WICKET! 15. 6: Richa Ghosh 14(17) ct Tahlia McGrath b Darcie Brown Who is running CWG reruns here? Speak up! What a wicket for Australia. Richa struggled for timing today and she finds the fielder in the deep. India 135/6 2022 Women's T20 WC Semis Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur out with bat getting stuck in the pitch 2017 Women's WC Final Indian captain Mithali Raj run-out with spike getting stuck in the pitch. — Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) February 23, 2023 All the pain in the first 23. 4 overs of the match < Harmanpreet Kaur getting dismissed that way at that point #T20WorldCup #INDvAUS pic. twitter. com/lIqVHgc1p3 — Aditya Chaturvedi (@aditya_c19) February 23, 2023 WICKET! 14. 4: Harmanpreet Kaur 52(34) Run Out Ashleigh Gardner Oh no. That is beyond frustrating. After two superb overs to start that over, Harmanpreet is run out as her bat gets stuck on the ground. She is so angry, but walks off with a calm word to Deepti. India 133/5 FIFTY for Harmanpreet Kaur: The India captain gets there in 32 balls. What. A. Knock! India 124/4 (14 overs): Another dropped catch in that over and India make the most of it! Healy misses a thin edge, could have even hit the stumps. Kaur finishes the over with a lovely shot over point, Ghosh with a lofted shot over cover too. #INDvAUS Harmanpreet against Australia? Inject that ???? — Samreen (@SamreenRazz) February 23, 2023 India 111/4 (13 overs): DROPPED! Healy with a return gift to the many India provided for Australia today. Kaur goes across the line, edge dropped by the keeper. Healy drops Harmanpreet on 37 (26)???????? #CricketTwitter #INDvAUS — Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) February 23, 2023 The win predictor in that over says Australia are about 65% and they are actually playing that. Any other team, you could say the fielding team is under pressure here but doesn’t feel that way one bit for Australia. Going about things calmly. India 107/4 (12 overs): Megan Schutt gives nine runs in that over without India scoring a boundary. Nice one for India but Ghosh nearly lofted one to mid-off. India 98/4 (11 overs): Maybe India could have held Ghosh back a bit here? The scoring rate not an issue but losing her here could be a big blow. Let’s see anyway. She joins Kaur. Irrespective the outcome of this match, Jemimah Rodrigues can be incredibly proud of her effort today. 43 off 24. After everything that went against India, she began her knock with consecutive fours and kept fighting back with great skill and courage. #T20WorldCup #INDvAUS — Aditya Chaturvedi (@aditya_c19) February 23, 2023 WICKET! 10. 2: Jemimah Rodrigues 43(24) ct Alyssa Healy b Darcie Brown Oh no, what a horrific way to get out after a great innings. Brown digs one in short, it is going WAY OVER Rodrigues’ head and is a wide. But the batter tries to ramp it over the keeper but just edges it. She is so frustrated. India 97/4 Out after this ball, but another great shot. 43 off 24, played. https://t. co/vsXKoeFa10 pic. twitter. com/AwbHEeuo2Y — Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) February 23, 2023 India 93/3 (10 overs): Masterful use of the spin by Jemimah, targetting the cover region off Wareham to hit two lofted fours. That’s Mumbai cricket for you. What a recovery from India but Australia have a chance to gather their thoughts now. They will know they can still get this back. Uff. Shot, Jemi. https://t. co/vsXKoeFa10 pic. twitter. com/f0nJ4PcSns — Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) February 23, 2023 India 74/3 (8 overs): More good rotation of strike, 6 runs in the Jonassen over. India keeping a decent scoring rate still. 93 needed off 66 balls. Incredible partnership, this!!! Have got boundaries, as well as consistent singles!!! Just keep going Jemi & Harman ???????????????????????? #T20WorldCup2023 #INDvAUS — Kapil Choudhary (@kapil857) February 23, 2023 India 74/3 (8 overs): The point Mithali made was when Harman picked the length and line early from Schutt and played a fine sweep. Great reading, really. Another good over for India. Australia must start feeling the pressure soon, but will also know they need just a couple of more wickets. India doing it easy in terms of run rate, thanks partly to some wayward bowling. Kaur and Rodrigues really enjoying pace on the ball. If they stay out there I reckon India get home, which would be amazing after such a sloppy fielding effort. #T20WorldCup #AUSvIND — Melinda Farrell (@melindafarrell) February 23, 2023 Interesting point from Mithali Raj on air (not verbatim): Playing the WBBL has helped Harmanpreet really decode Australian bowling. Whenever she plays them, she is able to find the boundaries when required. India 66/3 (7 overs): Tidy over for India coming out of the powerplay, six singles. Two better runners between the wicket here Uff, that six with the #HarmanpreetKaurBatSwing ™️ was worth the painful wait. #T20WorldCup #INDvAUS — Aditya Chaturvedi (@aditya_c19) February 23, 2023 India 59/3 (6 overs): Two very contrasting powerplays. Harmanpreet Kaur, with the full force of her batswing, hits a super six off Jonassen. India scoring at nearly 10. Well, well, well. The last time Schutt & Gardner snared the Indian openers in a semi pic. twitter. com/8E7r53eevo — Abhay (@ImAbhay3) February 23, 2023 India 47/3 (5 overs): That is perhaps the best few minutes of play India have had entire day so far. A four in that 4th over by Harmanpreet and then an expensive Ellyse Perry first over. Rodrigues put away a free hit for four. Decent scoring rate here for India. By some distance, I'd say India's highlight of the day so far. https://t. co/vsXKoeFa10 pic. twitter. com/Fo7E5fRQUx — Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) February 23, 2023 Grace Harris, Alyssa Healy and Yastika Bhatia combine to run out Yastika Bhatia. #T20WorldCup #INDvAUS — Aditya Chaturvedi (@aditya_c19) February 23, 2023 WICKET! 3. 4: Yastika Bhatia 4(7) Run Out Grace Harris/Alyssa Healy Chaos. Just chaos. Poor batting firstly from Yastika to pile up the pressure with dot balls and then she tries get off strike and is caught in the middle of the pitch. India 28/3 India 25/2 (3 overs): This couldn’t possibly have been worse for India but a little bit to cheer as Rodrigues scores a couple of fours either side square of the wicket. WICKET! 2. 2: Smriti Mandhana 2(5) lbw Ashleigh Gardner Oh what a nightmare start for India. This is a brilliant review by Australia, they think the ball brushed the pad before bat as Mandhana went on the back foot. And they are right. Decision overturned, the matchup with Mandhana vs Gardner pays off India 15/2 That's Schutt's ninth wicket of the tournament! #T20WorldCup pic. twitter. com/AA1djYrDkX — cricket. com. au (@cricketcomau) February 23, 2023 WICKET! 1. 3: Shafali Verma 9(6) lbw Megan Schutt Think Shafali can consider herself hard done by there. On field, that didn’t like it was out, given the angle Schutt operates with but the umpire’s late call to give out is critical. The ball just clips leg stump. Forgettable day for Shafali. India 11/1 India 10/0 (1 over): Good start for India. Firstly, better rotation of strike than we have seen recently. And more importantly, good timing from Shafali to place a sweep shot well for four. Shafali and Smriti in the middle. Australia start with Gardner, to combat Mandhana early. This has to be one of the worst days on the field for this Indian team - poor bowling, sloppy fielding, ordinary captaincy, all happening at the same time. It will take some out of the world performance for India to chase it down. #INDvAUS #T20WomensWorldCup #T20WorldCup2023 — Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) February 23, 2023 Australia 172/4 (20 overs): India will need 173 to win this and reach final. Can they? Can Indian women add to this? Score Opposition Ground Start Date 177/3 v AUS Melbourne 8 Feb 2020 168/3 v SA Potchefstroom 13 Feb 2018 151/3 v PAK Cape Town 12 Feb 2023 150/5 v ENG Canberra 31 Jan 2020 146/2 v ENG Derby 13 Sep 2022 Australia 172/4 (20 overs): Should not judge the pitch before both teams bat, goes the cricketing adage. But that surely did not feel like a 170 pitch. I’d say Australia have definitely gone well above par. India need to come up with a near perfect chase. The dropped catches and missed stumpings/runouts aside, the sheer number of misfields when the ball went straight to a fielder. Inexcusable. #T20WorldCup #INDvAUS — Aditya Chaturvedi (@aditya_c19) February 23, 2023 Australia 172/4 (20 overs): A HUGE LAST OVER. Renuka Thakur with a full toss to start and finish the final over, and two big sixes over the square leg. Gifts galore for Lanning today and she has gleefully accepted them. Too classy a batter to miss out. And Lanning still finishes with 49 off 34 balls. Arguably the most scratchy Meg Lanning innings in a World Cup knockout. #T20WorldCup | #INDvAUS — Annesha Ghosh (@ghosh_annesha) February 23, 2023 Looks like for the first time in a long time India have used just five bowlers in a match where 20 overs were bowled #T20WorldCup2023 — Sa. Gomesh | ச. கோமேஷ் (@SaGomesh) February 23, 2023 18 Lakhs watching India vs Australia match on Hotstar #CricketTwitter #INDvAUS — Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) February 23, 2023 Australia 154/4 (19 overs): A superb shot by Lanning for four through the offside and Pandey finishes with 4-0-32-2. WICKET! 18. 