Australia on Saturday defeated India by 6 wickets to enter the semi-finals of the ICC Women's World Cup. Australia are currently unbeaten in the World Cup 2022 and have won five matches in a row so far.
In this match, the Australian team won the toss and invited the Indian team to bat first. The Indian team had a poor start and both the Indian team's openers Smriti Mandhana (10) and Shefali Verma (12) returned to the pavilion for a total of 28 in the 7th over. After this, captain Mithali and Yastika Bhatia put on 130 runs for the third wicket. Yastika returned to the pavilion after scoring 59 runs on a total score of 158. After this Mithali became the victim of Alana King by scoring 68 runs on a total score of 186. After this, Harmanpreet Kaur (57 not out) and Pooja Vastrakar (34) took India's score to 277 runs. Indian team scored 277 runs for 7 wickets in 50 overs. For Australia, Darcy Brown took 3 wickets, Alana King took 2 and Jonassen took 1 wicket.
Chasing the target of 278 runs, the Australian team made 280 runs for 4 wickets in 49.3 overs. Captain Mag Lenning scored the highest 97 runs for Australia. Apart from Lenning, Alyssa Healy scored 72, Rachel Haynes 43, Alyssa Perry 28 and Beth Mooney scored 30 not out. For India, Pooja Vastrakar took two and Meghna Singh and Sneh Rana took 1-1 wickets.