{"id":523013,"date":"2026-03-06T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523013\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:21:10","slug":"cricket-news-2026-lucy-hamilton-debut-wicket-australia-vs-india-womens-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523013\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket news 2026 | Lucy Hamilton debut wicket; Australia vs India women’s Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aussie women’s<\/a> Test debutant Lucy Hamilton<\/a> had a moment she’ll remember forever, dismissing Indian<\/a> star Smriti Mandhana for her maiden wicket.<\/p>\n

In her third over, the Queenslander went straight through the gate of the opener with a beauty after becoming the 186th woman to play Test cricket for Australia.<\/p>\n

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“What a first wicket to get in her Test match career. Lucy Hamilton through the gate of one of the world’s best,” Mel Jones said on Fox Cricket.<\/p>\n

“… She probably dreamt last night and visualised her first Test wicket … That (wicket) there we are going to see time and time again over the coming years.”<\/p>\n

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Lucy Hamilton celebrates her first wicket. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Hannah Darlington added: “That’s the exact sound you want to hear as a debutant with the new ball in hand.”<\/p>\n

Shafali Verma (35) and Pratika Rawal then combined for 36 runs before the former was caught behind by Beth Mooney off Annabel Sutherland’s bowling.<\/p>\n

At third slip Hamilton was involved again, taking a sharp catch to dismiss Rawal (18) and help Sutherland take her second.<\/p>\n

Superstar all-rounder Harmanpreet Kaur was next to go, bowled by Darcie Brown for 19.<\/p>\n

India ended up all-out for 198 with Jemimah Rodrigues the top-scorer on 52. Hamilton dismissed her too and finished with 3-31 on debut. Sutherland took 4-46. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aussie women’s Test debutant Lucy Hamilton had a moment she’ll remember forever, dismissing Indian star Smriti Mandhana for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-523013","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\/523013","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=523013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}