Australia vs India Women, AUS-W vs IND-W 2024, Today Match Prediction 05 December 2024

AUSW vs IND-W Match Prediction & Analysis

Australia Women lock horns against India Women in the first of three ODI matches at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane on Thursday, 5th December at 9:00 PM IST. The journey to the ICC Women's ODI World Cup begins. This is a crucial series for Australia to solidify their spot in the ICC Women's Championship. 

Australia with 13 wins, 3 losses and 2 NR's in 18 matches have 28 points and enter this contest on the back of four wins in their last five ODI's. Indian Women after a dismal performance in the WOmen's T20 World Cup bounced back with a series win against New Zealand Women at home before entering the shores of Australia. India Women currently stand third in the ICC Women's Championship winning 12 of the 15 matches played and only lost 2 matches and currently with 25 points. 

Head to Head Record - Australia Women have won 43 of the 53 ODI matches played against India Women and India Women have won just 10 matches against Australia Women in the 50-over format. 

RECENT PERFORMANCE

AUSW

W W W W L

BANW

89/10 in 26.2 3.38

BD-W vs AUS-W 2024

Australia beat Bangladesh by 8 wickets 27 Mar 2024

AUSW

93/2 in 18.3 5.03

BANW

97/10 in 44.1 2.2

BD-W vs AUS-W 2024

Australia beat Bangladesh by 6 wickets 24 Mar 2024

AUSW

98/4 in 23.5 4.11

BANW

95/10 in 36.0 2.64

BD-W vs AUS-W 2024

Australia beat Bangladesh by 118 runs 21 Mar 2024

AUSW

213/7 in 50.0 4.26

AUSW

277/9 in 50.0 5.54

AUS-W vs RSA-W 2024

Australia beat South Africa by 110 runs (D/L) method 10 Feb 2024

RSAW

127/10 in 24.3 5.18

AUSW

149/10 in 29.3 5.05

AUS-W vs RSA-W 2024

South Africa beat Australia by -5 runs (D/L) method 07 Feb 2024

RSAW

229/6 in 45.0 5.09

IND-W

W L W W W

IND-W

236/4 in 44.2 5.32

IND-W vs NZ-W

India beat New Zealand by 6 wickets 29 Oct 2024

NZW

232/10 in 49.5 4.66

IND-W

183/10 in 47.1 3.88

IND-W vs NZ-W

New Zealand beat India by 76 runs 27 Oct 2024

NZW

259/9 in 50.0 5.18

IND-W

227/10 in 44.3 5.1

IND-W vs NZ-W

India beat New Zealand by 59 runs

24 Oct 2024

NZW

169/10 in 40.4 4.16

IND-W

220/4 in 40.4 5.41

IND-W vs SA-W 2024

India beat South Africa by 6 wickets 23 Jun 2024

RSAW

215/8 in 50.0 4.3

IND-W

325/3 in 50.0 6.5

IND-W vs SA-W 2024

India beat South Africa by 4 runs 19 Jun 2024

RSAW

321/6 in 50.0 6.42

HEAD TO HEAD

TEAMS PREVIEW

Australia Preview

Australia Women in the absence of their regular skipper Alyssa Healy who suffered a left knee injury during the WBBL season is yet to recover fully and was ruled out of the tournament. Tahlia McGrath will lead the squad in Healy's absence. In place of Healy Georgia Voll who had an impressive WBBL season where she scored close to 300 runs made it to the squad. 

Beth Mooney who has scored 191 runs in 7 matches in 2024, the player to watch out in the top order is Phoebe Litchfield who has had an impressive outing in the last ODI series she played against India where she scored 260 runs in three matches, at an average of 86.66 and smashed two half centuries and one century. With her reverse sweeps and sweeps towards the square and fine leg regions Litchfield plays counter attacking cricket and nullifies the effect of Indian spinners in the middle overs. 

The all-round ability of Ellyse Perry and Tahlia McGrath gives them two additional fast bowling options alongside their regular pacers Megan Schutt, Kim Garth and Darcie Brown. Schutt especially in the powerplay overs with her inswingers is a genuine wicket taker. Against India she has picked up 13 wickets in 11 matches and at Brisbane 12 wickets in 10 matches. 

When it comes to the spin department Alana King with her current form might not make it to the playing XI, considering the leg spin options of Georgia Wareham and Sophie Molineux who can also score runs with the bat and Ashleigh Gardner with her off-spin has always been a wicket taker against India. With too many bowling options and depth in their batting department Australia enter the first ODI as favourites. 

Australia Predicted Playing XI:

Beth Mooney (wk), Ellyse Perry, Phoebe Litchfield, Tahlia McGrath (C), Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Megan Schutt, Sophie Molineux, Darcie Brown, Georgia Wareham, Kim Garth

Australia Actual Playing XI:

Phoebe Litchfield, Georgia Voll, Tahlia McGrath, Ashleigh Gardner, Ellyse Perry, Georgia Wareham, Beth Mooney, Alana King, Kim Garth, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland

India Women Preview

India enter this series on the back of a 2-1 series victory over New Zealand Women at home. It is going to be a series where the road to the ICC Women's ODI cup begins for India. WIth the results not going their way in recent ICC and multi nation tournaments the Women in Blue are under a series scanner. It is time for Harmanpreet and co to prove how good a side they are. 

With the selectors dropping Shafali Verma from the ODI squad to everyone's surprise and including Priya Punia and Harleen Deol and even letting pinch hitter Dayalan Hemalatha who has been inconsistent in recent times is a big move, as the team management look for backups in the ODI format on a long run. In absence of Shafali Verma, Priya Punia will open the innings alongside Smriti Mandhana who scored a match winning hundred in the series decider against New Zealand. She has scored 494 runs in 13 ODI's against Australia and averages 38.00. In Australia in five matches she has scored 256 runs and averages 56.7. 

Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma will have additional duties in the batting department as India lack depth and with proper batters until number 7, the absence of Pooja Vastrakar leaves a void anyhow Saima Thakoor is expected to play a major role with the bat, considering her domestic stats. The three fast bowling options for India are Renuka Singh Thakur, Arundhati Reddy, Titas Sadhu and in the spin department Radha Yadav is the only spinner that will feature along with all-rounder Deepti Sharma. 

India Women Predicted Playing XI:

Smriti Mandhana, Priya Punia, Harleen Deol, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Renuka Singh Thakur, Saima Thakoor, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav

India Women Actual Playing XI:

Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Priya Punia, Deepti Sharma, Harmanpreet Kaur, Harleen Deol, Saima Thakor, Richa Ghosh, Priya Mishra, Renuka Singh, Titas Sadhu

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

The weather at Allan Border Field in Brisbane on the match day is expected to be around 24°C and there are chances of thunderstorm during the match hours and overcast conditions are expected and a possibility of a rain delayed game. 

AUSW vs IND-W Pitch Report

The pitch at Allan Border Field favours the batters, where the average 1st innings score is 211.22 runs. the ball comes onto the bat nicely as the game progresses and teams often prefer chasing under lights. With the conditions expected to be overcast, seamers will get assistance with the new ball and run-scoring is going to be difficult for both team batters, expect a low scoring game. 

Toss: To Bowl

In the 18 WODI matches played at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane, the team batting first won 8 matches and the team batting second won 10 matches. Teams chasing have won majority of the games as the conditions get better for batting. We predict the team that wins the toss will opt to bowl first.