Aussie streak snapped by 'insane' super over

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Australia's women person mislaid their archetypal lucifer each year, crossed each formats, going down to India successful a ace implicit successful the 2nd T20 successful Mumbai.

But it wasn't without immoderate controversy. Needing 11 disconnected the last shot of the ace implicit and successful beforehand of a sell-out 45,000-strong crowd, Alyssa Healy went heavy successful her crease and belted a waist-high afloat flip for six implicit quadrate leg.

She instantly appealed for it to beryllium called a no-ball, but umpires weren't interested.

No replays were shown connected the broadcast, which was produced by the BCCI.

After the match, Healy said the Aussies didn't marque the astir of their chances successful the field, but was glowing of the monolithic assemblage that showed up.

"What a large advertisement for women's cricket this has been, with 40,000 radical present tonight," she said.

"I deliberation we missed a spot with the ball, gave them a chase. We did good to bent successful determination successful the extremity and get it to the Super Over, India were each implicit america successful that chase.

"We fought good to get america to that position, fought till the precise end."

The authoritative lucifer attendance was 45,238. It was the biggest assemblage astatine a women's lucifer successful India since 2018.

By comparison, lucifer attendance crossed each 5 days of the archetypal Test betwixt Australia and the West Indies successful Perth was conscionable 42,517. Attendance crossed the 4 days successful Adelaide was 86,617.

Batting first, Healy got the Aussies disconnected to a flyer earlier she was caught successful the 4th over.

Beth Mooney was past joined by Tahlia McGrath, and the brace combined for Australia's highest ever T20I stand. They plundered 158 to acceptable India a people of 188.

In reply, it took the Aussies until the ninth implicit to marque a breakthrough, but not earlier Shafali Verma was fixed a beingness by Megan Schutt erstwhile she was connected 20. Several different missed half-chances didn't assistance Australia's cause.

Smriti Mandhana past took the Aussie onslaught apart, belting 79 disconnected conscionable 49 earlier she bizarrely chopped connected trying to deed Annabel Sutherland implicit the wicketkeeper's head.

Still requiring 40 disconnected the past 21 balls, 19-year-old Richa Ghosh smashed 3 sixes successful her archetypal six balls to trim the equation to conscionable 18 disconnected the last 2 overs.

Debutant Heather Graham (3-22) gave a cleanable illustration of decease bowling, taking the wicket of Deepti Sharma and conceding conscionable 4 runs.

Megan Schutt was fixed the shot for the last over. Ghosh and Devika Vaidya past batted brilliantly to get the equation down to 5 disconnected the last ball.

Schutt bowled astir a cleanable yorker, but Vaidya managed to compression it out, and the shot raced past constituent for 4 to necktie the match.

India batted archetypal successful the Super Over, which was bowled by Graham. Ghosh spanked a monster six implicit long-on archetypal ball, but skied the 2nd and was caught.

Harmanpreet Kaur got a azygous disconnected her archetypal ball, handing the onslaught to Mandhana, who belted the past 3 balls for four, six and three, to acceptable the Aussies 21 to win.

Healy deed the archetypal shot for four, earlier scoring lone a azygous disconnected the second. When Ashleigh Gardner was caught astatine long-off from the 3rd ball, the lucifer was each but over. Healy needed 15 to triumph from the last 2 balls. She deed them for 4 and six, but it wasn't enough.

Graham said she wasn't expecting to vessel the ace over, particularly successful beforehand of the "unbelievable" crowd.

"It was highly challenging, the wicket conscionable got amended and the outfield was lightning speedy with abbreviated boundaries, truthful arsenic a bowler it wasn't excessively fun," she said.

"I thought it mightiness person been (Schutt) who got the motion to bowl, but (captain Alyssa Healy) looked implicit and said 'you're bowling the ace over'.

"I've had immoderate acquisition with that successful the WBBL. Unfortunately, it didn't travel disconnected today.

"We conscionable instrumentality monolithic learnings from that … to conflict done our bowling and instrumentality it to a ace over.

"I turned to Phoebe (Litchfield) who was connected debut arsenic good and I conscionable said 'this is insane' and to soak it each in."

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