Indian women's cricket team in Australia in 2015–16

India women's tour of Australia
		Australia women		India women
Dates		22 January 2016 – 7 February 2016
Captains		Meg Lanning		Mithali Raj
One Day International series
Result		Australia women won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs		Alex Blackwell (193)		Mithali Raj (170)
Most wickets		Ellyse Perry (9)		Shikha Pandey (8)
Twenty20 International series
Result		India women won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs		Meg Lanning (87)		Harmanpreet Kaur (70)
Most wickets		Ellyse Perry (4)		Jhulan Goswami (4) Rajeshwari Gayakwad (4)
Player of the series		Jhulan Goswami (Ind)

The India women's national cricket team toured Australia in January 2016 together with the Indian men cricket team. The tour included a series of three ODIs and three T20Is. The ODIs were part of the ICC Women's Championship.^[1]

Squads

ODIs		T20Is
Australia[2]	India[3]	Australia[4]	India[5]
Meg Lanning (c) Alex Blackwell (vc) Kristen Beams Nicole Bolton Sarah Coyte Rene Farrell Holly Ferling Grace Harris Alyssa Healy (wk) Jess Jonassen Beth Mooney Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt	Mithali Raj (c) Jhulan Goswami (vc) Ekta Bisht Rajeshwari Gayakwad Ravi Kalpana (wk) Thirush Kamini Harmanpreet Kaur Veda Krishnamurthy Smriti Mandhana Niranjana Nagarajan Shikha Pandey Poonam Yadav Sneh Rana Poonam Raut Sushma Verma (wk)	Meg Lanning (c) Alex Blackwell (vc) Lauren Cheatle Sarah Coyte Rene Farrell Holly Ferling Grace Harris Alyssa Healy (wk) Jess Jonassen Beth Mooney Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Naomi Stalenberg	Mithali Raj (c) Jhulan Goswami (vc) Ekta Bisht Rajeshwari Gayakwad Thirush Kamini Harmanpreet Kaur Veda Krishnamurthy Smriti Mandhana Anuja Patil Poonam Yadav Deepti Sharma Vellaswamy Vanitha Sushma Verma (wk)

Tour match

22 January 14:00 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard

Australia Governor-General XI 19/1 (4 overs)	v	India Women
Beth Mooney 9* (23)

No result Drummoyne Oval, Sydney Umpires: Claire Polosak (Aus) and David Taylor (Aus)

• India Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain interrupted play after 4 overs.

T20I series

1st T20I

26 January 14:00 ACDT (UTC+10:30) Scorecard

Australia  140/5 (20 overs)	v	India 141/5 (18.4 overs)
Alyssa Healy 41* (15) Poonam Yadav 2/26 (4 overs)		Harmanpreet Kaur 46 (31) Megan Schutt 2/23 (4 overs)

India Women won by 5 wickets Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Umpires: Geoff Joshua (Aus) and Sam Nogajski (Aus) Player of the match: Harmanpreet Kaur (Ind)

• India women won the toss and elected to field.
• Beth Mooney and Naomi Stalenberg (Aus) made their debut in WT20I.
  
• This was India's highest successful run score in a T20I.^[6]

2nd T20I

29 January 14:30 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard

Australia  125/8 (18 overs)	v	India 69/0 (9.1 overs) D/L
Meg Lanning 49 (39) Jhulan Goswami 2/16 (4 overs)		Mithali Raj 37* (32)

India won by 10 wickets Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Umpires: Gerard Abood (Aus) and Geoff Joshua (Aus) Player of the match: Jhulan Goswami (Ind)

• India women won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain reduced Australia Women's innings to 18 overs and India Women were set a target of 66 runs in 10 overs.
• Lauren Cheatle (Aus) made her debut in WT20I.
  
• This was India Women's first bilateral series win in any formats against Australia Women.^[7]

3rd T20I

31 January 14:30 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard

Australia  5/136 (20 overs)	v	India 8/121 (20 overs)
Ellyse Perry 55* (41) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/36 (4 overs)		Vellaswamy Vanitha 28 (25) Ellyse Perry 4/12 (4 overs)

Australia won by 15 runs Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Umpires: Gerard Abood (Aus) and Sam Nogajski (Aus) Player of the match: Ellyse Perry (Aus)

• India women won the toss and elected to field.
• Deepti Sharma (Ind) made her debut in WT20I.

ODI Series

1st ODI

ICC Women's Championship 2 February 10:00 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard

Australia  276/6 (50 overs)	v	India 175 (46.5 overs)
Alex Blackwell 114 (112) Shikha Pandey 3/32 (10 overs)		Harmanpreet Kaur 42 (72) Ellyse Perry 4/45 (10 overs)

Australia Women won by 101 runs Manuka Oval, Canberra Umpires: Sam Nogajski (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus) Player of the match: Alex Blackwell (Aus)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Grace Harris (Aus) made her WODI debut.
• ICC Women's Championship points: Australia Women 2, India Women 0

2nd ODI

ICC Women's Championship 5 February 10:00 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard

India  252/8 (50 overs)	v	Australia 253/4 (46.4 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 102 (109) Ellyse Perry 3/54 (10 overs)		Nicole Bolton 77 (74) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/42 (7.4 overs)

Australia won by 6 wickets Bellerive Oval, Hobart Umpires: Michael Graham-Smith (Aus) and Damien Mealey (Aus) Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• ICC Women's Championship points: Australia Women 2, India Women 0

3rd ODI

ICC Women's Championship 7 February 10:00 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard

Australia  231/7 (50 overs)	v	India 234/5 (47 overs)
Alex Blackwell 60 (64) Shikha Pandey 3/50 (10 overs)		Mithali Raj 89 (113) Ellyse Perry 2/50 (10 overs)

India Women won by 5 wickets Bellerive Oval, Hobart Umpires: Michael Graham-Smith (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus) Player of the match: Mithali Raj (Ind)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Ellyse Perry (Aus) took her 100th ODI wicket.
• ICC Women's Championship points: Australia Women 0, India Women 2

References

1. http://cricketaustralia.com.au/media/media-releases/match-schedules-announced-for-crickets-2015-16-summer/2015-07-09
2. "Australia ODI Squad". ESPN. 12 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
3. "India ODI Squad". ESPN. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
4. "Australia T20I Squad". ESPN. 12 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
5. "India T20I Squad". ESPN. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
6. "India Women pull off record chase". ESPNcricinfo. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
7. Coverdale, Brydon (29 January 2016). "India Women celebrate historic series win". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 January 2016.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo