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80th over: Australia 286-8 (King 5, Hamilton 5) A couple of singles from Verma\u2019s over. And now it\u2019s time for the second new ball. <\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n 79th over: Australia 284-8 (King 4, Hamilton 4) India\u2019s spinners, Verma and Deepti, are racing through their overs. India want to take the second new ball as soon as possible. First, a drinks break.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 78th over: Australia 283-8 (King 3, Hamilton 4) Verma tempts Hamilton with a flighted delivery from round the wicket. Hamilton crashes it through extra cover for four, a nice way to score your first runs in Test cricket.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 77th over: Australia 278-8 (King 2, Hamilton 0) Australia\u2019s lead is healthy rather than decisive, 80 runs on a pitch that is starting to offer a bit of turn. For now King and Hamilton are playing cautiously, with their main intention to quieten the close fielders. India are as energised as they have been all day.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 76th over: Australia 277-8 (King 1, Hamilton 0) The new batter is the debutant Lucy Hamilton. There\u2019s plenty of chatter as she defends her first delivery \u2013 and for the remainder of the over. A wicket maiden.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Australia 277-8 (McGrath c Mandhana b Verma 13)<\/p>\n Another one gone! Tahlia McGrath bat-pads Shafali Verma\u2019s second ball towards short leg, where Smriti Mandhana takes a quite brilliant reaction catch. Australia have slipped from 240 for 4 to 277 for 8.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 75th over: Australia 277-7 (McGrath 13, King 1) Deepti continues to wheel away in pursuit of more wickets. India have a bit of hope after this mini-collapse, but they will be concerned at the prospect of batting under lights if they do wrap this innings up.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Thanks Tanya, hello everyone. That was another mighty innings from Annabel Sutherland, who now has a Sutherlandesque average of 89.37 from seven Tests. And that was after scores of 3 and 8 in her first two innings.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 74th over: Australia 274-7 ( McGrath 11, King 0) Now the second-guessing begins \u2013 how much game-playing will Australia do to get India batting under lights later today. Rob Smyth will be your guide to that and much more. Thanks for all your messages, bye!<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Sutherland c Harmanpreet b Deepti 129 (Australia 273-7)<\/p>\n With seven overs till the new ball, Sutherland has a sudden rush of blood, gallops to the ball and tries to flay it to the ocean. Instead, she finds Harmanpreet at long on. Standing ovations all round. Well played, gorgeous innings.<\/p>\n 73rd over: Australia 273-7 ( McGrath 10, King 0) <\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 72nd over: Australia 269-6 (Sutherland 125, McGrath 10) Satgahare keeps it tight. I don\u2019t think I imagined it, but the TV just flashed up that Annabel Sutherland\u2019s average at the WACA is 324.<\/p>\n An email drops: \u201cGardner out\u2026. We are great fans of Ash\u2026 she rarely disappoints, but it\u2019s not her day. What a champ is Annabelle Sutherland!! Keep up the great blog.\u201d Thanks Jane Joyce, it\u2019s such a treat to watch women\u2019s Test cricket.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 71st over: Australia 268-6 (Sutherland 122, McGrath 7) While we\u2019re on shadows, they are now stretching to pencil width, McGrath\u2019s double the width of the grass cut strips. Five from Deepti\u2019s over.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 70th over: Australia 263-6 (Sutherland 122, McGrath 7) A maiden from Satghare, and a lively lbw shout against McGrath from the last ball, but no-one is very interested.<\/p>\n \u201cCricket lovers from India,\u201d writes Conscious Minimalists. \u201cMy wife and I were wondering what you really meant by this quote below. Don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to be commenting on athletes bodies?<\/p>\n Rana, her shadow short and squat. Some turn, and some respite for India, who now have a left hander to aim at.<\/p>\n Oh gosh, just to clear this up I meant that Rana\u2019s shadow was short and squat as the sun was high. Not that she was. Though I do try to describe the players to paint a picture as most people are reading without TV coverage \u2013 a player being tall, long arms, long ponytail, looks hot and bothered\/ fed up etc etc.