India A-Australia a women’s series : Minnu, Priya rattle hosts as India A take control on Day 1
Gold Coast, August 22
Spinners Minnu Mani and Priya Mishra shared nine wickets between them as India A bundled out Australia A for 212 to gain the upper hand on the first day of the one-off four-day game. India A reached 100/2 at stumps.
Skipper and off-spinner Minnu (5/58) and rookie leg-spinner Priya (4/58) put the Australian batting unit in a tailspin as they lost all the 10 wickets to the visiting slow bowlers.
The Australian batters struggled against Indian spinners and it was a continuation from the third One-day game last week when Priya troubled them with a five-wicket haul at Mackay.
Opener Georgia Voll (71 off 95 balls) was fluent during her stay but she fell to left-arm spinner Mannat Kashyap as the Australians slumped to 94/4.
It required resistance from their lower-order batters Maitlan Brown (30 off 49 balls) and Grace Parsons (35 off 55 balls) for the hosts to go past the 200-run mark.
India lost Priya Punia (7) very early in their innings to be reduced to 13/1. Shubha Satheesh also departed without contributing much. At 47/2, India needed a steadying partnership and Shweta Sehrawat (40 not out off 109 balls) provided that in the company of Tejal Hasabnis (31 not out off 64 balls).
Brief scores: Australia A: 212 all out in 65.5 overs (Voll 71; Minnu 5/58, Priya 4/58); India A: 100/2 in 36 overs (Shweta 40*, Tejal 31*).
Lord’s to host first-ever women’s Test between India and England
london: Lord’s, the ‘home of cricket’, will host its first-ever Women’s Test between India and England in 2026. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said that after playing a three-match ODI series against hosts England in July 2025, India will return in 2026 for a one-off Test. India will travel to England for a white-ball tour in 2025. A five-match T20 series will be followed by three ODIs. India have played nine Tests so far against England in their backyard from June 1986 with their last clash at Bristol in June 2021 ending in a draw.
