Australia v India: third women’s cricket one-day international – live
Key events
WICKET! Arundhati Reddy lbw b Gardner 5 (India 203-9)
Ash Gardner has five wickets! Slides one past Reddy’s sweep and three reds on DRS tell the tale. What a spell this has been, Gardner has ripped through India in her last four overs.
41st over: India 203-8 (Reddy 5, Sadhu 0) The game slips away from India, Australia hunting the final two wickets to complete a 3-0 series sweep.
40th over: India 201-8 (Reddy 4, Sadhu)
WICKET! Thakor c Garth b Gardner 0 (India 201-8)
Gardner picks up two in the over, again! She ties Thakor down and then snares her with the last, a whip into the leg side taken by Kim Garth. Gardner on the cusp of a five wicket haul, Annabelle Sutherland’s player of the match gong might not be a done deal…
WICKET! Mani c Litchfield b Gardner 8 (India 201-7)
Caught! Ash Gardner gets her third wicket as Minnu Mani plinks an easy catch to Phoebe Litchfield who takes the catch. Nervous laughter all round.
39th over: India 201-6 (Reddy 4, Mani 8) Schutt can’t atone for her butter fingers, Mani clears the front leg and swipes her down the ground for four.
38th over: India 195-6 (Reddy 3, Mani 3) Gardner into her seventh over, she has her dander up now after two wickets in her previous. OH MY DAYS! Gardner should have had another too but Megan Schutt spills an absolute goobah at short cover. Dolly. Lollipop. Sitter. You name it. A shocker. I make that three easy chances down off Gardner in this match.
37th over: India 192-6 (Reddy 2, Mani 1) A stiff task now for India with 107 needed off 78 balls and with just four wickets left. Arundhati Reddy and Minnu Mani both newbies at the crease.
WICKET! Rodrigues c & b Schutt 16 (India 189-6)
Another one bites the dust! Rodrigues has to go now after flapping at a Schutt short ball, the bowler taking a loopy catch over her shoulder. The Aussies swarm as they take control of this match. Three wickets fall without a run being scored.
WICKET! Sharma c Mooney b Gardner 0 (India 189-5)
Two wickets in the over! Gardner strikes again as Deepti Sharma gets a tickle oto her pad that is swallowed by Mooney behind the stumps. The umpire says no but DRS showed the spike on snicko. Australia hitting back in Perth.
36th over: India 189-5 (Rodrigues 16)
WICKET! Mandhana b Gardner 105 (India 189-4)
Gone! Gardner is smacked down the ground for four by Mandhana but gets her revenge immediately by sliding one through and knocking back middle stump! That’s the end of a brilliant knock, Gardner has pocketed Mandhana FIVE times in ODI cricket now.
35th over: India 184-3 (Mandhana 101, Rodrigues 15) Just three runs off the next over, India can’t afford to bask in Mandhana’s ton for too long, they need 115 runs off 90 deliveries.
34th over: India 181-3 (Mandhana 100, Rodrigues 14) Brilliant batting by Rodrigues! She lofts Alana King for SIX with a slog sweep wide of long on and picks the gaps for three twos.
Century for Smriti Mandhana! The class left-hander tickles a two off her legs to go to her ninth ODI hundred and her fourth of this calendar year! She’s the first female player to do that too.
Her century has come at a run a ball and she’s led from the front in this chase. Well batted.
India need 118 from 96 balls.
33rd over: India 166-3 (Mandhana 98, Rodrigues 1) Jemimah Rodrigues is the new batter, which might not be a bad thing for India. She can score quickly and played a sparky innings the other day in the second match of the series. An uppercut run up the face of the bat sees her open her account.
WICKET! Kaur c Garth b Sutherland 12 (India 165-3)
India lose their skipper! Sutherland gets the breakthrough, although Kaur was at fault in the main, failing to keep an on drive on the carpet and finding the hands of Kim Garth.
32nd over: India 162-2 (Mandhana 98, Kaur 10) The two experienced hands rotate strike and keep India inching onwards. Six off the over.
31st over: India 156-2 (Mandhana 96, Kaur 6) Shot! Mandhana slog sweeps Molineux for four at the start of the over. Three singles make it seven off the over and Mandhana is one shot away from three figures.
30th over: India 149-2 (Mandhana 90, Kaur 5) King worked around for four runs. Mandhana closing in on a 9th ODI hundred. If that doesn’t jinx her…
29th over: India 145-2 (Mandhana 88, Kaur 3) Molineux backs up the over from King, mixing up her speeds and beating the bat on a couple of deliveries. Whoops! Spoke too soon, she spears five wides down the leg side with her last delivery to spoil the over.
India need 154 runs from 126 balls.
28th over: India 136-2 (Mandhana 85, Kaur 2) A pulse raising prospect now with Harmanpreet coming out to the middle to join a purring Mandhana. King is landing them beautifully and Kaur gets a thick edge past point to get off the mark. Game on!
WICKET! Harleen Deol c & b King 39 (India 134-2)
King strikes with her second ball! Deol drives powerfully but too straight and King clings on to a sharp return catch. She slams the ball into the turf in celebration. She is pumped.
27th over: India 134-1 (Mandhana 84, Deol 39) Shot! Mandhana lofts Molineux over extra cover for four and then uses her crease to pick up a couple into the leg side. Surely time for King?
26th over: India 126-1 (Mandhana 78, Deol 38) Justin Langer is calling for Alana King to be called upon, Australia do need to shake things up. Mandhana and Deol look comfortable (cramp notwithstanding) as they work the ones and twos. Six off McGrath’s over, collected without fuss.
25th over: India 120-1 (Mandhana 74, Deol 37) Deol is back in action after a going over from the physio. The mercury is still touching 39 degrees in Perth.
We’ve got a short delay here whilst Deol suffers from cramp and takes on board some pickle juice. Yummy. The umpires call for other (less revolting) drinks.
24th over: India 117-1 (Mandhana 72, Deol 36) Six! Mandhana breaks the green and gold shackles by trotting down the wicket and depositing the new bowler – Tahlia McGrath – for a big one back over the bowler’s head. A glide for two then brings up the 100 partnership between Mandhana and Deol. They are keeping their side in the chase.
23rd over: India 108-1 (Mandhana 63, Deol 36) After all that there was just a solitary single off Molineux’s first over. And crucially, no wicket.
WICKET OVERTURNED! Molineux pins Deol in front and the umpire raises the finger. Justin Langer is in the commentary box and says he has his finger up… replays show the ball was missing the stumps and the decision is over turned.
Hard luck ‘JL’. I do like the wild eyed Langer. I like writing about him too. His appearance with a mute Graeme Hick on series one of The Test was so strangely compelling…
22nd over: India 107-1 (Mandhana 62, Deol 36) Just a couple off Ash Gardner. Sophie Molineux and her left-arm spin are being summoned.
21st over: India 105-1 (Mandhana 61, Deol 35) Australia and the Perth wicket are looking decidedly flat. India bring up their hundred as Perry misses her line and length again, Mandhana flicking gratefully off her hip for four runs.
