Australia beat India in Kante’s ODI match, took an unassailable 2-0 lead

Opener Beth Mooney (125) scored an unbeaten century as the Australian women’s cricket team defeated the Indian women’s team by five wickets in the second fork ODI match. With this win, Australia took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

Batting first, the Indian team made a challenging total of 274 runs for the loss of seven wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. In reply, Australia won the match by scoring 275 runs for the loss of five wickets in 50 overs. It also took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. Australia won the match by scoring two runs off the last ball of the innings. Hosts Australia’s hero of this victory was opener Beth Mooney and middle-order batsmen Tahlia McGrath and Nicola Carey. While Mooney and Carey played unbeaten knocks of 125 and 39, respectively, Tahlia contributed a crucial 74.

In the match both the teams gave tough competition to each other. The match seemed completely in India’s grip after Australia’s four wickets at 52, but Mooney and Tahlia took charge from here and put on a crucial 126-run partnership for the fifth wicket. Meanwhile, India’s hopes were revived after Tahlia’s dismissal for 178 runs, but Nicola Carey, who came to the crease, like Tahlia’s 97-run partnership with Mooney, led the team to victory. Mooney played a great game. She stayed on one end and won the team in the end. He received the ‘Player of the Match’ award for the winning innings.

For India, Jhulan Goswami, Meghna Singh, Pooja Vastrakar and Deepti Sharma took one wicket each. In batting, opener Smriti Mandhana scored the highest 86, wicket-keeper batsman Richa Ghosh 44, Pooja Vastrakar 29, Jhulan Goswami 28, Deepti Sharma 23 and Shefali Verma scored 22 runs. For Australia, Tahlia McGrath took three wickets, Sophie Molyneux took two and Darcy Brown took one wicket.

The third and final ODI of the series will be played here on Sunday, although Australia already have an unassailable 2-0 lead.