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'Shandar jeet mil gayi'- Fans react as India Women beat Australia Women by 8 wickets in one-off Test

India's first innings started formidably Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma stitching a 90-run partnership for the first wicket. The latter was the first one to be dissmissed for 40 runs

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India Women beat Australia Women by 8 wickets

India Women's Cricket Team defeated Australia Women in the one-off test at Mumbai's, Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. The hosts were given a target of 75 runs by the mighty Aussies which they chased down easily with eight wickets in hand. This is their first test victory against the Kangaroos. The Aussies won the toss and elected to bat first and they were bundled out for 219 runs with Pooja Vastrakar picking up four wickets in the first wicket. 

India's first innings started formidably Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma stitching a 90-run partnership for the first wicket. The latter was the first one to be dismissed for 40 runs. Mandhana scored 74 runs and missed a hundred. They lost quick wickets and were reduced to 147/3. Then wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh and Jemimah Rodrigues built a partnership of 113 runs between them for the fourth wicket with both the batters scoring half-centuries. 

The former scored 52 runs and the latter scored 73 runs. Again two quick wickets of captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Yastika Bhatia backfooted the hosts for some time but, an important between Pooja Vastrakar and Deepti Sharma made sure they scored past 400 runs. The latter scored the highest 78 runs for the side and they were bowled out for 406 runs. 

Bowlers shine for India 

In the second innings, the Aussies were at a good stage at 206/4, but they kept on losing wickets since then Tahila McGrath scored 73 runs, but they lost six wickets for 55 runs. With Sneh Rana picking up 4 wickets in the last day.  Shafali Verma was the first one to be dismissed in the run chase with Mandhana and Richa building a partnership of 51 runs and Jemimah Rodrigues's finishing touch of 12 runs helped India win their first game against the Aussies in the longest format of the game. 

After the game, Kaur said, "It is a reward for the hard work over the years. Credit to the coaches. We just try to keep it simple. We just thought if we can play positive cricket, that is why we put Richa up the order. We just wanted to keep putting the pressure. We just had to stay in the moment. We tried our best to get them early in the second innings, but that partnership in the middle did not let us. But we kept our faith in our bowling and it worked."

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