Indian women's cricket team in Australia in 2015–16

The India women's national cricket team toured Australia in January 2016 together with the Indian men cricket team. The tour included a series of three ODIs and three T20Is. The ODIs were part of the ICC Women's Championship.[1]

India women's tour of Australia
 
  Australia women India women
Dates 22 January 2016 – 7 February 2016
Captains Meg Lanning Mithali Raj
One Day International series
Results Australia women won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs Alex Blackwell (193) Mithali Raj (170)
Most wickets Ellyse Perry (9) Shikha Pandey (8)
Twenty20 International series
Results India women won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs Meg Lanning (87) Harmanpreet Kaur (70)
Most wickets Ellyse Perry (4) Jhulan Goswami (4)
Rajeshwari Gayakwad (4)
Player of the series Jhulan Goswami (Ind)

Squads
ODIs T20Is
 Australia[2]  India[3]  Australia[4]  India[5]

Tour match
22 January
14:00 AEDT (UTC+11)
Scorecard
Australia Governor-General XI
19/1 (4 overs)
v
Beth Mooney 9* (23)
No result
Drummoyne Oval, Sydney
Umpires: Claire Polosak (Aus) and David Taylor (Aus)
  • India Women won the toss and elected to field.
  • Rain interrupted play after 4 overs.

T20I series

1st T20I
26 January
14:00 ACDT (UTC+10:30)
Scorecard
Australia 
140/5 (20 overs)
v
 India
141/5 (18.4 overs)
Alyssa Healy 41* (15)
Poonam Yadav 2/26 (4 overs)
Harmanpreet Kaur 46 (31)
Megan Schutt 2/23 (4 overs)
India Women won by 5 wickets
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
Umpires: Geoff Joshua (Aus) and Sam Nogajski (Aus)
Player of the match: Harmanpreet Kaur (Ind)
  • India women won the toss and elected to field.
  • Beth Mooney and Naomi Stalenberg (Aus) both made their debut in WT20I.
  • This was India's highest successful run score in a T20I.[6]

2nd T20I
29 January
14:30 AEDT (UTC+11)
Scorecard
Australia 
125/8 (18 overs)
v
 India
69/0 (9.1 overs)
Meg Lanning 49 (39)
Jhulan Goswami 2/16 (4 overs)
Mithali Raj 37* (32)
India won by 10 wickets (DLS method)
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Umpires: Gerard Abood (Aus) and Geoff Joshua (Aus)
Player of the match: Jhulan Goswami (Ind)
  • India women won the toss and elected to field.
  • Rain reduced Australia Women's innings to 18 overs and India Women were set a target of 66 runs in 10 overs.
  • Lauren Cheatle (Aus) made her debut in WT20I.
  • This was India Women's first bilateral series win in any formats against Australia Women.[7]

3rd T20I
31 January
14:30 AEDT (UTC+11)
Scorecard
Australia 
5/136 (20 overs)
v
 India
8/121 (20 overs)
Ellyse Perry 55* (41)
Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/36 (4 overs)
Vellaswamy Vanitha 28 (25)
Ellyse Perry 4/12 (4 overs)
Australia won by 15 runs
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Umpires: Gerard Abood (Aus) and Sam Nogajski (Aus)
Player of the match: Ellyse Perry (Aus)
  • India women won the toss and elected to field.
  • Deepti Sharma (Ind) made her debut in WT20I.

ODI Series

1st ODI
ICC Women's Championship
2 February
10:00 AEDT (UTC+11)
Scorecard
Australia 
276/6 (50 overs)
v
 India
175 (46.5 overs)
Alex Blackwell 114 (112)
Shikha Pandey 3/32 (10 overs)
Harmanpreet Kaur 42 (72)
Ellyse Perry 4/45 (10 overs)
Australia Women won by 101 runs
Manuka Oval, Canberra
Umpires: Sam Nogajski (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus)
Player of the match: Alex Blackwell (Aus)

2nd ODI
ICC Women's Championship
5 February
10:00 AEDT (UTC+11)
Scorecard
India 
252/8 (50 overs)
v
 Australia
253/4 (46.4 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 102 (109)
Ellyse Perry 3/54 (10 overs)
Nicole Bolton 77 (74)
Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/42 (7.4 overs)
Australia won by 6 wickets
Bellerive Oval, Hobart
Umpires: Michael Graham-Smith (Aus) and Damien Mealey (Aus)
Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (Ind)

3rd ODI
ICC Women's Championship
7 February
10:00 AEDT (UTC+11)
Scorecard
Australia 
231/7 (50 overs)
v
 India
234/5 (47 overs)
Alex Blackwell 60 (64)
Shikha Pandey 3/50 (10 overs)
Mithali Raj 89 (113)
Ellyse Perry 2/50 (10 overs)
India Women won by 5 wickets
Bellerive Oval, Hobart
Umpires: Michael Graham-Smith (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus)
Player of the match: Mithali Raj (Ind)

References
  1. http://cricketaustralia.com.au/media/media-releases/match-schedules-announced-for-crickets-2015-16-summer/2015-07-09
  2. "Australia ODI Squad". ESPN. 12 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  3. "India ODI Squad". ESPN. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  4. "Australia T20I Squad". ESPN. 12 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  5. "India T20I Squad". ESPN. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  6. "India Women pull off record chase". ESPNcricinfo. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  7. Coverdale, Brydon (29 January 2016). "India Women celebrate historic series win". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
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