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a003.55 EST<\/p>\n 69th over: Australia 263-6 (Sutherland 122, McGrath 7) Deepti\u2019s back. A wristy, oh so wristy, four from McGrath. But then plenty of oohs and aahs until Sutherland punctuates proceedings with a lofted oooh la la over mid-off for four. Nine from the over as they take drinks.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a003.54 EST<\/p>\n 68th over: Australia 252-6 (Sutherland 117, McGrath 1) Time for some more overs from Satghare. Sutherland gets a leading edge which squirts away in uncontrolled manner. A strangled lbw appeal.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 67th over: Australia 252-6 (Sutherland 117, McGrath 1) Sutherland keeps the run flowing, as she brushes a loose floater from Rana down to the fine leg boundary \u2013 and with that her Test average touches 100.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 66th over: Australia 245-6 (Sutherland 110, McGrath 1) <\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 65th over: Australia 242-6 (Sutherland 108, McGrath 0) Apologies, a few technical hitches as a computer logged me out of the system.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Gardner b Gaud 1 (India 241-6)<\/p>\n The chink of light gets bigger! Exceptional bowling from Gaud who seams most of the over away from Gardner, before bringing back the last off the seam and rattling it through the gate and into the stumps. Gaud holds both arms out as if to say \u2013 that\u2019s how you do it.<\/p>\n 64th over: Australia 241-6 (Sutherland 107, McGrath 0)<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 63rd over: Australia 241-5 (Sutherland 107, Gardner 1) India hold onto a chance from Mooney at last, and see a chink of light through the window \u2013 Australia\u2019s lead already 43. Defensive field placings give Gardner an easy single to get off the mark to her first ball, much to Langer\u2019s (?) disgust.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Mooney c Rodrigues b Rana 19 (Australia 240-5)<\/p>\n Great catch! Low down, scoooped up at short cover by Rodrigues as Mooney flaps at Rana.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 62nd over: Australia 240-4 (Sutherland 107, Mooney 19) Sunderland hauls Gaud over the leg side for four, then Mooney joins in, lacing four through backward point.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 61st over: Australia 229-4 (Sutherland 101, Mooney 14) <\/p>\n Share<\/a>A hundred for Sutherland!<\/p>\n 60th over: Australia 226-4 (Sutherland 100, Mooney 12) Gaud, hair short and neat, pulls at her shirt. Lovely rhythmic run, lean like a greyhound, back of a length, then a short one \u2013 Sutherland flays\u2026a top edge! but it rolls safely away and that\u2019s Sutherland\u2019s fourth Test century, the first Australian women to score four Test centuries, and the first woman to score three consecutive Test centuries. What. A. Star. And just 24. She raises her bat, gets a hug from Mooney and smiles.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Second session<\/p>\n 59th over: Australia 220-4 (Sutherland 93, Mooney 10) Rana resumes. Three singles from it. A nice relaxed start to the session.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cKeep the reports flowing. We are keeping up here in Thailand with you only. No TV coverage\u2026.\u201d well thank you Jan and Rosie in Khao Lak. The TV has currently switched to the FA cup so hopefully that will resolve itself in the next ten minutes\u2026.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Tea – Australia 217-4, lead by 19<\/p>\n 58th over: Australia 217-4 (Sutherland 93, Mooney 10) Deepti gets surprise bounce, from nowhere, but the over passes without other incident and everyone marches in for shade, sustenance and water.<\/p>\n Beautiful batting from Perry and Sutherland this morning, and India didn\u2019t help themselves by dropping Mooney twice just as she got to the wicket. They slowed the run rate down considerably though before tea, and the wicket is starting to turn. Something to hold onto during the break.<\/p>\n Time for me to have a stretch and make some breakfast, back soon.<\/p>\n Annabel Sutherland and Beth Mooney fist bump during day two of the women\u2019s Test. Photograph: Stefan Gosatti\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a002.59 EST<\/p>\n 57th over: Australia 215-4 (Sutherland 92, Mooney 9) I should have mentioned that Australia took the lead some time ago \u2013 leading now by 17. Four byes<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 56th over: Australia 208-4 (Sutherland 90, Mooney 8) Another drop off poor old Deepti, worse still it was Sutherland, who goes to jimmy her away but only turns the ball into Ghosh behind the stump who, in a state of panic, can\u2019t hold on.<\/p>\n