Australia women's cricket team in India in 2023–24

The Australia women's cricket team toured India from December 2023 to January 2024 to play one Test, three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.^[1][2][3][4]

Australia women's cricket team in India in 2023–24
	India	Australia
Dates	21 December 2023 – 9 January 2024
Captains	Harmanpreet Kaur	Alyssa Healy
Test series
Result	India won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs	Smriti Mandhana (108)	Tahlia McGrath (123)
Most wickets	Sneh Rana (7)	Ashleigh Gardner (5)
One Day International series
Results	Australia won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Jemimah Rodrigues (151)	Phoebe Litchfield (260)
Most wickets	Deepti Sharma (7)	Georgia Wareham (7)
Player of the series	Phoebe Litchfield (Aus)
Twenty20 International series
Results	Australia won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Smriti Mandhana (106)	Alyssa Healy (89) Beth Mooney (89)
Most wickets	Deepti Sharma (5)	Georgia Wareham (5)
Player of the series	Alyssa Healy (Aus)

India won the only Test by 8 wickets, which was their first-ever win in the format against Australia.^[5][6]

Squads

India			Australia
Test^[7]	ODIs^[8]	T20Is^[9]	Test^[10]	ODIs^[11]	T20Is^[12]
Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Smriti Mandhana (vc) Yastika Bhatia (wk) Harleen Deol Richa Ghosh (wk) Rajeshwari Gayakwad Saika Ishaque Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Meghna Singh Titas Sadhu Shubha Satheesh Renuka Singh Sneh Rana Pooja Vastrakar Shafali Verma	Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Smriti Mandhana (vc) Yastika Bhatia (wk) Harleen Deol Richa Ghosh (wk) Saika Ishaque Mannat Kashyap Amanjot Kaur Shreyanka Patil Sneh Rana Jemimah Rodrigues Titas Sadhu Deepti Sharma Renuka Singh Pooja Vastrakar Shafali Verma	Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Smriti Mandhana (vc) Kanika Ahuja Yastika Bhatia (wk) Richa Ghosh (wk) Saika Ishaque Mannat Kashyap Amanjot Kaur Minnu Mani Shreyanka Patil Jemimah Rodrigues Titas Sadhu Deepti Sharma Renuka Singh Pooja Vastrakar Shafali Verma	Alyssa Healy (c, wk) Tahlia McGrath (vc) Darcie Brown Lauren Cheatle Ashleigh Gardner Kim Garth Heather Graham Jess Jonassen Alana King Phoebe Litchfield Beth Mooney (wk) Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Annabel Sutherland Georgia Wareham	Alyssa Healy (c, wk) Tahlia McGrath (vc) Darcie Brown Ashleigh Gardner Kim Garth Heather Graham Jess Jonassen Alana King Phoebe Litchfield Beth Mooney (wk) Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Annabel Sutherland Georgia Wareham	Alyssa Healy (c, wk) Tahlia McGrath (vc) Darcie Brown Ashleigh Gardner Kim Garth Heather Graham Grace Harris Jess Jonassen Alana King Phoebe Litchfield Beth Mooney (wk) Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Annabel Sutherland Georgia Wareham

On 14 November 2023, Cricket Australia (CA) announced the squads without naming any captain.^[13][14] On 8 December 2023, Alyssa Healy and Tahlia McGrath were named as captain and vice-captain respectively across all three formats.^[15][16]

Only Test

21–24 December 2023 Scorecard

Australia	v	India
219 (77.4 overs) Tahlia McGrath 50 (56) Pooja Vastrakar 4/53 (16 overs)		406 (126.3 overs) Deepti Sharma 78 (171) Ashleigh Gardner 4/100 (41 overs)
261 (105.4 overs) Tahlia McGrath 73 (177) Sneh Rana 4/63 (22 overs)		75/2 (18.4 overs) Smriti Mandhana 38* (61) Ashleigh Gardner 1/18 (9 overs)

