India Women (IND-W) vs Australia Women (AUS-W) 1st T20I Live Cricket Score Updates: Harmanpreet Kaur opted to bowl first as India lock horns against Sophie Molineux’s Australia in the first of the three-match T20I series at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney on Sunday. This is the first game India will play after they thrashed Sri Lanka at the end of last year in a five-match series.
Young Vaishnavi Sharma had been the find of that series, and India will be looking to test their strengths further against Australia going into the 2026 T20 World Cup later this year. Australia, on the other hand, will have a new captain in the shortest format, with Alyssa Healy announcing her retirement (she will still play in the ODIs and one-off Test).
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India will be looking to alter the dominant record that Australia have over them. In 35 games played so far in women’s T20Is, Australia has won 26 and India has only managed to win seven of them.
Playing XIs for AUS vs IND T20Is
AUSTRALIA XI: Beth Mooney (wk), Georgia Voll, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Ash Gardner, Georgia Wareham, Annabel Sutherland, Nicola Carey, Sophie Molineux (c), Kim Garth, Darcie Brown.
INDIA XI: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimha Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Kranti Gaud, Sree Charani, Renuka Singh Thakur.
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They might have been dethroned as World Champions in both T20Is and ODIs, but there is little doubt that Australia remain the gold standard in women’s cricket. And India, who did the dethroning from the 50-over format in Navi Mumbai on that famous October night not so long ago, should know that better than anyone. Harmanpreet Kaur’s side has fallen at the Australian hurdle enough times in the past. READ MORE