Australia women's cricket team in India in 2017–18

The Australia women's cricket team played the India women's cricket team in March 2018.^[1] The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) which formed part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship.^[2] Following the WODI matches, both teams played in a tri-series, with England women being the third team.^[3] Australia Women won the series 3–0 and became the number one ranked side in WODIs.^[4][5]

	India women	Australian women
Dates	6 – 18 March 2018
Captains	Mithali Raj[n 1]	Meg Lanning
One Day International series
Results	Australian women won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Smriti Mandhana (131)	Nicole Bolton (195)
Most wickets	Shikha Pandey (5)	Jess Jonassen (8)

Squads

India[6]	Australia[7]
Mithali Raj (c) Harmanpreet Kaur (vc) Ekta Bisht Rajeshwari Gayakwad Veda Krishnamurthy Smriti Mandhana Mona Meshram Shikha Pandey Sukanya Parida Punam Raut Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Pooja Vastrakar Sushma Verma (wk) Poonam Yadav	Meg Lanning (c) Rachael Haynes (vc) Nicole Bolton Nicola Carey Ashleigh Gardner Alyssa Healy (wk) Jess Jonassen Sophie Molineux Beth Mooney Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Belinda Vakarewa Elyse Villani Amanda-Jade Wellington

Tour matches

1st 50-over match: India A Women v Australia Women

6 March 2018 Scorecard

Australia  413/7 (50 overs)	v	India A Women 92 (29.5 overs)
Beth Mooney 115 (83) Sarika Koli 3/67 (8 overs)		Anuja Patil 16 (16) Megan Schutt 3/24 (4.5 overs)

Australia Women won by 321 runs Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Bhatt Milind (Ind) and Sandeep Chavan (Ind)

• India A Women won the toss and elected to field.
• 14 players per side (11 batting, 11 fielding).

2nd 50-over match: India A Women v Australia Women

8 March 2018 Scorecard

India A Women  170 (46.2 overs)	v	Australia 171/3 (26 overs)
Anuja Patil 49 (62) Amanda-Jade Wellington 3/30 (5.2 overs)		Meg Lanning 63 (55) Kavita Patil 1/21 (5 overs)

Australia Women won by 7 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Chandrakant Mhase (Ind) and Milind Pathak (Ind)

• India A Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• 14 players per side (11 batting, 11 fielding).

WODI series

1st WODI

ICC Women's Championship 12 March 2018 Scorecard

India  200 (50 overs)	v	Australia 202/2 (32.1 overs)
Pooja Vastrakar 51 (56) Jess Jonassen 4/30 (10 overs)		Nicole Bolton 100* (101) Shikha Pandey 1/38 (7 overs)

Australia Women won by 8 wickets Reliance Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Nitin Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Nicole Bolton (Aus)

• India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Jemimah Rodrigues (Ind) and Nicola Carey (Aus) both made their WODI debuts.
• Nicole Bolton (Aus) scored her fourth century in WODIs.^[8]
• Shikha Pandey (Ind) took her 50th wicket in WODIs.^[9]
• Meg Lanning (Aus) scored her 3,000th run in WODIs.^[9]
• Points: Australia Women 2, India Women 0.

2nd WODI

ICC Women's Championship 15 March 2018 Scorecard

Australia  287/9 (50 overs)	v	India 227 (49.2 overs)
Nicole Bolton 84 (88) Shikha Pandey 3/61 (10 overs)		Smriti Mandhana 67 (53) Jess Jonassen 3/51 (10 overs)

Australia Women won by 60 runs Reliance Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Anil Dandekar (Ind) and Nand Kishore (Ind) Player of the match: Nicole Bolton (Aus)

• India Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Points: Australia Women 2, India Women 0.

3rd WODI

ICC Women's Championship 18 March 2018 Scorecard

Australia  332/7 (50 overs)	v	India 235 (44.4 overs)
Alyssa Healy 133 (115) Harmanpreet Kaur 2/51 (5.3 overs)		Smriti Mandhana 52 (42) Ashleigh Gardner 3/39 (8 overs)

Australia Women won by 97 runs Reliance Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Anil Dandekar (Ind) and Nand Kishore (Ind) Player of the match: Alyssa Healy (Aus)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Alyssa Healy (Aus) scored her first century in WODIs.^[10]
• Points: Australia Women 2, India Women 0.

Notes

1. Harmanpreet Kaur captained India in their first WODI match.

References

1. "India to host Australia, England for women's T20 tri-series". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
2. "Australia Women to tour India in March". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
3. "Indian Women's Cricket Team to Host Australia And England in March-April 2018". India.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
4. "Healy stars as Australia sweeps India". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
5. "Healy slams century as Australia complete clean sweep". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
6. "Injured Goswami out of India's women's ODI squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
7. "Lanning back; uncapped Molineux, Carey picked for India tour". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
8. "Bolton century guides Stars to emphatic win". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
9. "Jonassen, Bolton rout Mithali-less India Women". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
10. "Healy scores first international century". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 18 March 2018.

External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo