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82nd over: India 277-7 (Deepti 5, Vastrakar 1) On stroll the Aussies, followed shortly afterwards by Deepti and Vastrakar at an overcast Mumbai, air pollution levels currently “unhealthy” on the Live AQI Index. The PM2.5 concentration currently 21.4 times the WHO annual air quality guideline value. In sprints McGrath – the ball still old. Just a single and a leg bye from it.
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Ash Gardner is the first Australian women's spinner to take three consecutive hauls of 4 wickets or more in Test cricket since Betty Wilson in 1958.#INDvAUS https://t.co/2h8cQ51aqn
— hypocaust (@_hypocaust) December 22, 2023
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81st over: India 276-7 (Deepti 4, Vastrakar 1) The Aussies continue with the old favourite for now, it has been behaving very nicely for them over the last hour. Gardner fizzes through an over, just one off it, before grabbing her sunglasses and leading Australia off the field. Four wickets in the session – and the flow very much with Australia. Time for me grab a coffee – back shortly.
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Drives, on bended knee, elegantly, but uppishly, and Sutherland is waiting in the covers. Jemimah drops her head in frustration.
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An ill advised sweep, inelegant, hit on the back pad half way up the thigh. Given out on the field, Yastika reviews, but it would have hit low on the off stump.
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Wickets a go go! Harmanpreet pushes forward, misses, and is hit just above the ankle on the front pad. Given out on the field, and DRS shows umpire’s call. Gardner roars in delight and Harmanpreet shuffles away.
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52nd over: India 193-3 (Ghosh 24, Rodrigues 24) Jemimah cuts Jonassen to point for a couple and that’s the last action of the morning.
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India have added 95 runs for the loss of two wickets. Gardner bowling the resolute Rana and Mandhana gifting her wicket away with a poor bit of cricket after looking regal for her 74. The home side are still calling all the shots at lunch on day two. A dollar for Ellyse Perry’s thoughts right now after she dropped the simplest of all chances to remove Ghosh twenty minutes before lunch.
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I’m away for a wee while to palm off the toddler and seek out some caffeine. Back soon for the afternoon session.
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Australia get the wicket of Smriti Mandhana, but India are still firmly in control#INDvAUS #RecordBreakingSalaar #Ugramm #Smritimandhana pic.twitter.com/6BSNXwMp7c
— Jarp Media (@Jarpindia) December 22, 2023
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Huge moment on day two! A mix up in the middle sees Mandhana stuttering through for a pinched single to backward point but she can’t make her ground at the non strikers end, her bat is on the line, and we all know who that belongs to. Australia have the big scalp!
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Gardner gets the breakthrough! An earlier ball in the over gripped and turned quite sharply, just sewing the seeds of doubt. The ball that did for Rana was straight and a bit quicker. The batter played the wrong line. Bakerloo and Piccadilly. Bowled.
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Hello and welcome to the OBO of day two between India and Australia at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. Day one firmly belonged to the hosts, Harmanpreet Kaur’s side managed to scythe through Australia’s batting card for an underwhelming 219 after Alyssa Healy had called the coin toss correctly and chosen to have first use of the wicket.
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Pooja Vastrakar shone luminous with the ball, the pace bowler scudded an in-ducker through Ellyse Perry’s defences early on and managed to prise out Beth Mooney on the stroke of lunch with a brutish short ball. In the afternoon session she added to her haul by pocketing Annabel Sutherland and Ash Gardner, all this coming just a few days after snaring Heather Knight (twice) and Nat Sciver-Brunt (clean bowled a la Perry) in the Test against England.
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Sneh Rana and Deepti Sharma chipped away in support before Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana made it look like they were batting on a starched shirt front for most of the evening session. Verma eventually fell, pinned LBW to Jess Jonassen but not before India had taken a sizeable chunk out of the Aussie first innings.
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When play resumes today – at 9.30am local time, 3.30pm AEDT and 4am (gulp) in the UK – India will trail by 121 runs and have nine wickets waiting in the hutch. Will it be a day of Indian dominance or will Australia bite back to level things up? Will I sleep through my complex system of staggered of 3am alarms? We’ll find out soon (too soon in some cases) enough.
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Key events
102nd over: India 335-7 (Deepti 38, Vastrakar 25) Another bowling change, it is Alana King and her flyaway right foot. A big appeal for lbw but it was going down leg. Then a beauty that flummoxes Vastrakar, ripping off the surface, past the outside edge.
101st over: India 334-7 (Deepti 37, Vastrakar 25) Vastrakar dispatches one from Gardner on the pads behind square for four. Is beaten by one that passes the outside edge.
100th over: India 330-7 (Deepti 37, Vastrakar 21) Deepti leans back, all balance and angles and eases the ball through point for four. Sutherland winkles her nose in disgust. Three dots then Sutherland is forced to pull out of her run up as Deepti gets something in her eye. Interesting chat on comms, that apparently on red soil your spinners don’t have to bowl so fast. Time for DRINKS!
99th over: India 326-7 (Deepti 33, Vastrakar 21) Gardner, with a bounce and a flick. Just singles, but they all count.
98th over: India 323-7 (Deepti 31, Vastrakar 20) Another maiden, this time for Sutherland. This partnership has now lasted 20 overs and cost 49 runs.
97th over: India 323-7 (Deepti 31, Vastrakar 20) After brief experimentation, Healy returns to Gardner. Into her 36th over. A terrible ball outside the leg side is swept fine for four by Deepti. Five dots.
India lead by 100 runs
96th over: India 319-7 (Deepti 27, Vastrakar 20) Singles knocked hither and thither, as the lead builds to a hundre. ! Deepti now has a filthy shirt after diving full length into the red dirt to regain her ground, the physio comes on to bandage up her scraped elbow.
95th over: India 314-7 (Deepti 24, Vastrakar 18) Deepti angles the bat and sends Garth’s first ball flying through the yawning gap between second and fourth slip. A handful more singles, to make it seven from the over. Do drop me a line, to say hi. My caffeine hit is starting to wear off.
94th over: India 307-7 (Deepti 18, Vastrakar 17) Deepti pushes two through the covers, well stopped on the rope by King. And Vastrakar tickles four off the hip down to the fine leg boundary.
93rd over: India 300-7 (Deepti 15, Vastrakar 13) Garth for Jonassen. Vastrakar content to just play her back. A quiet period of play this – will the Aussies knock over the last three, or can India stretch the lead past 120?
92nd over: India 300-7 (Deepti 15, Vastrakar 13) Cheatle again, pony tail swinging from side to side. Vastrakar brings up the India 300 with a dab to deep backward square leg, to enthusiastic applause from a female-heavy crowd.
91st over: India 299-7 (Deepti 15, Vastrakar 12) Jonassen replaces Gardner after that expensive over, Healy pushes and pulls her fielders into position. Jonassen bowls full, four singles from it.
90th over: India 295-7 (Deepti 13, Vastrakar 10) No nice looseners from Cheatle, just the single to Deepti.
89th over: India 294-7 (Deepti 12, Vastrakar 10) At last, the new ball! And Ash Gardner takes it. The very first delivery is driven by Deepti, past a ducking silly mid off to the boundary – flies off the bat. And four more, this time from Vastrakar, driven with panache through extra cover. The lead creeps up to 75.
88th over: India 285-7 (Deepti 7, Vastrakar 6) New ball still firmly in pocket. Cheatle again. Deepti picks up a single to whoops from the echoing stadium, Vastrakar takes one too.
87th over: India 283-7 (Deepti 6, Vastrakar 5) We know how Deepti likes to have a swing, but she carefully plays out another maiden from Gardner.
86th over: India 283-7 (Deepti 6, Vastrakar 5) Australia stick with the old ball, but Healy calls over Cheatle. Faded white warpaint across her cheekbones, she zips in, left arm over. A maiden.
85th over: India 283-7 (Deepti 6, Vastrakar 5) Deepti plays out another Gardner maiden.
