India vs Australia, Women’s World Cup, Live Score Updates: Meg Lanning Hits Fifty As Australia Cruise In Chase vs India

Fifty – Meg Lanning reaches a brilliant fifty

Australia’s captain Meg Lanning reached a brilliant fifty off 56 balls and along with Ellyse Perry, played cautiously

Aus Women 187/2 after 33.2 overs

50 Partnership – Ellyse Perry and Meg Lanning

Ellyse Perry and Meg Lanning have added 50 runs now – 54 in 65 balls – for the third wicket

India will look to break this stand as soon as possible

Aus Women 172/2 after 31.1 overs

Australian skipper Meg Lanning is leading from the front here

Australian captain Meg Lanning is showcasing utmost authority and control over her shot-making and is cautiously keeping the scoreboard ticking as well along with Ellyse Perry

Aus Women 164/2 after 30 overs – Need 114 more runs to win from 120 balls

India bowlers need to strike hard in these middle-overs

Australia collects 10 runs from Meghna’s seventh over as skipper Meg Lanning takes charge

Aus Women 154/2 after 27 overs

Four – Lanning hits a much-needed boundary off Vastrakar

Vastrakar is hit for a splendid four by skipper Meg Lanning to bring some much-needed relief 

Aus Women 141/2 after 24.3 overs

Aus Women need 143 more runs to win

Aus Women need 143 more runs to win and become the first team to cement a place in the semi-finals

All hopes are pinned to the likes of Ellyse Perry and Meg Lanning

Aus Women 135/2 after 24 overs

Wicket – Rachel Haynes is dimmissed by Vastrakar

Pooja Vastrakar is having a good game today

After a good cameo with the bat, she is doing the job with the ball as well

She gets Rachel Haynes for 43 runs

Aus Women 123/2 after 21 overs

Wicket – Alyssa Healy departs for 72 runs

Aus Women 118/0 after 18 overs

Australian openers Alyssa Healy and Rachel Haynes have given the start that the team wanted in their bid to chase 278 runs

An unbeaten century-run stand between the two and still going strong

Aus Women 118/0 after 18 overs

Fifty – Alyssa Healy completes her 15th ODI half-century

Australia opener Alyssa Healy scored a remarkable fifty and got able support from Rachael Haynes as they started brilliantly in their run-chase

Healy’s half-ton puts Australia in a commanding position inside the first 15 overs of the run-chase

Aus Women 88/0 after 14.3 overs

Australian openers continue their dominant display

Five runs from Pooja Vastrakar’s over as Australian openers continue to score at a rapid pace

Aus Women 76/0 after 12 overs

Four – Haynes ruins an almost good over by Vastrakar

Pooja Vastrakar bowls five good balls but strays on the last as she is pulled towards the mid-wicket boundary by Haynes

Aus Women 67/0 after 10 overs

Four – Haynes cuts Gayakwad for a boundary

Gayakwad seems to have lost her plot a little as she is providing a lot of room outside the off-stump for Haynes and Healy

Aus Women 60/0 after 8.3 overs

Aus Women 53/0 after 8 overs

It looks like a dream start for the Aussies here in Auckland, chasing a mammoth total of 278 runs for victory

Aus Women 53/0 after 8 overs

Four – Haynes guides a wayward leg-sidish delivery for a boundary

Rachel Haynes makes most of the bad ball delivered by Gayakwad for a superb boundary to ruin a good over by the spinner

Aus Women 50/0 in 7 overs

Spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad into the attack now

Rajeshwari Gayakwad has been brought into the attack now

She has a total of 8 wickets in this WC and will look to add to that tally some Australian batters as well

Aus Women 43/0 after 6 overs

Aus Women 29/0 after 4 overs

Australia remain on track in the run-chase with openers looking solid in the middle

Aus Women 29/0 after 4 overs

Four- Healy hits Meghna for a superb four

Both Healy and Haynes are collecting runs at a brilliant rate off the Indian pacers

Goswami concedes 5 off the third over and then Healy hits Meghna for a fabulous boundary off the first ball of the fourth over

