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AUSW vs INDW | Day-night Test: Historic pink-ball Test ends in a draw

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The Day-night Test match between India women’s team and Australia women’s side ended in a draw in Queenstown on Sunday. The hosts began the proceedings on the final day of the Test from the overnight score of 143/4 with Ellyse Perry and Ashleigh Gardner at the crease. Australia added 98 more runs to the tally in the first innings with both Perry and Gardner notching up individual fifties. 

Captain Meg Lanning declared the innings at 241/9, trailing India by 136 runs. Pooja Vastrakar picked up three wickets while Jhulan Goswami, Meghna Singh and Deepti Sharma scalped a couple of wickets each. 

Later, India were off to another decent start after Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana scored 70 runs for the first wicket before Mandhana was undone by Molineux for 31. India then lost Yastika Bhatia for three in quick succession before Verma was joined by Punam Raut in the middle. 

The two batters then put up a partnership of 48 runs for the third wicket. Verma struck a half-century before she was trapped in front of the stumps by Wareham while Raut remained unbeaten at 41 as India declared the innings at 135/3. 

The visitors set a target of 272 for the Australian side and the host had a disappointing start to the proceedings after they were reduced to 28/2 and were 36/2 when the stumps were called on the final day. 

India batter Smriti Mandhana was adjudged player of the match and the left-hander expressed her delight. 

“It's definitely in the top three (asked to rate this hundred). First time playing a day-night Test, really happy that I gave good pace (start) to the team. Most nervous night I have ever had - after the first day. Lucky with that no-ball on 80. That sort of cleared my mind after that,” she said in the post-match presentation. 

The rain had played a spoilsport on the first two days of the match and pointing out the same, India captain Mithali Raj said that some crucial overs were lost because of the same. 

“Had we got four more wickets we would have gone for a few more overs. Rain took a lot of time out of the game. We tried to do whatever we could in the time we got. Jhulan has always been my best bowler for so many years and she shares her experience with the young bowlers,” she said. 

Australia captain Meg Lanning echoed Mithali’s voice and said that the result was possible if the overs weren’t lost because of rain. 

“We would have got a result in four days if we didn't have the weather. I thought India played really well. We had to fight it out which I'm pretty proud of the group for doing,” she said. 

The two sides will now lock horns in a three-match T20I series beginning on Thursday.  

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