AUS-A Women vs IND-A Women: The only unofficial Test match is being played between India A Women and Australia A Women in Gold Coast. At present, Australia A Women’s team is in a strong position in this match. The Indian team had bundled out Australia for just 212 runs in the first innings, but despite this, the hosts have a total lead of 90 runs. India A team could not score a big score in their first innings.

After winning the toss and batting first, Australia A had a good start. There was a partnership of 56 runs for the first wicket. However, after this 3 wickets fell quickly and the score became 68/3. Captain Charli Knott could score only 3 runs. However, Georgia Voll remained at one end. She scored 71 runs with the help of 12 fours in 95 balls. After this, the middle order of the team was completely flopped.

Superb bowling by Minnu Mani and Priya Mishra

TEST. Day 2. End of 2nd Session – Australia A 47/3 in 20 Overs, Lead by 75 Runs https://t.co/rXFNsPuL03 #AUSAvINDA
— BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) August 23, 2024

The lower order batsmen played useful innings and took Australia A past 200. In the lower order, Maitlan Brown scored 30 and Kate Peterson scored 26 runs. Minnu Mani and Priya Mishra bowled superbly for India. Minnu Mani took 5 wickets for 58 runs in her 21 over spell. While Priya Mishra also took 4 wickets for 58 runs. In response, the performance of the Indian players who came to bat was not that good in the first innings. Shweta Sehrawat scored 40 runs with the help of 3 fours in 120 balls but Priya Poonia could score only 7 runs. Shubha Satish scored 22 and Tejas scored 32 runs. Raghvi Bisht was run out after scoring 16 runs.

In the lower order, Sayali Satghare scored 21, captain Minnu Mani scored 17 and Mannat Kashyap scored 19 runs to take the team to a score of 184. Kate Peterson took the maximum of 5 wickets for Australia. Australia, who came to bat in the second innings, has scored 62 runs at the loss of 4 wickets and their total lead has become 90 runs.

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Australia collapsed for just 212 runs, two Indian bowlers wreaked havoc