India Vs Australia Live Score, 2nd Women's ODI Updates: Mandhana Departs, Middle Order Looks To Rebuild, IND-W 202/4

India are 202/4 after 35 overs, and the momentum has slightly dipped since Smriti Mandhana’s dismissal. Deepti Sharma is steady at 16 off 26, playing a composed anchor’s role, while Richa Ghosh is yet to cut loose, sitting on 7 from 11 deliveries. Australia have tightened the screws with disciplined lines, not allowing easy boundaries. The next 10 overs will be crucial, India will need one of these two to accelerate and push the total beyond 280 to stay on top.

Smriti Mandhana departs! She goes for a big shot off McGrath, clearing the front leg beautifully, but Gardner at deep mid-wicket is alert, takes a perfect reverse-cup catch. India lose a key batter after a superb innings.

India are cruising at 187 for 3 after 31 overs, with Smriti Mandhana continuing the momentum. She’s pacing the innings beautifully, finding gaps and keeping the scoreboard ticking as India builds a strong platform.

Smriti Mandhana brings up her second fastest ODI hundred for India! McGrath delivers a full and wide ball, and Mandhana doesn’t miss—she smashes it straight past mid-off, raising her arms as the crowd erupts in applause. A masterclass innings from the Women in Blue.

Harmanpreet Kaur departs! Gardner’s clever loop and slower delivery fools her, and she skies it wide of off, only for Sutherland to take a safe catch. Australia strikes again with smart bowling.

After an expensive over from Darcie Brown, with Harmanpreet wrapping it up with a boundary, Australia replaced her with Ashleigh Gardner. A much tighter over from the off spinner, restricting India to just singles. The run rate is hovering around the six mark.

Harleen Deol is run out! Sutherland’s sharp fielding and a quick throw catches her short of the crease. A big breakthrough for Australia as India loses their key batter.

Smriti Mandhana brings up her half-century in style! She clears the ropes with a magnificent six, marking her consecutive half-century and keeping India firmly in control of the innings.

India steady at 81 for 1 after 15 overs, but the run rate has dipped. Harleen Deol is struggling at the crease, scoring just 4 runs off 15 balls as the innings slows down.

Pratika Rawal departs! Gardner tosses it up slower outside off, tempting the drive. Rawal goes hard but mistimes it straight to Wareham at cover. First breakthrough for Australia.

India are cruising at 64 without loss after 10 overs. Smriti (33) and Pratika (23) laid a solid foundation, keeping the scoreboard ticking and putting pressure on the Australian bowlers early in the innings.

12th 50-plus stand for this pair in just 16 innings, the most for the opening wicket for India Women in the format, surpassing 11 between Karuna Jain and Jaya Sharma in 25 innings. They have also became the first pair to aggregate 1000-plus partnership runs (for any wicket) in a calendar year in Women's ODIs. This is their 10th 50-plus stand in 13 outings in 2025, another record.

Smriti Mandhana unleashes her second six of the match in the 6th over, sending the ball soaring over long-on. What a classy strike from the Women in Blue star!"

A steady start by the Indian openers. Also 7 runs have been leaked as extras already. Smriti Mandhana is looking in great touch as usual.

Pratika Rawal and Mandhana are at the crease. Pratika Rawal is on strike. Megan Schutt will open the attack.

And here we go!

India know that even a 300-run target isn't sufficient, so they would want their batters to convert their starts to a bigger knock.

2 changes for Australia. Darcie Brown and Georgia Voll come in for Kim Garth and Phoebe Litchfield. India also have made 2 changes today. Renuka and Arundhati are back. "Renuka is always there whenever we needed her, so it is good to have her back in the side." Harmanpreet said.

India Women: Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav, Renuka Singh Thakur, Kranti Goud

Australia Women: Alyssa Healy(w/c), Georgia Voll, Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Georgia Wareham, Alana King, Darcie Brown, Megan Schutt

"We are okay with that, we wanted to bat today. There are a few things we want to improve, about the matchups and when to take on the bowler and all those things, hopefullly we want to execute better today. We have made 2 changes today." Harmanpreet Kaur said

Australia Women have won the toss and have opted to field. "We are gonna bowl. Love the way wicket came on under the lights. Couple of nice days off, everyone is in a really good place which we are really happy about. Always a few areas we can improve on, there is always little things we can tinker about and that is what this series is all about." Alysa Healy said.

The India Women vs Australia Women, ODI series will be live-streamed on the JioHotstar app and website in India. The television broadcast of the matches will take place on the Star Sports Network channels in the country.

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