3: Grace Harris 7(4) b Shikha Pandey Change of pace does the trick. Harris hits a four in that over, bowled then by a slower one by Pandey who has a good outing today. That does save a few runs for India. . . in comes Perry. Australia 148/4 Huge wicket. . . Ash Gardner out, India can now try and save a few ru. . . oh, Grace Harris. Never mind. ???? — Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) February 23, 2023 WICKET! 17. 5: Ashleigh Gardner 31(18) b Deepti Sharma Deepti with an important wicket (maybe not, because Grace Harris walks in but well). Yorker length, good delivery. Australia 141/3 Gardner was 3 off 5. She's muscled 27 in her last 11 balls with 5 boundaries. On a track assisting spinners, it's taken her 10 minutes to arguably put this game beyond India's grasp. . . #SmashGardner #T20WorldCup — Jay Dansinghani ???? (@JayDansinghani) February 23, 2023 Australia 137/2 (17 overs): CHANCE MISSED! Gardner, who starts the over with two superb fours off Renuka, should have been run out last ball after a mix up. But the throw from Rodrigues is to the wrong end and she survives. (Might add a few more runs to AUS Total) 4 1 . 4 1 4 2 1 1 4 4 1 4 4 35 runs off the last 10 balls as Australia accelerate! #T20WorldCup — cricket. com. au (@cricketcomau) February 23, 2023 Australia 126/2 (16 overs): This is another expensive over to finish a spell. Radha has bowled alright today but she will finish with 1/35. Two fours for Gardner who is on the charge. A top edge falls safely. Four overs remaining and it’s 126/2. Can India hold Australia to a manageable score❓ Follow LIVE ????: https://t. co/CGswa3eizU #AUSvIND | #T20WorldCup | #TurnItUp pic. twitter. com/OeDmNIzSze — T20 World Cup (@T20WorldCup) February 23, 2023 Feel for Sneh. Bowled better than figures of 0/33 in 4 suggest #T20WorldCup — Jay Dansinghani ???? (@JayDansinghani) February 23, 2023 Australia 114/2 (15 overs): Two big overs for Australia and the intensity from India on the field not great again. A huge over off Rana especially, who must be feeling ‘why me’ as Lanning hits two fours. Three fours in that Sneh Rana over. Meg Lanning and Ash Gardner get the momentum they were looking for as Australia head into the last five overs of their innings. Have absolutely no metric to prove this but I get the feeling Sneh Rana must be one of the unluckiest bowlers. Just a sense that so many chances off her bowling are not taken. (And then it reflects in her bowling figures) #T20WorldCup — Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) February 23, 2023 Australia 94/2 (13 overs): CHANCE MISSED! Richa Ghosh is having a forgettable day. Lanning beaten by Rana, Ghosh doesn’t cleanly gather and she gets back into the crease. When are they going to get that those send offs are a little… #MaybeChooseDifferentWords #SureBeAggressive #ButThatLanguage #AndThatLanguageAsAWoman #IMean #WhatDoYouThinkItMeans — Ananya Upendran (@a_upendran11) February 23, 2023 WICKET! 11. 5: Beth Mooney 54(37) ct Shafali Verma b Shikha Pandey Shafali with an angry reaction after taking a catch but that is quite bizarre, given the damage has been done. Mooney with a couple of fours in that over, reaches her half century. Her job is more than done. Australia 88/2 Again. Beth Mooney is just so good tactically. Not sure there are better readers of pitch / conditions / opponent bowlers in the game. Realised what India are doing and played it so well. Out for 54 off 37 now, but a huge contribution on a slow pitch. https://t. co/7fuafcTgu6 — Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) February 23, 2023 Australia 78/1 (11 overs): All class, says Mithali on air as Mooney lofts one inside out for four. India are paying for the drop already. — Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) February 23, 2023 Meg Lanning dropped, followed by Beth Mooney getting dropped in the very next over.

Probably the costliest drops considering the duo's records in the ICC knockouts. — Jeet Vachharajani (Women's Cricket) (@Jeetv27WC) February 23, 2023 Australia 69/1 (10 overs): DROPPED! U19 World Cup winners dropping the senior World Cup for India? That is just so poor from Shafali, no other way to put it. Mooney hits one STRAIGHT to her at long on and it is just not good enough at this level.

Mooney, that too. Yadhav should have had a wicket. .

. . and a sitter dropped by Shafali.

Oh, this is just horrific from India. https://t. co/7fuafcTgu6 — Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) February 23, 2023 Australia 59/1 (9 overs): DROPPED! Richa Ghosh can’t hold on to a chance as Lanning gets a thick outside edge.

The deflection was quite heavy to be honest, those have to just stick. It didn’t for India. Another misfield in that over, a no ball too, and the free hit is not punished.