Aus Women 25/0 after 3.2 overs

Meghna Singh also proves expensive in her first over

Another good over for Australia as Meghna goes for 7 in her first over

Goswami to continue from the other end

Aus Women 15/0 after 2 overs

Four – Alyssa Healy welcomes Meghna Singh with boundary

Alyssa Healy continues the positive attitude against pacer Meghna Singh as well

Welcomes her with a boundary down the leg side

Aus Women 12/0 after 1.1 overs

Four – Healy starts positively vs Goswami

Alyssa Healy has started in a positive fashion as she hits a fabulous four off Goswami

The batting side will need to keep a high-end run-rate in order to stay in the chase

Aus Women 8/0 after 1 over

Australian run-chase of 278 runs begins vs India

Australia openers Alyssa Healy and Rachael Haynes are in the middle

Pacer Jhulan Goswami starts proceedings for India

Aus Women 0/0 after 0.1 over

India finish at 277/7 in 50 overs

Indian batters put on a special performance towards the end as they posted 277/7 in their 50 overs

Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet Kaur, Yastika Bhatia and Pooja Vastrakar all added valuable runs towards the end to propel the score past the 270-run mark

Darcie Brown took 3/30 in 8 overs

ICC Women’s WC. WICKET! 49.6: Pooja Vastrakar 34(28) Run Out Jess Jonassen, India Women 277/7 https://t.co/SLZ4bayb4f #INDvAUS #CWC22

— BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) March 19, 2022

50 Partnership – Vastrakar and Harmanpreet give India necessary push

Kaur and Pooja have added valuable runs as they compete their 50-run partnership for the seventh wicket

Four – Harmanpreet Kaur, Pooja Vastrakar hit Alana King all around the ground

Harmanpreet Kaur and Pooja Vastrakar blasted 17 runs off Alana Kings over to provide India the necessary push towards a big total

India Women 242/6 after 46 overs

Wickets – Richa and Rana depart in quick succession

Harmanpreet Kaur remains key to India’s hopes of putting up a big total

Harmanpreet is going after Australia’s bowling quite early in her innings as she hopes to help India post a big total

Kaur has raced to 26 runs off 26 balls

India Women 205/4 after 40.3 overs

Wicket – Mithali Raj departs to Alana King

Wicket – Yastika Bhatia departs to Darcie Brown for 59 runs

Yastika finally departs to Darcie Brown for 59 runs as the partnership with Mithali comes to an end

Harmanpreet Kaur joins Mithali in the middle

India Women 158/3 after 31.2 overs

50s – Both Mithali and Yastika Bring up their fifties

Both Yastika Bhatia and skipper Mithali Raj brought up their respective half-centuries as they helped India revere after a poor start

India Women 151/2 after 30.2 overs

Four – Mithali guides Gardener for a four behind the stumps

Mithali Raj uses Ashleigh Gardner’s pace behind the ball and intelligently guides the bowler behind the stumps for a boundary

India Women 97/2 after 21.1 overs

India batters playing cautiously in the middle-overs

Yastika and Mithali Raj Stand reaching 50 runs

The partnership between Yastika and Mithali Raj has reached 47 runs off 63 balls

India will aim to recover well before going for it in the latter stages

India Women 75/2 after 16 overs

12 balls in the over so far by Perry – No control over the wides being bowled

Ellyse Perry bowls a 12-ball over, struggles to cope up with the wides

The windy conditions aren’t really helping Perry at all

India Women 60/2 in 12 overs

Four – Yastika into the act now, hits a boundary off Perry

Yastika guides one behind the stumps off Perry to gather a much-needed boundary

India 50/2 after 11.2 overs

India trying to rebuild after twin blows early in the innings

Wicket – Shafali departs for 12 runs, Brown strikes

After Smriti Mandhana’s early wicket, fellow Indian opener Shafali Verma also departed soon for 12 runs as pacer Darcie Brown struck again for Australia

India Women 28//2 after 6 overs

Six – Shafali gets going with a huge six

Wicket – India lose early wicket as Mandhana is dismissed

Another good over by Megan Schutt

Megan Schutt bowls a tight over again, concedes only one run

India Women 11/0 after 3 overs