Australia Women's tour of India

5th T20I: IND-W vs AUS-W

Preview

A five-match T20 series is being played between India Women and Australia Women in which Australia has taken the lead 3-1 after beating India in the fourth match. India Women will cross swords with Australia Women for the fifth time in the five-match T20I series. The match is scheduled at 07:00 PM on Tuesday, December 20 at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. The Aussies won the last match by 7 runs and India would try to end the series on a high note by making it 3-2. Indian Women have already lost this series but they will fight for pride this Tuesday.

Australia's players have batted brilliantly in the series. Ellyse Perry scored 72 runs in 42 balls in the last match while playing an explosive inning. Apart from Perry, Grace Harris scored 27 runs in 12 balls and Ash Gardner scored 42 runs in 27 balls at a strike rate of 155.56. Beth Mooney has scored the most runs for Australia in the series so far. She has a total of 203 runs in 4 innings with 2 fifties.

The visiting team's bowlers have also done well in the series so far. In the fourth match of the series, the Australian bowlers had to save a target of 189 runs, during which Ash Gardner took 2 wickets for 20 runs in 4 overs. Apart from Gardner, Alana King took 2/23 in 3 overs and Darcy Brown took one wicket. All Aussies players have shown so much temperament and experience throughout the 5-match T20I series. The top wicket-taker of Australia is Gardner who has taken 5 wickets.

Indian batters have also played good cricket in the series. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored 46 runs in the last match, while Richa Ghosh scored a blistering 40 off 19 balls. But despite this, the hosts could not win the match. Smriti Mandhana (124), Harmanpreet Kaur (125), Shefali Verma (127), and Richa Ghosh (103) have scored more than 100 runs in the series so far.

Indian bowlers have been disappointed throughout the series they failed to produce the wickets in the middle order which cost the Hosts. Deepti Sharma is the top wicket-taker of the Indian team who has taken just five wickets in 4 matches. Deepti got two wickets in the last match, but Renuka Singh and Anjali Sarwani could not get any wickets and leaked runs easily. The bowling proved to be the weakness of the hosts in the series. In the fourth match of the series, Australian captain Alyssa Healy retired hurt after scoring 30 runs. She can be given a rest in the fifth match.

Match Details

Match: IND-W vs AUS-W, 5th T20I, Australia Women tour of India, 2022

Date: Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Time: 07:00 PM

Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Pitch and Conditions

The pitch at this venue is considered to be batting paradise and gives a bit of swing to the bowlers as the game moves on. The average first innings score here is 180-190 runs but considering the form of both side's batters in this series, fans can expect a high-scoring clash on Tuesday as well.

Squads

IND-W: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia (wk), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Renuka Singh Thakur, Meghna Singh, Anjali Sarvani, Devika Vaidya, S Meghana, Richa Ghosh (wicket-keeper), Harleen Deol.

AUS-W: Alyssa Healy (c), Tahlia McGrath (VC), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Heather Graham, Grace Harris, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland.

Probable Playing XI

IND-W: Smriti Mandhana, Shefali Verma, Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Richa Ghosh (WK), Deepti Sharma, Devika Vaidya, Radha Yadav, Anjali Sarwani, Renuka Thakur Singh, Rajeshwari Gaikwad

AUS-W: Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney (wk), Tahlia McGrath (c), Ellyse Perry, Ash Gardner, Grace Harris, Sutherland, Heather Graham, Alana King, Megan Schutt, Brown

Match Prediction:

Australia's team is ahead 3-1 in the series. The visiting team will be the favourite in the fifth match and the last match of the series. But the hosts will like to end the series on a winning note. 

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