The Australia women's cricket team toured India from December 2023 to January 2024 to play one Test, three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.[1][2][3][4]

India won the only Test by 8 wickets, which was their first-ever win in the format against Australia.[5][6]

Squads

 India  Australia
Test[7] ODIs[8] T20Is[9] Test[10] ODIs[11] T20Is[12]

On 14 November 2023, Cricket Australia (CA) announced the squads without naming any captain.[13][14] On 8 December 2023, Alyssa Healy and Tahlia McGrath were named as captain and vice-captain respectively across all three formats.[15][16]

Only Test

21–24 December 2023
Scorecard
v
219 (77.4 overs)
Tahlia McGrath 50 (56)
Pooja Vastrakar 4/53 (16 overs)
406 (126.3 overs)
Deepti Sharma 78 (171)
Ashleigh Gardner 4/100 (41 overs)
261 (105.4 overs)
Tahlia McGrath 73 (177)
Sneh Rana 4/63 (22 overs)
75/2 (18.4 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 38* (61)
Ashleigh Gardner 1/18 (9 overs)
India won by 8 wickets
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Narayanan Janani (Ind)
Player of the match: Sneh Rana (Ind)
  • Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Richa Ghosh (Ind) and Lauren Cheatle (Aus) both made their Test debuts.
  • This was India's first ever win against Australia in women's Tests.[17]

ODI series

1st ODI

28 December 2023
13:30 (D/N)
Scorecard
India 
282/8 (50 overs)
v
 Australia
285/4 (46.3 overs)
Jemimah Rodrigues 82 (77)
Georgia Wareham 2/55 (9 overs)
Phoebe Litchfield 78 (89)
Renuka Singh 1/30 (7 overs)
Australia won by 6 wickets
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Umpires: Saidharshan Kumar (Ind) and Gayathri Venugopalan (Ind)
Player of the match: Phoebe Litchfield (Aus)
  • India won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Saika Ishaque (Ind) made her ODI debut.
  • Women's Championship points: Australia 2, India 0.

2nd ODI

30 December 2023
13:30 (D/N)
Scorecard
Australia 
258/8 (50 overs)
v
 India
255/8 (50 overs)
Phoebe Litchfield 63 (98)
Deepti Sharma 5/38 (10 overs)
Richa Ghosh 96 (117)
Annabel Sutherland 3/47 (9 overs)
Australia won by 3 runs
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Umpires: Vrinda Rathi (Ind) and Navdeep Singh (Ind)
Player of the match: Annabel Sutherland (Aus)

3rd ODI

2 January 2024
13:30 (D/N)
Scorecard
Australia 
338/7 (50 overs)
v
 India
148 (32.4 overs)
Phoebe Litchfield 119 (125)
Shreyanka Patil 3/57 (10 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 29 (29)
Georgia Wareham 3/23 (6.4 overs)
Australia won by 190 runs
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Umpires: Saidharshan Kumar (Ind) and Gayathri Venugopalan (Ind)
Player of the match: Phoebe Litchfield (Aus)
  • Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Mannat Kashyap (Ind) made her ODI debut.
  • Deepti Sharma (Ind) took her 100th wicket in ODIs.[19]
  • Women's Championship points: Australia 2, India 0.

T20I series

1st T20I

5 January 2024
19:00 (N)
Scorecard
Australia 
141 (19.2 overs)
v
 India
145/1 (17.4 overs)
Phoebe Litchfield 49 (32)
Titas Sadhu 4/17 (4 overs)
Shafali Verma 64* (44)
Georgia Wareham 1/20 (3.4 overs)
India won by 9 wickets
DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai
Umpires: Narayanan Janani (Ind) and Vinod Seshan (Ind)
Player of the match: Titas Sadhu (Ind)
  • India won the toss and elected to field.
  • Smriti Mandhana (Ind) scored her 3,000th run in T20Is.[20]

2nd T20I

7 January 2024
19:00 (N)
Scorecard
India 
130/8 (20 overs)
v
 Australia
133/4 (19 overs)
Deepti Sharma 30 (27)
Georgia Wareham 2/17 (4 overs)
Ellyse Perry 34* (21)
Deepti Sharma 2/22 (4 overs)
Australia won by 6 wickets
DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai
Umpires: Madanagopal Kuppuraj (Ind) and Gayathri Venugopalan (Ind)
Player of the match: Kim Garth (Aus)
  • Australia won the toss and elected to field.
  • Ellyse Perry became the first cricketer from Australia to play 300 women's international matches.[21]
  • Deepti Sharma (Ind) scored her 1,000th run in T20Is.[22]

3rd T20I

9 January 2024
19:00 (N)
Scorecard
India 
147/6 (20 overs)
v
 Australia
149/3 (18.4 overs)
Richa Ghosh 34 (28)
Annabel Sutherland 2/12 (4 overs)
Alyssa Healy 55 (38)
Pooja Vastrakar 2/26 (3.4 overs)
Australia won by 7 wickets
DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai
Umpires: Vinod Seshan (Ind) and Gayathri Venugopalan (Ind)
Player of the match: Annabel Sutherland (Aus)
  • Australia won the toss and elected to field.

References

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