over: India 104-4 (Jemimah Rodrigues 17, Deepti Sharma 7) Deepti giving cat on a hot tin roof vibes. Gardner spins the web, Deepti sweeps unconvincingly, then lunges., almost giving a catch to short leg
30th over: India 102-4 (Jemimah Rodrigues 17, Deepti Sharma 5) Talk from the commentators that Sutherland needs to take more of the bowling load, especially as Perry isn’t bowling. And here she is now. An lbw shout against Rodrigues, but half-hearted at best. Nice bowling though. Another maiden.
29th over: India 102-4 (Jemimah Rodrigues 17, Deepti Sharma 5) Gardner continues from her sole pre-tea over. Deepti has been dismissed five times by spinners so far this series (with one run out) and who knows whether that’s playing on her mind when she drops for a sweep, and misses. A maiden.
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28th over: India 102-4 (Jemimah Rodrigues 17, Deepti Sharma 5) They’re back after refreshments, Annabel Sutherland hurtling in. India work three here and there.
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27th over: India 99-4 (Jemimah Rodrigues 15, Deepti Sharma 4) Ash Gardner with the last over before the break, Rodrigues plays it away without incident. Deepti and Rodrigues, bump gloves but Australia had the best of that first session.
“It was really exciting,” says Hamilton of her first Test wicket. “The support has been the biggest thing, getting my cap from Beth Rooney.”
Time for me to grab a coffee, back shortly.
Updated at 03.04 EST
26th over: India 99-4 (Jemimah Rodrigues 15, Deepti Sharma 4) Rodrigues on drives Hamilton, legs crossed, the ball accelerating as it rolls off the “elevated tabletop of the pitches” down to the rope. A push turns into an inside edge, and then Deepti is bewitched by a beauty that keeps low, and whips in.
25th over: India 94-4 (Jemimah Rodrigues 10, Deepti Sharma 4) Deepti, sugar plums in her head, has a go at Brown, slicing four past gully. Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot to follow.
24th over: India 90-4 (Jemimah Rodrigues 10, Deepti Sharma 0) Hamilton on the prowl for pre-prandial wickets. Rodrigues ploughs a couple through point and then picks up a lucky four through gully.
23rd over: India 84-4 (Jemimah Rodrigues 4, Deepti Sharma 0) Could have been worse for India as Deepti Sharma is hit on the leg first ball. Healy goes upstairs and the ruling is umpire’s call. Harmanpreet’s wicket is huge, she had looked in great touch from the off. Ten minutes or so till lunch.
Updated at 02.11 EST
WICKET! Harmanpreet b Brown 19 (India 84-4)
A beauty from Brown! Hamanpreet, eyes on the prize, goes for another big drive and the ball bounds through the enormous gap between bat and pad and dances into the stumps.
22nd over: India 80-3 (Jemimah Rodrigues 4, Harmanpreet Kaur 15) The cameras have found Lucy Hamilton’s parents in the stands, Stephen and Emma Hamilton. “She was always outside, we’ve got four children, and two brothers challenged Luce everyday in the backyard. She idolised Ellyse Perry and Beth Mooney and has Mooney’s keeping gloves from when she was 12.” Perhaps put off by mum and dad on camera, Hamilton then drops Harmanpreet (on 10) at gully and the ball flies for four. Sutherland trugs on.