Melissa reynard

New Zealand Women: India Women's first innings lasted 36 minutes on the third morning as they added 30 runs to their overnight score, getting all out for 406 for an overall lead of 187 runs over Australia Women in the four-day, one-off Test at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday.

With this India scored 400 runs against Australia in the Women's Tests for the first time, surpassing their previous best of 377/8 declared that they raked up at the Carrara Stadium in Gold Coast in 2021. The Indian innings lasted 7.5 overs in all, falling short of their expectations.

Starting at the overnight score of 376/7, India's hopes rested on Deepti Sharma and Pooja Vastrakar adding as many runs as possible so that they could extend their least past the psychological mark of 200 runs.