India vs Australia Highlights, Women’s World Cup 2022: Lanning leads Australia to victory in clinical run chase

If anyone thought that Australia were under pressure before the start of this over, think again. Mooney finishes it off with two fours and a double and Australia have beaten India by 6 wickets. 

Mooney finishes it off unbeaten on 30 off 20 balls. India have sunk to their third defeat of the tournament, Australia have won five out five. 

Australia needed 8 to win off the last over bowled by Jhulan Goswami and Mooney sends the first ball to the long on boundary. They are then allowed to run two by some sloppy fielding from Mandhana and Australia now need two from four. 

What a catch! India have been building the pressure on Lanning, not allowing anything more than singles and she ends up finding Vastrakar at backward point. 

Lanning c Vastrakar b Meghna 97 (107), Australia 270/4 off 48.4, need 8 to win off 8 balls

Need 11 to win from the last two overs. Three dot balls to bring the 48th over bowled by Jhulan Goswami to a close and Lanning loses strike. 

Mithali Raj has finally closed off that square drive with a couple of fielders behind point. One wonders why this was not done earlier. Australia need 11 to win off 13 balls. 

Square drive again from Lanning, India still don't have any fielders to stop it despite the Australian captain doing it numerous times throughout this chase. She thus ends the 46th over with a four and moves to 92. 

Lanning crashes it through point and the ball races to the boundary to finish off the 44th over, Australia are 241 for the loss of three wickets. Need 37 to win off 36 balls.  

Oh Ellyse Perry has hit a full toss from Vastrakar straight into the hands of Mithali Raj at cover. The umpire asks Perry to wait as she checks for height. It was deemed to a legal delivery and Perry has to walk. 

Perry c Mithali b Vastakar 28 (51), Australia 226/3 in 41.3

Vastrakar is going to bowl the 41st over with Perry on strike. Vastrakar starts off with a wide Australia 226/2 off 41 overs, need 52 to win off 54 balls

Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry have walked out in full gear and is waiting by the boundary ropes as commentator Ian Smith said that play will be resumed in about 8 minutes. No damage to the ground and they won't be even running a rope over it. 

Rain seems to have subsided and the groundstaff is taking the covers off. So it does look like we will have a resumption of play soon. 

It has started to rain and the umpires take the players off. Rain was forecast for today and many even expected the early part of the match to be washed out. However, we have had no rain delays until now. The par score at this stage for Australia is 197 and they are 28 runs ahead already. 

Australia 225/2 off 41 overs, need 53 to win off 54 balls

A single from Lanning and the partnership between her and Perry reaches 100. India have hardly had any chance of beating either of these two players throughout this knock. They have taken the game away from the Indians after they saw that little opening when the openers fell. 

Lanning with a sumptuous on drive against Goswami that beats the mid on fielder and races towards the boundary. Partnership between the Australian captain and Perry moves to 99. 

Lanning has moved into the 60s while Perry remains on 18. India have no answers at the moment as the pair keep chipping away from that deficit. 

She takes two off the second ball of the 33rd over to reach her 19th half century. Lanning has taken the chase by the scruff of the neck here, milking the runs as India messed up their lines and made mistakes with their field placements. It looks straightforward at the moment for Australia. 

It has gone back to being too easy for Australia. Perry has not really gone anywhere with her innings but Lanning is breezing along. 61-run partnership between the two out of which 46 has come from Lanning. Goswami bowling the 32nd over, Australia are 183/2. 

Lanning sweeps hard off Sneh Rana and the ball takes a bounce just in front of the boundary line. Australia are 169/2, need 109 to win off 117 balls. 

Back to back fours for Meg Lanning off Meghna Singh. The first was a streaky one getting a very thick edge that flies over the slip area. She then hits past backward point for a other four and that brings up Australia's 150 in 26.3 overs. 

Australia have reached 142/2, Lanning 17 (25), Perry 3(8). Australia's scoring rate has dropped off since the dismissal of the two openers. 

Two senior players in the middle for Australia in captain Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry. They currently need 143 to win off 26 overs. 

Bouncer from Vastrakar and Haynes edges it to the wicketkeeper. Well no wickets at all for India for nearly 20 overs and now they have two in two. Australia have lost both their openers. 

Rachael Haynes c Richa Ghosh b Pooja Vastrakar 43 (53), Australia 123/2 in 21 overs

Reverse sweep from Healy, and she has picked short third man when Mithali clings on for a sharp catch. The opening partership ends at 121 and it is the dangerous Alyssa Healy who has to depart. 

Alyssa Healy c Mithali Raj b Sneh Rana 72 (65), Australia 121/1 in 19.2 overs

India have used up their reviews within the first 17 overs. Gayakwad went up in appeal but the umpire was unmoved. She seemed to then convince Mithali to take the review and the Indian captain does so. As it turns out, the ball pitched outside leg. 

Healy brings it up with a boundary off Gayakwad's first ball of the 17th over and then follows that up with another boundary. It's all too easy at the moment for Australia.