{"id":507626,"date":"2026-02-27T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507626\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:41:08","slug":"voll-century-fires-australia-in-crushing-win-over-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507626\/","title":{"rendered":"Voll century fires Australia in crushing win over India"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a sense that the youthful duo will pile on the runs for the next decade in Australian colours.<\/p>\n

Litchfield lofted over the off side early and then went on the rampage on the leg side with power to take three consecutive boundaries off Kranti Gaud.<\/p>\n

She went past 2000 international runs in all three formats before bringing up her half-century with a classic cover drive to the boundary, followed by another over it.<\/p>\n

Both batters displayed maturity and great tempo throughout the innings.<\/p>\n

Voll, who has been a revelation in her nine ODI matches, received magnificent support from Beth Mooney (31) – the pair adding 82 for the third wicket.<\/p>\n

The second half-century partnership in a row between Harmanpreet (54) and allrounder Kashvee Gautam (25) gave India a modest total, well short of the 300-plus score the pitch suggested was a par tally.<\/p>\n

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Phoebe Litchfield of Australia bats during game two in Hobart.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Annabel Sutherland took 2-37 and Australia\u2019s spinners Ashleigh Gardner (2-39) and Alana King (2-41) did well to restrict India, who will rue not making the most of several dropped catches after winning the toss.<\/p>\n

Australia suffered another injury blow ahead of the match with spinner and vice-captain Sophie Molineux ruled out of the entire series with a back injury.<\/p>\n

Molineux\u2019s place in the side was taken by allrounder Nicola Carey, in her first ODI since 2022.<\/p>\n

India progressed to 0-78 before the hosts got into the contest.<\/p>\n

In-form Smriti Mandhana (31) was bowled by Gardner while playing a paddle sweep.<\/p>\n

At the other end, Pratika Rawal (52) was in serene form with her cover drives all class.<\/p>\n

She threw it away when calling for an ill-advised single to mid-on. Harmanpreet turned her back and Rawal was stranded.<\/p>\n

Deepti Sharma made just one before a swipe to deep midwicket off King brought about her demise.<\/p>\n

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Mooney took a slick juggling catch to dismiss Amanjot Kaur, standing up to Carey, and wicketkeeper Ghosh (21) was looking dangerous until King trapped her in front and it was 6-162.<\/p>\n

Gautam and Harmanpreet both then settled into a crucial stand.<\/p>\n

Cricket Australia earlier confirmed Molineux would \u201cbe monitored ahead of the upcoming tour to the West Indies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Molineux, if fit, will captain the side in the Caribbean in mid-March with current skipper Alyssa Healy set to retire at the end of this series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a sense that the youthful duo will pile on the runs for the next decade in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-507626","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\/507626","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=507626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}