Australia v India: second women’s international T20 – live! | Sport

8th over: India 43-3 (Harmanpreet 26, Bhatia 2) When Harry met Perry! The Australian breaks records again, but Harmanpreet masters this. A simple leg peek for four, then a cutting shot that splits the field for another, and more adventurous, a flipped back shot shot for a third! That’s 15 from the end, the best of the Indian night.

7th plus: India 28-3 (Harmanpreet 13, Bhatia 1) Through the wicket comes Bhatia against Gardner, striking her through the square leg but spread there. Then Harmanpreet is almost exhausted, wanting to go back for a second, but Bhatia says no, and Harmanpreet turns around and dives into his ground just before Healy breaks the stumps.

6th over: India 25-3 (Harmanpreet 11, Bhatia 0) To Yastika Bhatia, the promising young woman on this side. She has played very well so far in the series, but either in the first knockdown or coming in with a few runs on the board. Today he has a more important job to do. The southpaw goes down and hits Molineux flat and straight, but the pitcher stops the shot.

End of power play, dominant for Australia.

Molineux returns with the ball, Lanning mixing and matching. Rodrigues tries to cut off his stumps, but he can’t do it a couple of times. So switch up, going down the track to hit on the side of the leg. You don’t buy much, and Darlington in midwicket gets a simple one.

5th in final: India 24-2 (Rodrigues 7, Harmanpreet 10) Almost a third for Vlaeminck! Rodrigues pressed to the middle of the field and got away from the SUV that dove and put his left hand, but close to the ground and he cannot hold himself.

That puts Harmanpreet on strike, and he lands the convincing first shot for India! One quick flick of the pads, the leg stump line and is comfortably shipped over the square leg for four. On the next ball, Vlaeminck moves his line a few inches out, but Harmanpreet shuffles the same way. Indeed, the same delivery and the same result.

Harmanpreet looked great on all five balls he faced the other night after a long injury break. Equally crispy tonight.

4th over: India 14-2 (Rodrigues 6, Harmanpreet 1) Ellyse Perry goes bowling early, in the game where she beats Alex Blackwell’s record for most games for Australia. Bowling is nice too, a bit of swing off the starting stump, and just a couple of singles conceded as Rodrigues nears deep third and Harmanpreet throws a short one.

3rd in final: India 12-2 (Rodrigues 5, Harmanpreet 0) One ball remains in the Vlaeminck, which overcomes the outer edge of Harmanpreet as the captain pushes towards the line.

Two for Tay. Verma steps back to the side of the leg and crosses the line, trying to send this center somewhere. Anywhere. Instead, it sends it too far, which counts as a place, but is the wrong kind of place. Darlington, standing in the painting midway, takes the catch. Both starters left, that really throws up India.

2nd over: India 9-1 (Verma 3, Rodrigues 2) Sophie Molineux with a left arm twist from the other end, the same power play tactic Australia used the other night to no avail. This time she was hit by three limits, this time the batters hit four singles.

1st over: India 5-1 (Verma 1) Tayla Vlaeminck receives the new ball like she did the other night. The fastest in Australia’s arsenal, and its warm-up deliveries are already close to 120 km / h. He catches the first ball that is deflected to Mandhana, who does well to keep it off his pads in front of the middle stump and hit a single. Verma is on strike and can do all kinds of things. He hit three sixes while doing 18 the other night, he didn’t score a run other than six.

However, Vlaeminck is not entirely smooth: wide bowls along the side of the leg, then overhang. Mandhana gets the free kick but hits it squarely at Darlington midway. Wide again to follow, a nine ball.

But that puts Vlaeminck in the wicket. With the ninth ball, Mandhana hits across the line, a thick inside rim that squirts out into the midwicket and Carey can lunge up and shove his hands under it. All the opening salvo.

Both unchanged from Thursday night.

India
Shafali Verma
Smriti mandhana
Jemimah rodrigues
Harmanpreet Kaur *
Yastika bhatia
Richa Ghosh +
Pooja vastrakar
Deepti Sharma
Shikha pandey
Rajeshwari Gayakwad
Renuka singh

Australia
Alyssa Healy +
Beth mooney
Meg Lanning *
Ashleigh gardner
Ellyse perry
Tahlia mcgrath
Nicola Carey
Sophie molineux
Georgia Wareham
Hannah darlington
Tayla vlaeminck

The same as in the first match of T20, then, when the Australians put India in and were transported everywhere. This should be fun.