# Australia women's cricket team in India in 2017–18

The Australia women's cricket team played the India women's cricket team in March 2018. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) which formed part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship. Following the WODI matches, both teams played in a tri-series, with England women being the third team. Australia Women won the series 3–0 and became the number one ranked side in WODIs.

## Squads

| India | Australia |
| Mithali Raj (c) Harmanpreet Kaur (vc) Ekta Bisht Rajeshwari Gayakwad Veda Krishnamurthy Smriti Mandhana Mona Meshram Shikha Pandey Sukanya Parida Punam Raut Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Pooja Vastrakar Sushma Verma (wk) Poonam Yadav | Meg Lanning (c) Rachael Haynes (vc) Nicole Bolton Nicola Carey Ashleigh Gardner Alyssa Healy (wk) Jess Jonassen Sophie Molineux Beth Mooney Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Belinda Vakarewa Elyse Villani Amanda-Jade Wellington |

## Tour matches
### 1st 50-over match: India A Women v Australia Women

* 6 March 2018 Scorecard
| Australia 413/7 (50 overs) | v | India A Women 92 (29.5 overs) |
| Beth Mooney 115 (83) Sarika Koli 3/67 (8 overs) | | Anuja Patil 16 (16) Megan Schutt 3/24 (4.5 overs) |
* Australia Women won by 321 runs Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Bhatt Milind (Ind) and Sandeep Chavan (Ind)
* India A Women won the toss and elected to field.
* 14 players per side (11 batting, 11 fielding).

### 2nd 50-over match: India A Women v Australia Women

* 8 March 2018 Scorecard
| India A Women 170 (46.2 overs) | v | Australia 171/3 (26 overs) |
| Anuja Patil 49 (62) Amanda-Jade Wellington 3/30 (5.2 overs) | | Meg Lanning 63 (55) Kavita Patil 1/21 (5 overs) |
* Australia Women won by 7 wickets Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Umpires: Chandrakant Mhase (Ind) and Milind Pathak (Ind)
* India A Women won the toss and elected to bat.
* 14 players per side (11 batting, 11 fielding).

## WODI series
### 1st WODI

* ICC Women's Championship 12 March 2018 Scorecard
| India 200 (50 overs) | v | Australia 202/2 (32.1 overs) |
| Pooja Vastrakar 51 (56) Jess Jonassen 4/30 (10 overs) | | Nicole Bolton 100* (101) Shikha Pandey 1/38 (7 overs) |
* Australia Women won by 8 wickets Reliance Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Nitin Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Nicole Bolton (Aus)
* India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
* Jemimah Rodrigues (Ind) and Nicola Carey (Aus) both made their WODI debuts.
* Nicole Bolton (Aus) scored her fourth century in WODIs.
* Shikha Pandey (Ind) took her 50th wicket in WODIs.
* Meg Lanning (Aus) scored her 3,000th run in WODIs.
* Points: Australia Women 2, India Women 0.

### 2nd WODI

* ICC Women's Championship 15 March 2018 Scorecard
| Australia 287/9 (50 overs) | v | India 227 (49.2 overs) |
| Nicole Bolton 84 (88) Shikha Pandey 3/61 (10 overs) | | Smriti Mandhana 67 (53) Jess Jonassen 3/51 (10 overs) |
* Australia Women won by 60 runs Reliance Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Anil Dandekar (Ind) and Nand Kishore (Ind) Player of the match: Nicole Bolton (Aus)
* India Women won the toss and elected to field.
* Points: Australia Women 2, India Women 0.

### 3rd WODI

* ICC Women's Championship 18 March 2018 Scorecard
| Australia 332/7 (50 overs) | v | India 235 (44.4 overs) |
| Alyssa Healy 133 (115) Harmanpreet Kaur 2/51 (5.3 overs) | | Smriti Mandhana 52 (42) Ashleigh Gardner 3/39 (8 overs) |
* Australia Women won by 97 runs Reliance Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Anil Dandekar (Ind) and Nand Kishore (Ind) Player of the match: Alyssa Healy (Aus)
* Australia Women won the toss and elected to bat.
* Alyssa Healy (Aus) scored her first century in WODIs.
* Points: Australia Women 2, India Women 0.