Indian Women’s Team will be gearing up tomorrow for playing their first solo Pink Ball Test without Harmanpreet Kaur who is suffering from the injury and the team will be eager to start their campaign in a one-off Test match against Australia on a winning note.
Talking about Women’s in Blue performance in recently conducted three-match ODI series, they lost the series by 1-2 however opinions can be built upon second ODI where a no-ball was given at the last moment which changed the face of the Indian women’s team who was winning that match and suddenly went in favor of Australia.
Australia will be playing their second Pink ball Test at Carrara Queensland however they played their first pink-ball Test in 2017 against England in 2017 and that was also the first Test match which was played from that ball in the history of women’s cricket.
That match between England and Australia women’s team was played at North Sydney Oval and the best thing about that clash was it ended in a draw and it garnered a lot of attention from fans, former cricketer and experts available on the ground.
There were three players, namely, Amanda-Jade Wellington, Beth Mooney, and Tahlia McGrath making their debut for Australia, while England had Fran Wilson and Sophie Ecclestone playing their first Test match.
Toss was won by England who were bowled out on 280 runs in 116 overs and the two batters Tammy Beaumont and Heather Knight with scores of 70 and 62 runs respectively came for the rescue. Australia in reply scored a mammoth total of 449 runs at a loss of nine wickets in 166 overs which included a double century from ace all-rounder Ellyse Perry who scored 213 runs including 27 boundaries and a solitary six. In the second innings, English batters look more solid in the middle where they scored 206 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 105 runs, and eventually, the match ended in a draw.
