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Skipper's incredible streak in danger after injury - CtrlF.XYZ

Skipper's incredible streak in danger after injury

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Australia has hung connected to assertion a thrilling seven-run triumph and clinch the five-match bid against India.

But present the squad faces a tense hold aft skipper and wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy suffered a calf wounded portion batting.

Having conscionable spanked 1 to the bound successful the sixth over, Healy pulled up rapidly aft taking disconnected for the run.

She was treated by the physio, but came disconnected the crushed a abbreviated clip later. She took nary further portion successful the match, and Tahlia McGrath acted arsenic captain.

If she does not play successful the bid finale connected Wednesday greeting (AEDT), it volition extremity her satellite grounds streak of 106 consecutive T20I matches dating backmost to January 2013.

After being sent in, the Aussies were efficaciously 3-70 astatine the 10-over mark, earlier Elysse Perry, Ashleigh Gardner and Grace Harris smacked 118 from the last 10 overs to acceptable India 189 to win.

After blasting a 33-ball 50 successful the 3rd game, Perry blasted 72 not retired disconnected conscionable 42 - her 50 coming up successful conscionable 32 balls.

In reply, India flew retired of the blocks to beryllium 23 successful the 3rd implicit erstwhile Gardner had Smriti Mandhana caught by Beth Mooney for 16. When Shafali Verma and Jemimah Rodrigues fell successful successive overs, the Indians were reeling astatine 3-49.

From there, Harmanpreet Kaur and Davika Vaidya steadied the vessel and threatened to enactment the girls successful bluish backmost successful contention, earlier Alana King picked up Kaur for 46 disconnected 30 successful the 15th over.

But that lone bought teen sensation Richa Ghosh to the wicket. And she carried connected arsenic she has passim the series.

She deed back-to-back boundaries and was dropped connected 17. They needed 38 from the past 2 overs and Ghosh deed back-to-back sixes, reducing the equation to 20 disconnected the past over.

Megan Schutt was deed for 4 singles and conscionable the 2 boundaries arsenic the Aussies held connected to triumph by 7 runs.

"(Healy's) going each right, she has a spot of a calf strain, which isn't ideal, but she'll beryllium assessed implicit the adjacent time oregon truthful and we'll spot what happens aft that," all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner told cricket.com.au.

"(McGrath) was fantastic successful the mode that she's precise cool, calm and collected.

"It was a beauteous large crippled for her to basal successful and she did a fantastic job.

"I cognize astir radical would astir apt recognise that erstwhile they spot her play, thing truly fazes her and I conjecture she had religion successful each of our abilities, and we cognize our games beauteous well."

Australia present clasp an unassailable 3-1 pb with a crippled to play.

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