{"id":158090,"date":"2025-09-21T04:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158090\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T04:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T04:41:10","slug":"australian-opener-beth-mooney-slams-57-ball-century-in-womens-odi-victory-over-india-as-records-tumble-in-crazy-runfest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158090\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian opener Beth Mooney slams 57-ball century in women\u2019s ODI victory over India as records tumble in crazy runfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Only six times in ODI history has 400 been cracked, and they were all by strong, established nations against much weaker opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Mooney and co.<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed opener somehow still attracts less attention than famous teammates like Alyssa Healy, Ellyse Perry and Ash Gardner, but her record is superb.<\/p>\n<p>Mooney\u2019s 57-ball ton was (for a short time) the equal second fastest in women\u2019s ODI history, equal with former Australian captain Karen Rolton and second to Meg Lanning\u2019s 45-ball ton against New Zealand in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Mooney scored all around the wicket, with laps, sweeps, and down the ground shots. She struck 23 fours and one six before she was run out. It was her fourth ODI century and seventh in international cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Then India\u2019s in-form opening batter Smriti Mandhana (125 off 63) rattled up her own century from only 50 balls.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smriti Mandhana got to 100 in 50 balls.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3bc462bb5cbfb1a925691a106c572ebbf4c8d91e.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Smriti Mandhana got to 100 in 50 balls.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Mooney had plenty of able partners. Opening partner Georgia Voll made 81 (68), Perry (68 from 72 at No.3) and Gardner (39 from 24) also set a cracking pace.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Having won the series 2-1, Australia have some talent to come back. Phoebe Litchfield has been nursing a niggle, while all-rounder Annabel Sutherland and fast bowler Darcie Brown missed the third ODI.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s World Cup squad: <\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Healy (c), Tahlia McGrath (vc), Darcie Brown, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Grace Harris, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Sophie Molineux, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Voll, Georgia Wareham<\/p>\n<p>Healy\u2019s team has a warm-up against England on September 28 in Bangalore, before group matches against New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, England and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Semi-finals are October 29 and 30, with the final in Mumbai (or Colombo) on November 2. Any matches involving Pakistan will be in Sri Lanka, hence Colombo is on standby. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricket.com.au\/matches\/CA:23666\/tbc-tbc-icc-women-s-odi-world-cup-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>News, results and expert analysis from the weekend of sport are sent every Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p56jal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for our Sport newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loading Only six times in ODI history has 400 been cracked, and they were all by strong, established&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-158090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}