{"id":463404,"date":"2026-03-07T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463404\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:56:08","slug":"australia-vs-india-annabel-sutherland-hits-record-fourth-test-century-as-hosts-close-in-on-victory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463404\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs India: Annabel Sutherland hits record fourth Test century as hosts close in on victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ellyse Perry scored 76 to become the leading runscorer for Australia in women&#8217;s Tests, going past Karen Rolton&#8217;s mark of 1,002. Perry now has 1,006 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia resumed on 96-3, trailing by 102, with Sutherland and Perry&#8217;s stand of 133 putting the hosts into a strong position before the latter was dismissed lbw by Deepti Sharma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wicketkeeper Beth Mooney ground out 19 off 53 balls to help Australia move into the lead and provide support to Sutherland, who played superbly on an increasingly challenging surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was unbeaten on 93 at tea and quickly moved to her landmark century before holing out off Deepti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alana King and Lucy Hamilton put on 34 together to give Australia a significant lead and a weary India then wilted under the lights in the final session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The visitors slipped to 10-2 before Sutherland claimed the key wickets of Jemimah Rodrigues and captain Harmanpreet Kaur to leave India 64-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Left-arm fast bowler Hamilton, on her Test debut, removed Deepti and Richa Ghosh in the space of three balls to have India reeling on 82-6 and in danger of losing the match inside two days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Pratika Rawal&#8217;s defiant 43 not out and Sneh Rana&#8217;s unbeaten 14 ensured the Test will go to a third day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellyse Perry scored 76 to become the leading runscorer for Australia in women&#8217;s Tests, going past Karen Rolton&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-463404","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\/463404","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=463404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}