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MUMBAI: India registered their first victory against Australia in a women\u2019s Test match on Sunday following their comprehensive eight-wicket win in the one-off contest at the Wankhede Stadium.<\/p>\n
A significant first-innings lead of 187 had put India in the box seat and they needed only 75 runs to clinch the contest after bowling out Australia for 261 in the touring side\u2019s second innings.<\/p>\n
They lost opener Shafali Verma and number three batter Richa Ghosh, but Smriti Mandhana anchored their chase with an unbeaten 38, sealing India\u2019s memorable victory with a four shortly after the lunch break.<\/p>\n
The Harmanpreet Kaur-led India had beaten England by 347 runs – the highest victory margin in terms of runs in women\u2019s Test cricket \u2014 in a one-off Test in Navi Mumbai earlier this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the reward for all the hard work we have done for so many years,\u201d Kaur said after India\u2019s first victory against Australia in 11 Tests since the teams first clashed in the longest format in 1977.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully after these two wins, we will get to play many more Test matches in the upcoming years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier, India claimed the last five Australia wickets for just 28 runs after the tourists had resumed their second innings on 233-5.<\/p>\n
Seamer Pooja Vastrakar trapped Ash Gardner lbw before off-spinner Sneh Rana, who was chosen player of the match for her seven-wicket haul, dismissed Annabel Suther\u00adland (27) and Alana King in successive deliveries.<\/p>\n
Left-arm spinner Rajes\u00adhwari Gayakwad claimed the last two wickets to hasten Australia\u2019s collapse.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat an amazing experience to come over here and play Test cricket,\u201d Australia captain Alyssa Healy said. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy to win over here, we\u2019ve found that out. We\u2019d love to play a couple more [Tests] to make it really interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The teams will now play three one-dayers and an equal number of T20 Internationals.<\/p>\n
Published in Dawn, December 25th, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MUMBAI: India registered their first victory against Australia in a women\u2019s Test match on Sunday following their comprehensive eight-wicket win in the one-off contest at the Wankhede Stadium. A significant first-innings lead of 187 had put India in the box seat and they needed only 75 runs to clinch the contest after bowling out Australia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/12\/25112358ad1507e.png?r=112404","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t