{"id":495834,"date":"2026-02-22T01:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495834\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T01:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:57:15","slug":"ellyse-perrys-milestone-game-india-defeat-australia-in-t20-clash-ash-gardner-comments-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495834\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellyse Perry’s milestone game, India defeat Australia in T20 clash, Ash Gardner comments, praise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ash Gardner has heaped praise on star teammate Ellyse Perry<\/a>, saying she should go down as the greatest cricketer the game has seen – male or female. <\/p>\n

The all-rounder brought up her 350th game on Saturday night against India, another milestone in her incredible career. <\/p>\n

Perry has an incredibly long list of accolades, including being named the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Decade (2011-2020).<\/p>\n

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She won the Belinda Clark Award for best Australian women’s cricketer in 2016, 2018 and 2020 and has been named WBBL player of the tournament twice.<\/p>\n

\"Ellyse<\/p>\n

Ellyse Perry of Australia with a young fan after the game.\u00a0Cricket Australia via Getty Imag<\/p>\n

Perry has nearly 7000 runs for Australia in white ball cricket, while also taking over 300 wickets for her country.<\/p>\n

Speaking before the loss to India in Adelaide, Gardner spoke glowingly of her teammate.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t said it in the media, but I genuinely think she’s going to go down as the best, female or male, player that we’ve ever seen,” Gardner told Triple M.<\/p>\n

“Her record speaks for itself, but I just think the person that she is, she’s done so much for this team, for the world game, she’s an absolute icon wherever she goes, she’s very recognisable and I just think she’s so down to earth … she would hate that all of this.<\/p>\n

“She’s certainly earned it. Playing 350 games for your country and starting at the age of 16 is an incredible feat.<\/p>\n

“It’s an absolute honour to share a small part of her career and she’s certainly going to go down as one of the best I’ve seen.”<\/p>\n

\"Australia's<\/p>\n

Australia’s Ellyse Perry is bowled by India’s Shreyanka Patil during game three of the Women’s T20 International Series at Adelaide Oval.\u00a0Mark Brake via Getty Images<\/p>\n

India<\/a> spoiled Perry’s 350th milestone match, handing Australia<\/a> a rare home series defeat with a clinical 17-run victory on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

After the visitors opted to bat first, opener Smriti Mandhana and No.3 Jemimah Rodrigues fired India to a record-breaking 6-176 \u2014 the side’s highest team total at Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n

Mandhana’s blistering 82 off 55 was her highest-ever T20<\/a> score in Australia, eclipsing her previous high of 66.<\/p>\n

It was the 29-year-old’s 33rd T20 50, featuring 11 boundaries and three sixes, while Rodrigues’ 59 off 46 marked her 15th career half-century and her first on Australian soil.<\/p>\n

Australia’s bowlers struggled to contain the onslaught, with allrounder Annabel Sutherland (2-34) leading a largely expensive showing from Shelley Nitschke’s cohort.<\/p>\n

Only fast bowler Kim Garth offered sustained control, finishing as the most economical with 1-25 from her three overs.<\/p>\n

Despite the leather-flinging, the crowd erupted in the ninth over when Perry pulled off a brilliant one-handed save at the long-on rope to deny Mandhana a certain boundary.<\/p>\n

The milestone allrounder later capped off her fielding display with a run-out on the final ball of the innings.<\/p>\n

In response, Australia slumped to 3-32 early in the chase, losing Perry for cheap in her milestone game when she was bowled by Shreyanka Patil (3-22) after dancing down the wicket to a turning delivery.<\/p>\n

Patil had earlier snared the crucial wicket of the in-form Georgia Voll (10), who was fresh off a career-high 88 on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A defiant 57 off 45 from Gardner eventually gave the hosts a glimmer of hope, but her fourth T20 half-century stand against India ended when Rodrigues dived forward at full stretch to claim a stunning catch at deep mid-wicket.<\/p>\n

The dismissal left Australia reeling at 6-128 in the 16th over, and despite Georgia Wareham (12) and Annabel Sutherland (14) adding late runs, the chase fell short at 9-159.<\/p>\n

Shree Charani (3-32) and Arundhati Reddy (2-35) provided the finishing touches with the ball to help steer India to the series-clinching win.<\/p>\n

As attention now turns to three ODIs and a one-off Test, Perry \u2014 who debuted in 2007 \u2014 leaves the T20 leg as the third-most capped woman in international cricket, trailing only India’s Harmanpreet Kaur (357) and New Zealand’s Suzie Bates (355).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ash Gardner has heaped praise on star teammate Ellyse Perry, saying she should go down as the greatest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-495834","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\/495834","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=495834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}