84th over: India 283-7 (Deepti 6, Vastrakar 5) In the kitchen, my husband is compiling a list of his friends’ top five Christmas songs for a Guess Who quiz later. Current offerings include: Stay, East 17; Fairytale of New York, The Pogues, 7 o’clock news, Simon and Garfunkel. I’ll toss Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin Stevens into the mix. And Wombling Merry Christmas. Just a single from the over.
83rd over: India 282-7 (Deepti 5, Vastrakar 5) Vastrakar has the misfortune to face a fizzing Gardner. Not totally convincing, props forwards, pops an inside edge into the air, tentative – and then, ah, a huge four pancaked to the legside boundary.
Evening session
82nd over: India 277-7 (Deepti 5, Vastrakar 1) On stroll the Aussies, followed shortly afterwards by Deepti and Vastrakar at an overcast Mumbai, air pollution levels currently “unhealthy” on the Live AQI Index. The PM2.5 concentration currently 21.4 times the WHO annual air quality guideline value. In sprints McGrath – the ball still old. Just a single and a leg bye from it.
Tea: India 276-7, lead Australia by 57 runs
81st over: India 276-7 (Deepti 4, Vastrakar 1) The Aussies continue with the old favourite for now, it has been behaving very nicely for them over the last hour. Gardner fizzes through an over, just one off it, before grabbing her sunglasses and leading Australia off the field. Four wickets in the session – and the flow very much with Australia. Time for me grab a coffee – back shortly.
80th over: India 275-7 (Deepti 3, Vastrakar 1) McGrath, suncream smeared across her nose, bustles in, on the brink of tea. A maiden. Will Australia take the new ball?
79th over: India 275-7 (Deepti 3, Vastrakar 1) A fourth wicket for the excellent, tireless Gardner. The end of a gorgeous innings from Jemimah – a very full ball that she couldn’t control.
WICKET! Jemimah c Sutherland b Gardner 73 (India 274-7)
Drives, on bended knee, elegantly, but uppishly, and Sutherland is waiting in the covers. Jemimah drops her head in frustration.
78th over: India 273-6 (Jemimah Rodrigues 73, Deepti 2) Gorgeous from Jemimah, angled away over short mid-wicket for four.
77th over: India 269-6 (Jemimah Rodrigues 69, Deepti 2) Jemimah attempts two sweeps and misses both off Gardner – convinced the sweep is not a great idea on this pitch. That being said, Jemimah has two fifties in two Tests, and I …don’t.
76th over: India 268-6 (Jemimah Rodrigues 68, Deepti 2) A bowling change as McGrath comes on for Garth. No sweeties for the Indians. McGrath’s last ball jumps up and raps Deepti on the finger. Magic spray comes out.
75th over: India 268-6 (Jemimah Rodrigues 68, Deepti 2) The clever wonks on the television have worked out that the bounce is 10cm lower at the Wankhede than at the DV Patil stadium for the England Test. But not every ball. QED, batting is more tricky here and you don’t want to have to chase too many in the fourth innings. One off Gardner’s over.
74th over: India 267-6 (Jemimah Rodrigues 68, Deepti 1) Daybreak is creeping into Manchester, wearing a dull grey cloak. It’s 31 degrees currently in Mumbai and Garth looks hot as she rustles in. A couple of singles.
73rd over: India 265-6 (Jemimah Rodrigues 67, Deepti 0) Apologies to India, whom I seem to have cursed since I took over from Jim at drinks – they’ve lost three for five in less than three overs. The lead still only 46.
WICKET! Yastika lbw Gardner 1 (India 265-6)
An ill advised sweep, inelegant, hit on the back pad half way up the thigh. Given out on the field, Yastika reviews, but it would have hit low on the off stump.
72nd over: India 264-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 66, Yastika 1) Off the field, Harmanpreet stares through a glass darkly, with folded arms. Garth, whose radar was a bit off at the start of the innings, is all bustle and on point this time around.
71st over: India 263-5 (Jemimah Rodrigues 65, Yastika 1) Gardner reels into her 26th over, huge breakthrough – Australia have turned it around since drinks. Do drop me a line this December 22, send the OBO your best mince pie, summer cocktail tips.