{"id":434443,"date":"2026-02-19T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434443\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:15:08","slug":"voll-and-gardner-haul-australia-back-to-level-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434443\/","title":{"rendered":"Voll and Gardner haul Australia back to level terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Australia captain Sophie Molineux had a point to prove. Her captaincy had begun under a cloud, literally and metaphorically in Sydney. Her team was outbowled, outbatted and outclassed in a rain-curtailed opener that India won by DLS. Four days later at Canberra&#8217;s Manuka Oval, the response from her side was emphatic. Powered by Georgia Voll&#8217;s excellent 88 at the top and Ashleigh Gardner&#8217;s clinical three-wicket haul, Australia levelled the three-match T20I series at 1-1, handing India a 19-run defeat that leaves the decider in Adelaide on Saturday with everything still to play for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Australia captain Sophie Molineux had a point to prove. Her captaincy had begun under a cloud, literally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[47816,99429,28994,1721,144850,93658,158628,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-434443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-47816","9":"tag-2nd-t20i","10":"tag-australia-women","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-georgia-voll","13":"tag-india-women","14":"tag-india-women-tour-of-australia","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434443","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=434443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}