Summary

  • India win by 17 runs

  • Leg-spinner Poonam Yadav takes 4-19

  • Healy 51 (35) c&b by Poonam

  • India 132-4 (20 overs) - Deepti Sharma 49 not out

  • Opening game of tournament at Sydney Showground

  • England's first game on Sunday against South Africa

  • In-play clips available to UK users

  1. Umpire reviewpublished at 6.4 overs

    Aus 36-1

    A brief - and largely unnecessary - check for a run-out as Lanning knocks a quick single to short third man. Healy is nearly past the stumps by the time Taniya Bhatia removes the bails.

  2. Aus 35-1published at 6.3 overs

    Just the three bowlers used so far as left-arm spinner Gayakwad - memorably bowled by Anya Shrubsole for the final wicket of the 2017 World Cup final - has changed ends. Meg Lanning is already looking in her usual imperious form, helping herself to a well-run two.

  3. ouch!

    Mandhana collides with advertising boardpublished at 10:04 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2020

    Anyone nursing a shoulder injury may not want to watch this...

  4. Aus 33-1published at 6 overs

    Target 133

    Australia have had a tactic of sending Ashleigh Gardner out to have a slog if they lose an early wicket in the powerplay - but with only two balls of the field restrictions left, they send captain Meg Lanning out instead.

    Pandey has bowled well, she has 1-9 from two overs.

  5. Postpublished at 10:02 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2020

    Alex Blackwell
    Former Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    That's a huge wicket. Beth Mooney has been very consistent at teh top of the order. She has flayed that to backward point.

  6. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 5.4 overs

    Mooney c Gayakwad b Pandey 6 (Aus 32-1)

    Pandey strikes! Beth Mooney, who'd not hit a boundary, tries to force the pace and the ball flies off an edge, looping up for a fairly regulation catch at backward point.

  7. Aus 32-0published at 5.3 overs

    Shikha Pandey, one of cricket's headband-wearing warriors (along with Jack Brooks, Hamid Hassan and the like), chats with her captain Harmanpreet Kaur between overs. Like Alex Hartley suggested, she's quite difficult to get away.

  8. Postpublished at 09:59 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2020

    Here's the first of our highlights from the Aussie innings, as Alyssa Healy hits a couple of early fours.

    Remember, UK users can watch in-play highlights on every game of the tournament, to accompany TMS commentary on every game.

  9. Aus 30-0published at 5 overs

    Target 133

    With a required rate of around six-and-three-quarters, Australia are doing well to bustle along, playing risk-free cricket.

    They need 103 from 90 balls, with all 10 wickets in hand. And they bat deep.

  10. Aus 28-0published at 4.3 overs

    While Henry and Alex on TMS recount how they ran into Henry Blofeld last night ("he was firing on all cylinders and very much in mid-season form"), India keep Deepti Sharma going, and Australia are happy to tip-and-run singles.

  11. Aus 25-0published at 4 overs

    Target 133

    Healy, batting outside her crease, lofts another four over the umpire's head. She has 22 from 17 balls, rather hogging the strike compared to her partner Beth Mooney who has two from seven.

  12. Postpublished at 09:53 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2020

    Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    As a team, we really struggled to face Shikhar Pandey. She gets a lot of swing and the batters didn't know where to stand.

  13. Aus 19-0published at 3.2 overs

    There appears to be a mass dance-off happening beyond the boundary as India turn to seam for the first time - in the shape of Shikha Pandey.

    Given that Pandey is a squadron leader in the Indian Air Force, perhaps her bowling might be classed as military medium?

  14. Aus 19-0published at 3 overs

    Need 114 from 102 balls

    India look rather deflated - but Sharma keeps it tight, only conceding a leg bye from her first five deliveries. Healy tries to use her feet to the off-spinner, knocking the last ball to long-on for one to quash Sharma's hopes of a maiden over.

  15. Postpublished at 09:49 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2020

    Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    As a bowler, I wanted that rule changed.

  16. Not outpublished at 2.2 overs

    Aus 17-0

    That pitched an absolute mile outside leg stump - and India have utterly wasted their review.

  17. Postpublished at 09:48 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2020

    Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    That looks out.

  18. India reviewpublished at 2.2 overs

    Sharma to Mooney, who's hit on the pads while attempting a pull shot.

    India immediately go for the review, but I think that pitched outside leg...

  19. Aus 17-0published at 2 overs

    Target 133

    Mooney's not had much of the strike, but she and Healy are knocking the ball around well in these early stages.

    The TV coverage's win predictor already has it as 86% for Australia.

  20. Postpublished at 09:47 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2020

    Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Healy was saving her runs for the tournament. She did it before the West Indies two years ago.