VISAKHAPATNAM, India — VISAKHAPATNAM, India (AP) — Alyssa Healy scored 142 as Australia beat India by three wickets within the highest profitable run chase in girls’s one-day worldwide cricket.

Defending champion Australia received with an over to spare below lights in dewy circumstances Sunday and moved atop the standings on the Ladies’s Cricket World Cup with wins over New Zealand, Pakistan and now India.

Australia completed on 331-7 with Ellyse Perry (47 not out) hitting the successful six off the final ball of the forty ninth over, in reply to India’s 330 in 48.5 overs.

Healy’s 107-ball innings included 21 fours and three sixes. It was a sixth ODI hundred for the Australia skipper, her second towards India and third at World Cups.

Earlier, Smriti Mandhana’s 80 runs off 66 balls offered an awesome begin for India after Australia received the toss and opted to bowl.

Mandhana hit 9 fours and three sixes. She placed on 155 runs for the primary wicket with Pratika Rawal, who scored 75 off 96 on the ACA-VDCA Stadium. However India misplaced its final six wickets for 36 runs, and its dismissal with seven balls left proved expensive.

Co-host India misplaced its earlier recreation to South Africa by three wickets on the identical venue.

Seven-time champion Australia is unbeaten in 12 Cricket World Cup video games stretching again to 2022. It subsequent performs Bangladesh on Thursday, on the identical Visakhapatnam venue.

India has every week off earlier than it performs four-time champion England in Indore.

Healy was participant of the match.

“I’m actually happy with the group as we speak,” Healy mentioned. “Now we have been preaching about our batting depth and this chase proves it. Full credit score to our bowlers for pulling it again – we might have been chasing 360.”

South Africa performs Bangladesh on Monday, additionally in Visakhapatnam.

Mandhana led India’s top-order revival as she and Rawal offered its finest begin of the event within the first-ever 150-plus opening stand towards Australia in girls’s ODIs.

Mandhana additionally crossed 1,000 calendar ODI runs – a primary in girls’s cricket. She scored 50 off 46 balls, additionally reaching 5,000 profession runs within the quickest time (112 innings) and changing into the second Indian – and fifth general – girls’s cricketer to realize this feat.

Left-arm spinner Sophie Molineux proved costly (3-75) however she broke by with Mandhana’s wicket. She additionally dismissed Harleen Deol, who scored 38 off 42 balls.

Medium pacer Annabel Sutherland took 5-40 – her first five-wicket haul. She had Rawal caught within the thirty first over, earlier than triggering the lower-order collapse.

Skipper Kaur scored 22 off 17 balls, whereas Jemimah Rodrigues scored 33 off 21.

Richa Ghosh offered the ultimate flourish, with 32 off 22 however Sutherland’s late burst of wickets meant India crashed from 294-5 to 330 all out.

Healy and Phoebe Litchfield responded with an 85-run opening stand.

Litchfield scored a 39-ball 40 as Australia took benefit of a dewy outfield. Healy struck a barrage of boundaries – she hit eight fours and a six in 50 off 35 balls.

Left-arm spinner Shree Charani dismissed Litchfield, however Perry mixed with Healy for 69 off 76 balls for the second wicket. Perry walked off with a hamstring difficulty, however returned later to information the chase.

Two fast wickets fell however Healy ploughed on – she reached 100 off 84 balls and shared a stand of 95 off 70 balls with Ashleigh Gardner (45).

Healy was out within the thirty ninth over and Amanjot Kaur struck twice late to trigger some concern for Australia, however Perry and Kim Garth had been there on the finish for a surprising victory.

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