The Indian women’s cricket team registered a historic victory against Australia in the single Test played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. India opener Smriti Mandhana said it was not very difficult to advance on the Wankhede track.

Smriti Mandhana remained unbeaten in the second innings scoring a spirited 38 off 61 balls to guide India to an eight-wicket win against Alyssa Healy’s team. This was the Indian women’s team’s first victory against Australia in Test cricket.

Sneh Rana and Pooja Vastrakar picked seven and five wickets respectively in the entire match to induce two batting failures for Australia, making them 219 and 261 respectively. India had a big lead in the first innings when they scored 406 with the help of half-centuries from Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh and Deepti Sharma.

“It was not that difficult. Before the match, we thought there was going to be a rank change on days three and four. But if you applied yourself and showed patience, hitting wasn’t that difficult. Credit to all the batsmen. I told Shafali to bat like we did in the first innings. Just reacting to the ball, that was the only message we had. He was unlucky, but he started off wonderfully with that cover campaign.” Mandhana said.

Jemimah Rodrigues expressed her joy after the Indian team’s consecutive victories. In the test match held just before Australia, India beat England by 347 runs. Rodrigues considered the win the best possible Christmas gift and said he is happy to be consistent with his process.

“I always wanted to play Test cricket. Nothing like winning two tests in a row. Christmas has come early. I had set some goals for myself, one of which was to be consistent. “I keep working hard, I don’t think much about the results, I had to be consistent with my process,” Jemimah said after the game.

Indian women’s team wins first test match against Australia

The Indian women’s cricket team had never won a Test match against Australia before this victory, making it a significant achievement for Harmanpreet Kaur and Co. Australia won the toss and elected to bat first to be tied at 219. Pooja Vastrakar took a four-fer in the first innings and Sneh Rana took three wickets to bring about the collapse of the Australians.

India Women scored 406 runs in their first innings with Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh and Deepti Sharma scoring their respective half-centuries. Australia were then tied at 261 when Sneh Rana took four fers in the second innings, taking his match wicket tally to seven wickets. India achieved an easy target of 74 runs in the final innings, which they achieved convincingly with eight wickets to spare.

Now Women In Blue will take on Australia in the white-ball match that will include three ODIs and three T20Is with the ODI series starting on December 28. The Indian team’s squad for ODIs and T20Is is yet to be announced. India Women will look to win the ODI and T20I series to achieve a complete victory on the circuit. Australia.