India won by 8 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Narayanan Janani (Ind) Player of the match: Sneh Rana (Ind)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Richa Ghosh (Ind) and Lauren Cheatle (Aus) both made their Test debuts.
• This was India's first ever win against Australia in women's Tests.^[17]

ODI series

1st ODI

28 December 2023 13:30 (D/N) Scorecard

India   282/8 (50 overs)	v	Australia 285/4 (46.3 overs)
Jemimah Rodrigues 82 (77) Georgia Wareham 2/55 (9 overs)		Phoebe Litchfield 78 (89) Renuka Singh 1/30 (7 overs)

Australia won by 6 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Saidharshan Kumar (Ind) and Gayathri Venugopalan (Ind) Player of the match: Phoebe Litchfield (Aus)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Saika Ishaque (Ind) made her ODI debut.
• Women's Championship points: Australia 2, India 0.

2nd ODI

30 December 2023 13:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Australia   258/8 (50 overs)	v	India 255/8 (50 overs)
Phoebe Litchfield 63 (98) Deepti Sharma 5/38 (10 overs)		Richa Ghosh 96 (117) Annabel Sutherland 3/47 (9 overs)

Australia won by 3 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Vrinda Rathi (Ind) and Navdeep Singh (Ind) Player of the match: Annabel Sutherland (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Shreyanka Patil (Ind) made her ODI debut.
• Harleen Deol replaced Sneh Rana as a concussion substitute for India during the second innings of the match.^[18]
• Women's Championship points: Australia 2, India 0.

3rd ODI

2 January 2024 13:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Australia   338/7 (50 overs)	v	India 148 (32.4 overs)
Phoebe Litchfield 119 (125) Shreyanka Patil 3/57 (10 overs)		Smriti Mandhana 29 (29) Georgia Wareham 3/23 (6.4 overs)

Australia won by 190 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Saidharshan Kumar (Ind) and Gayathri Venugopalan (Ind) Player of the match: Phoebe Litchfield (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Mannat Kashyap (Ind) made her ODI debut.
• Deepti Sharma (Ind) took her 100th wicket in ODIs.^[19]
• Women's Championship points: Australia 2, India 0.

T20I series

1st T20I

5 January 2024 19:00 (N) Scorecard

Australia   141 (19.2 overs)	v	India 145/1 (17.4 overs)
Phoebe Litchfield 49 (32) Titas Sadhu 4/17 (4 overs)		Shafali Verma 64* (44) Georgia Wareham 1/20 (3.4 overs)

India won by 9 wickets DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai Umpires: Narayanan Janani (Ind) and Vinod Seshan (Ind) Player of the match: Titas Sadhu (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Smriti Mandhana (Ind) scored her 3,000th run in T20Is.^[20]

2nd T20I

7 January 2024 19:00 (N) Scorecard

India   130/8 (20 overs)	v	Australia 133/4 (19 overs)
Deepti Sharma 30 (27) Georgia Wareham 2/17 (4 overs)		Ellyse Perry 34* (21) Deepti Sharma 2/22 (4 overs)

Australia won by 6 wickets DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai Umpires: Madanagopal Kuppuraj (Ind) and Gayathri Venugopalan (Ind) Player of the match: Kim Garth (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to field.
• Ellyse Perry became the first cricketer from Australia to play 300 women's international matches.^[21]
• Deepti Sharma (Ind) scored her 1,000th run in T20Is.^[22]

3rd T20I

9 January 2024 19:00 (N) Scorecard

India   147/6 (20 overs)	v	Australia 149/3 (18.4 overs)
Richa Ghosh 34 (28) Annabel Sutherland 2/12 (4 overs)		Alyssa Healy 55 (38) Pooja Vastrakar 2/26 (3.4 overs)

Australia won by 7 wickets DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai Umpires: Vinod Seshan (Ind) and Gayathri Venugopalan (Ind) Player of the match: Annabel Sutherland (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to field.

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External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo