Perth | Australia translated their overwhelming dominance over the last three days into a lop-sided 10-wicket win over India in the one-off women’s day-night Test here on Sunday.
Australia earlier did the ground work for their victory, bowling out India for 149 in their second innings, and then scaled down a nominal target of 25 without any ado.
It was also a fitting farewell for skipper Alyssa Healy, who ended her career in Baggy Green with a magnificent win over a rival against whom she always excelled.
Writing was very much on the wall once India started the third day at 105 for six. Overnight India batters Pratika Rawal (63) and Sneh Rana (30) took India to 132.
Rawal showed excellent temperament during her fifty but the task was way too tall for her to manage.
Once Rana was ousted by Ash Gardener with a quick delivery taking out the batter’s off-stump, India combusted quickly.
A combination of Gardner and Player of the Match Annabel Sutherland fittingly ended India’s innings. Sutherland took a fine tumbling catch at the edge of the circle when Rawal’s mistimed pull off the off-spinner failed to find power or distance.
It also signalled the end of India’s second innings.
Australia openers Georgia Voll and Phoebe Litchfield were never going to be challenged by a target of 25, and the pair did the job with ease in just 4.3 overs.
“We started well in T20Is with a series win, but could not continue the good work in ODIs and Tests but playing a full series in Australia was a good experience. The Pink Ball Test was a different challenge,” said India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur said after the match.
Her Australian counterpart Healy said: “Bouncing back from the T20 series defeat was unbelievable and proud of the bunch.
“I am going to sing that team song one last time, but happy to see this team going forward and get some good results. The last week or so has been amazing,” said Healy.
Scoreboard at the end of the lone day-night Test between India and Australia here on Sunday.
India Women 1st Innings
Smriti Mandhana b Hamilton 4
Shafali Verma c Mooney b Sutherland 35
Pratika Rawal c Hamilton b Sutherland 18
Jemimah Rodrigues c Gardner b Hamilton 52
Harmanpreet Kaur b Brown 19
Deepti Sharma c Mooney b Sutherland 7
Richa Ghosh c King b Gardner 11
Sneh Rana c McGrath b Hamilton 5
Kashvee Gautam not out 34
Sayali Satghare c Mooney b Sutherland 7
Kranti Gaud c Sutherland b Brown 1
Extras: (LB-3, W-2) 5
Total: ( All out in 62.4 overs) 198
Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-54, 3-61, 4-84, 5-107, 6-150, 7-150, 8-157, 9-195, 10-198
Bowling: Darcie Brown 12.4-0-41-2, Lucy Hamilton 11-3-31-3, Annabel Sutherland 17-5-46-4, Tahlia McGrath 4-2-15-0, Ashleigh Gardner 15-3-39-1, Alana King 3-0 -23-0,
Australia Women 1st Innings
Georgia Voll b Satghare 2
Phoebe Litchfield c Rodrigues b Gaud 9
Ellyse Perry lbw b Sharma 76
Alyssa Healy c Rodrigues b Satghare 13
Annabel Sutherland c Kaur b Sharma 129
Beth Mooney c Rodrigues b Rana 19
Ashleigh Gardner b Gaud 1
Tahlia McGrath c Mandhana b Shafali Verma 13
Alana King c Rana b Satghare 21
Lucy Hamilton c Rana b Satghare 23
Darcie Brown not out 0
Extras: (B-6, LB-6, NB-5) 17
Total: (All out in 90.4 overs) 323
Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-31, 3-58, 4-186, 5-240, 6-241, 7-273, 8-277, 9-311, 10-323
Bowling: Sayali Satghare 18.4-2-50-4, Kranti Gaud 22-5-72-2, Kashvee Gautam 11-1-46-0, Sneh Rana 17-1-64 -1, Deepti Sharma 17-1-67-2, Shafali Verma 5-2-12-1
India Women 2nd Innings:
Smriti Mandhana b Brown 2
Shafali Verma c Mooney b Hamilton 5
Pratika Rawal c Sutherland b Gardner 63
Jemimah Rodrigues c Mooney b Sutherland 14
Harmanpreet Kaur c Hamilton b Sutherland 11
Deepti Sharma b Hamilton 9
Richa Ghosh c Mooney b Hamilton 0
Sneh Rana b Gardner 30
Kashvee Gautam c Healy b King 0
Sayali Satghare c Voll b King 3
Kranti Gaud not out 0
Extras: (B-7, LB-4, W-1) 12
Total: (All out in 48.2 overs) 149
Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-10, 3-38, 4-64, 5-82, 6-82, 7-132, 8-133, 9-149, 10-149
Bowling: Darcie Brown 14-2-45-1, Lucy Hamilton 8-1-32-3, Annabel Sutherland 6-2-15-2, Tahlia McGrath 6-1-15-0, Alana King 10-2-23-2, Ashleigh Gardner 4.2-1-8-2,
Australia Women 2nd Innings:
Georgia Voll not out 16
Phoebe Litchfield not out 11
Extras: (LB-1) 1
Total: (For no loss in 4.3 overs) 28.
