chased down 282<\/a> to win the series opener but came up well short on this occasion and were bowled out for 190 in the 41st over.<\/p>\nSeamer Kranti Goud was the pick of the India bowlers, taking 3-28, and bowled Georgia Wareham with the penultimate ball of her 10th over to seal the victory.<\/p>\n
Having put India in to bat, Australia may soon have been regretting that decision as Mandhana got the home side off to a strong start.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old left-hander dominated an opening stand of 70 with Pratika Rawal and went on to hit 14 fours and four sixes in a sparkling knock.<\/p>\n
When Mandhana was eventually dismissed in the 33rd over, she had scored 117 of India’s 192.<\/p>\n
Australia were able to drag India back from there with Darcie Brown, who took 3-42, removing Deepti Sharma for 40 and no other batters making a score of note as the hosts were bowled out with a ball of the innings remaining.<\/p>\n
In reply, Australia lost both openers inside five overs and despite reaching 108-3 with Ellyse Perry and Annabel Sutherland going well, neither were able to kick on and the innings fell away.<\/p>\n
India’s comprehensive win means Saturday’s third ODI in Delhi will be a series decider between the world’s top two and favourites for the forthcoming 50-over World Cup.<\/p>\n
India and Sri Lanka, who are co-hosting the tournament, meet in the opening game on 30 September before Australia’s title defence starts against New Zealand on 1 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opener Smriti Mandhana scored a brilliant hundred as hosts India claimed a thumping 102-run win over Australia to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-144722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}