WC: World record! Australia creates history in Vizag with 3-wicket win over India

Australian skipper Alyssa Healy's masterful 142 disconnected 107 balls led her squad to a historical three-wicket triumph implicit India successful their World Cup lucifer connected Sunday, successfully chasing down 331 runs -- the highest-ever tally pursuit successful women's ODI cricket. The pursuit surpassed the erstwhile grounds of 302 runs acceptable by Sri Lanka against South Africa successful 2024, putting Australia astatine the apical of the tourney array with 7 points portion India remained 3rd with 4 points.Healy's innings included 21 boundaries and 3 sixes, demonstrating exceptional placement and timing. She peculiarly dominated Indian pacer Kranti Gaud, hitting a six and 3 fours successful a azygous over.Against Sneh Rana's fuller-length deliveries, Healy efficaciously utilized expanse shots to find gaps betwixt quadrate limb and mid-wicket. She reached her 50 successful 35 balls, the fastest successful this tournament.Sri Charani provided immoderate absorption for India with awesome figures of 10-1-41-3, including the important wickets of Phoebe Litchfield and Annabel Sutherland.Healy recovered beardown enactment successful Ashleigh Gardner, who contributed 45 runs successful their 95-run concern for the 4th wicket.

This concern proved important aft Ellyse Perry had to discontinue hurt.The Australian skipper reached her sixth WODI hundred, her archetypal arsenic captain, with a azygous disconnected Deepti Sharma. She was yet caught by substitute Radha Yadav disconnected Charani's bowling.Australia experienced immoderate hostility aft Healy's dismissal, losing Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, and

Sophie Molineux

successful speedy succession. However, Perry returned to implicit the pursuit with an unbeaten 47.Earlier, India's innings was anchored by awesome half-centuries from Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal. Their 155-run opening concern successful 24.3 overs acceptable a beardown instauration for India's full of 330.Mandhana's assertive 80 disconnected 66 balls included a peculiarly productive implicit against Sophie Molineux, wherever she scored 18 runs with a six and 2 fours.Rawal contributed 75 runs disconnected 96 balls, showing occasional flair against spinner Gardner.

Their concern marked their sixth 100-run basal successful 21 innings, approaching India's grounds of 7 betwixt Purnima Raut and Mithali Raj.During her innings, 29-year-old Mandhana achieved the milestone of 5000 runs successful WODIs, becoming the fastest and youngest subordinate to scope this mark.India's momentum concisely faltered aft Mandhana's dismissal, losing Rawal, skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, and Harleen Deol successful speedy succession, leaving them astatine 240 for 4 successful the 38th over.Richa Ghosh and Jemimah Rodrigues stabilized the innings with a 54-run concern for the 5th wicket, helping India propulsion towards their last total.Annabel Sutherland claimed awesome figures of 5/40, utilizing effectual slower deliveries successful the decease overs to restrict India's full to 330.The lucifer highlighted Australia's batting extent and pursuit capabilities, portion India's beardown batting show yet proved insufficient to unafraid victory.