Overview
- Australia reached 282 in 44.1 overs for an eight-wicket win after India posted 281/7 in New Chandigarh.
- Phoebe Litchfield top-scored with 88 to earn Player of the Match, with Beth Mooney 77 not out and Annabel Sutherland 54 not out sealing the chase.
- India’s top order fired as Pratika Rawal (64), Smriti Mandhana (58) and Harleen Deol (54) hit fifties after a 114-run opening stand.
- Mandhana and Rawal set a new calendar-year partnership mark with 958 runs, surpassing Belinda Clark and Lisa Keightley’s 905 from 2000.
- Harmanpreet Kaur made her 150th ODI in the first international at Mullanpur, with the second match set for September 17 before the World Cup begins on September 30.