{"id":438430,"date":"2026-02-21T19:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438430\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:32:06","slug":"india-defeat-australia-in-third-t20i-to-secure-historic-bilateral-series-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438430\/","title":{"rendered":"India defeat Australia in third T20I to secure historic bilateral series victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia suffered their first home bilateral series defeat in nine years as India won the third and final women&#8217;s T20I in Adelaide to seal a 2-1 series win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues both struck half-centuries as they put on a 121-run second-wicket partnership &#8211; a record for India in the shortest format &#8211; to help the tourists post 176-6. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia fell to 32-3 at the start of their chase as off-spinner Shreyanka Patil sent back Georgia Voll and Ellyse Perry, but Ash Gardner kept them in the game with a 45-ball 57. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Sophie Molineux&#8217;s reign as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c1klye0xk4wo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the new Australia captain<\/a> began with a defeat as Patil finished with figures of 3-22 for India, backed up by left\u2011arm spinner Shree Charani, who returned 3-28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India won the rain-affected first T20I by 21 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method before Australia bounced back with a 19-run victory to set up the decider in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two sides will now play a three-match ODI series, starting in Brisbane on Tuesday, followed by a one-off Test in Perth from 6 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia suffered their first home bilateral series defeat in nine years as India won the third and final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-438430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438430","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=438430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}