Australia vs India: Women’s Test, Day 1 – LIVE!

Australia do not have Rachel Haynes, who has been ruled out of the series with a hamstring injury, which means little improvement and the inclusion of 19-year-old all-rounder Annabel Sutherland. He is one of four Test debutants along with Darcy Brown, Stella Campbell and Georgia Wareham. Campbell We have heard that Mitchell Starc is getting some tips on how to bowl with the pink ball.

Meghna Singh and Yastika Bhatia are two budding actors from India.

Pitch looks even, surface hard. Lanning’s call to bowl first isn’t surprising – conditions are prime for a little swing – and Mithali said she would have picked the same thing after the toss.

Will moisture be a factor? Apparently a chemical is used to help negate the dew factor, which has been used before in the BBL.

Australia XI: Alyssa Healy (wk), Beth Mooney, Meg Lanning (c), Ellyse Perry, Tahlia McGrath, Ashley Gardner, Annabel Sutherland, Sophie Molineux, Georgia Wareham, Darcy Brown, Stella Campbell

India XI: Smriti Mandhana, Shafail Verma, Puman Raut, Mithali Raj (c), Yastika Bhatia, Deepti Sharma, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Pooja Vastrakar, Jhulan Goswami, Meghna Singh, Rajeshwari Gayakwad

Lanning has just won the toss and decided to bowl.

“The wicket looks fresh,” she says. “There’s a bit of weather, but we’re looking forward to getting back from there.”

The sky is a bit dark, but the rain has stopped at Carrara Stadium, at least for now.

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of Australia’s Test against India. This is the first between these sides since 2006. None of the Australian players involved in that victory are still around. Significantly, India’s captain Mithali Raj and fast bowler Jhulan Goswami are still there. In general, thought, suffice it to say that it has been a while.

Women have been given little opportunity to play the oldest and longest format of the game, and all eight Tests in Australia in the past 15 years have been against England. But now Baggy is greened out and this four-day match will be a real test of sports management from both the sides. Twenty-six consecutive ODI wins tell us what Meg Lanning’s team can do in a day, and India’s thrilling success in preventing Australia from finishing 27th on Sunday indicates the tourists may have their tails up. That would be a different kettle of fish though. Lanning was conservative against England in 2019, and India showed patience to pull off a draw against England in June this year.

The score is 4-2 over Australia in this multi-format series. We are in the spotlight with the pink ball, and this is only the second time in women’s cricket that these two elements have been featured. let’s get going.