Women’s Test: Australia comes close to victory against India, know how the second day was

Updated: 07-03-2026, 06.51 PM

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Australia women’s cricket team has taken steps towards victory on the second day of the ongoing one-off Test against the Indian women’s cricket team. In response to India’s first innings score of 198 runs, Australia scored 323 runs in its first innings and took a significant lead of 125 runs. India scored 105/6 at the end of the day’s play in the second innings. He needs 20 runs to avoid innings defeat.

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This was the game of the second day

Australia scored a high score of 323 runs on the second day thanks to the century of Annabel Sutherland (129) and half-century of Ellyse Perry (76). Sayali Satghare took maximum 4 wickets for India. After falling behind by 125 runs, India’s batting in the second innings was also very poor and it lost 6 wickets for 82 runs. At the end of the day’s play, Pratika Rawal (43) and Sneh Rana (14) were frozen at the crease.

Sutherland scored his fourth test century

Sutherland batted brilliantly and scored a century for Australia. This was the fourth century of his Test career and the first against India, which he completed in 133 balls. He along with Perry (76) made a partnership of 128 runs in 169 balls. She faced 171 balls in the innings and was out after scoring 129 runs with the help of 17 fours. He now has 715 runs in 7 matches at an average of 89.38.

Perry scored 5th test half century

For the Kangaroo team, Perry also played an excellent half-century innings to get the team out of trouble. This was the 5th half-century of his Test career and only the second against India. She faced 116 balls in her innings and returned to the pavilion after scoring 76 runs, hitting 1 six and 10 fours. As soon as he scored the 70th run of the innings, he completed 1,000 runs in his Test career.

Perry is the second batsman to score 1,000 runs in all three formats.

With her 1,000 runs in Tests, Perry became only the second female batsman to score 1,000 runs in all three formats (Test, ODI and T20). He has scored 1,006 runs in Tests, 4,504 runs in ODIs and 2,201 runs in T-20 Internationals. Before her, only Charlotte Edwards of England has been able to achieve this feat. He has 1,676 runs in his name in Test cricket, 5,992 runs in ODI cricket and 2,605 runs in T-20 International.

Satghare from India performed brilliantly in his debut match

Satghare’s debut in the pink ball Test was a perfect start to the longest format of cricket. He performed brilliantly in the match and took 4 wickets in his name. She returned the wickets of Georgia Voll (2), Alyssa Healy (13), Alan King (21) and Lucy Hamilton (23). He bowled a total of 18.4 overs in the innings and achieved this success by conceding 50 runs with 2 maidens.