# India women's cricket team in Australia in 2015–16

The India women's national cricket team toured Australia in January 2016 together with the Indian men cricket team. The tour included a series of three ODIs and three T20Is. The ODIs were part of the ICC Women's Championship.

## Squads

| ODIs | ODIs | T20Is | T20Is |
| Australia | India | Australia | India |
| Meg Lanning (c) Alex Blackwell (vc) Kristen Beams Nicole Bolton Sarah Coyte Rene Farrell Holly Ferling Grace Harris Alyssa Healy (wk) Jess Jonassen Beth Mooney Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt | Mithali Raj (c) Jhulan Goswami (vc) Ekta Bisht Rajeshwari Gayakwad Ravi Kalpana (wk) Thirush Kamini Harmanpreet Kaur Veda Krishnamurthy Smriti Mandhana Niranjana Nagarajan Shikha Pandey Poonam Yadav Sneh Rana Poonam Raut Sushma Verma (wk) | Meg Lanning (c) Alex Blackwell (vc) Lauren Cheatle Sarah Coyte Rene Farrell Holly Ferling Grace Harris Alyssa Healy (wk) Jess Jonassen Beth Mooney Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Naomi Stalenberg | Mithali Raj (c) Jhulan Goswami (vc) Ekta Bisht Rajeshwari Gayakwad Thirush Kamini Harmanpreet Kaur Veda Krishnamurthy Smriti Mandhana Anuja Patil Poonam Yadav Deepti Sharma Vellaswamy Vanitha Sushma Verma (wk) |

## Tour match

* 22 January 14:00 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard
| Australia Governor-General XI 19/1 (4 overs) | v | India Women |
| Beth Mooney 9* (23) | | |
* No result Drummoyne Oval, Sydney Umpires: Claire Polosak (Aus) and David Taylor (Aus)
* India Women won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain interrupted play after 4 overs.

## T20I series
### 1st T20I

* 26 January 14:00 ACDT (UTC+10:30) Scorecard
| Australia 140/5 (20 overs) | v | India 141/5 (18.4 overs) |
| Alyssa Healy 41* (15) Poonam Yadav 2/26 (4 overs) | | Harmanpreet Kaur 46 (31) Megan Schutt 2/23 (4 overs) |
* India Women won by 5 wickets Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Umpires: Geoff Joshua (Aus) and Sam Nogajski (Aus) Player of the match: Harmanpreet Kaur (Ind)
* India women won the toss and elected to field.
* Beth Mooney and Naomi Stalenberg (Aus) both made their debut in WT20I.
* This was India's highest successful run score in a T20I.

### 2nd T20I

* 29 January 14:30 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard
| Australia 125/8 (18 overs) | v | India 69/0 (9.1 overs) |
| Meg Lanning 49 (39) Jhulan Goswami 2/16 (4 overs) | | Mithali Raj 37* (32) |
* India won by 10 wickets (DLS method) Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Umpires: Gerard Abood (Aus) and Geoff Joshua (Aus) Player of the match: Jhulan Goswami (Ind)
* India women won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain reduced Australia Women's innings to 18 overs and India Women were set a target of 66 runs in 10 overs.
* Lauren Cheatle (Aus) made her debut in WT20I.
* This was India Women's first bilateral series win in any formats against Australia Women.

### 3rd T20I

* 31 January 14:30 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard
| Australia 5/136 (20 overs) | v | India 8/121 (20 overs) |
| Ellyse Perry 55* (41) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/36 (4 overs) | | Vellaswamy Vanitha 28 (25) Ellyse Perry 4/12 (4 overs) |
* Australia won by 15 runs Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Umpires: Gerard Abood (Aus) and Sam Nogajski (Aus) Player of the match: Ellyse Perry (Aus)
* India women won the toss and elected to field.
* Deepti Sharma (Ind) made her debut in WT20I.

## ODI Series
### 1st ODI

* ICC Women's Championship 2 February 10:00 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard
| Australia 276/6 (50 overs) | v | India 175 (46.5 overs) |
| Alex Blackwell 114 (112) Shikha Pandey 3/32 (10 overs) | | Harmanpreet Kaur 42 (72) Ellyse Perry 4/45 (10 overs) |
* Australia Women won by 101 runs Manuka Oval, Canberra Umpires: Sam Nogajski (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus) Player of the match: Alex Blackwell (Aus)
* Australia Women won the toss and elected to bat.
* Grace Harris (Aus) made her WODI debut.
* ICC Women's Championship points: Australia Women 2, India Women 0

### 2nd ODI

* ICC Women's Championship 5 February 10:00 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard
| India 252/8 (50 overs) | v | Australia 253/4 (46.4 overs) |
| Smriti Mandhana 102 (109) Ellyse Perry 3/54 (10 overs) | | Nicole Bolton 77 (74) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/42 (7.4 overs) |
* Australia won by 6 wickets Bellerive Oval, Hobart Umpires: Michael Graham-Smith (Aus) and Damien Mealey (Aus) Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.
* ICC Women's Championship points: Australia Women 2, India Women 0

### 3rd ODI

* ICC Women's Championship 7 February 10:00 AEDT (UTC+11) Scorecard
| Australia 231/7 (50 overs) | v | India 234/5 (47 overs) |
| Alex Blackwell 60 (64) Shikha Pandey 3/50 (10 overs) | | Mithali Raj 89 (113) Ellyse Perry 2/50 (10 overs) |
* India Women won by 5 wickets Bellerive Oval, Hobart Umpires: Michael Graham-Smith (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus) Player of the match: Mithali Raj (Ind)
* Australia Women won the toss and elected to bat.
* Ellyse Perry (Aus) took her 100th ODI wicket.
* ICC Women's Championship points: Australia Women 0, India Women 2