Australia and India are arguably worldwide cricket’s greatest and greatest groups and share a historical past that has simmered (and typically boiled over) all through the years.
From the vastly completely different taking part in situations to legends of the sport on each side, the cricket itself has all the time been of a elegant high quality that few sides can match.
All through the summer season, we’ll look again at a few of the greatest tales and share our personal favorite moments.
Be a part of us to proceed the dialog on our dwell blogs and on the radio over the summer season, with the primary Check beginning Friday, November 22, earlier than the readers’ prime 10 is revealed forward of the fifth Check on the SCG from January 3.
1. Mankad turns into greater than a reputation (1947)
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It is the mode of dismissal that provokes determined, heated argument every time it is (not often) deployed — the working out of the non-striker by the bowler as he runs in to bowl.
The Mankad dismissal is known as after Indian participant Vinoo Mankad, a classy opening bat and orthodox left-arm spinner, who dismissed Australian batter Invoice Brown twice throughout India’s tour of Australia in 1947.
Throughout a apply match on the SCG, Brown was taking liberties because the non-striker to achieve a yard as Mankad ran in to bowl. First, Mankad warned Brown and beckoned the Queenslander again into his crease. However the second time, as he was completely entitled to do underneath the legal guidelines of the sport, he eliminated the bails.
It wasn’t the primary time it had been carried out — information confirmed the tactic current way back to the early 1800s.
However when Mankad did the identical factor, to the identical batter, on the similar floor a number of days later in an official Check match, the transfer received worldwide consideration.
Invoice O’Reilly and Don Bradman each mentioned Brown was at fault for attempting to steal a yard and, for years there was remarkably little controversy. How issues change.
2. India and Australia’s girls sit faculty Check (1977)
Some 58 girls’s Check matches had taken place earlier than Australia met India for the primary time, on the inauspicious surrounds of the Hale Faculty in Perth’s west.
Australia made 266 of their first innings after profitable the toss, with quantity six batter Elaine Bray prime scoring with 86.
India was then rolled for simply 122, and the Aussies piled on the strain, declaring their second innings at 1-152 after half centuries to openers Margaret Jennings (57) and Lorraine Hill (74).
Chasing 297 to win, a half century from skipper Shantha Rangaswamy was not sufficient as Raelee Thompson took 4-41 as India was bowled out for simply 149.
3. Simpson leads Aussies decimated by World Sequence (1977)
It is honest to say that 1977 was a seismic yr for Australian cricket.
The World Sequence Cricket grenade had trigger the cricket warfare to blow up, ripping all of Australia’s greatest names bar Jeff Thompson out of rivalry for official Exams as they defected to play in Kerry Packer’s Tremendous Exams.
Whereas the Australians and the West Indians met at a sparsely populated VFL Park, Australia and India performed the primary Check on the Gabba, led by the recalled 41-year-old Bob Simpson.
Simpson prime scored within the second innings in Brisbane because the Aussies gained a tense encounter by 16 runs.
A win on the WACA noticed Australia leap out to a 2-0 sequence lead earlier than India hit again with huge wins on the MCG and SCG.
Nonetheless, Captain Bob stood up within the ultimate Check at Adelaide Oval, scoring 100 and 51 because the Aussies claimed a 47-run victory to seal a 3–2 sequence win.
4. Dean Jones’s miracle 210 (1986)
It is the type of innings that establishes a batter into sporting folklore — and does untold injury to their physique within the course of.
A lot has been written about Dean Jones’s innings, the place he toiled and broiled by way of the inconceivable warmth in Chennai, chided by his skipper as being a “delicate Victorian” for desirous to stop and, reportedly, remembering nothing a lot after he handed his century.
It wasn’t Jones’s solely exceptional second for Australia, however inarguably essentially the most dramatic as he turned the primary Australian to attain 200 in India, all whereas battling full-body cramping, vomiting and, when he reached the 170s, unable to cease himself urinating in his taking part in package.
“He would hit me for a boundary, go to mid-wicket, vomit, come again, do this once more. It was wonderful,” India spinner Maninder Singh mentioned of Jones, who misplaced 7 kilograms through the Check.
Jones ultimately collapsed within the sheds and wanted to be placed on a drip in hospital to recuperate as the 2 sides, in his absence, performed out some of the extraordinary of Check matches to an exhilarating conclusion.
5. The (different) tied Check (1986)
This was solely the second time {that a} Check has ever completed in a tie.
Australia made a monster 7-574 within the first innings, due to that double hundred from Dean Jones and tons to David Boon and skipper Allan Border.
India captain Kapil Dev added 100 of his personal however noticed his facet concede a 177-run first-innings lead, and could be set a goal of 348 to win the Check.
They usually have been trying fairly good, Sunil Gavaskar scoring 90 to place India on 2-204.
However then India faltered, falling from 6-331 to be all out for 347, as Greg Matthews accomplished his five-wicket haul by trapping Maninder Singh LBW, with spinner Ray Vivid taking the opposite 5.
6. Teen Tendulkar arrives in Australia (1992)
He was simply 18 years outdated, however Sachin Tendulkar was already 11 video games and two years into his Check profession when he arrived for his first tour of Australia in the summertime of 1991.
With a match-saving unbeaten ton in England to his identify, he was shaping as a masterful batter with potential nearly unmatched amongst his friends, and that was all on present in his third-Check efficiency.
Opener Ravi Shastri scored 206 — his highest Check rating — however it was Tendulkar that shone brightest of their 196-run fifth-wicket stand on the SCG, withstanding the Australian bowlers to stay not out on 148 as India established a first-innings lead.
It was the primary of his six centuries in Australia throughout an unrivalled 21-year span.
That SCG Check was memorable for one different younger participant, who made his bow for the hosts, however it was removed from auspicious.
7. Warne ‘smashed’ in SCG debut (1992)
Shane Warne’s begin to his worldwide profession within the third Check on the SCG in 1992 was much less glamorous than his legendary Check profession would counsel.
Australia’s bowling assault was diminished when lanky left-arm opening bowler Bruce Reid was minimize down by a facet pressure after simply 4 overs, leaving Craig McDermott, Merv Hughes and the 21-year-old Warne as the one frontline bowling choices in opposition to a rampant Ravi Shastri and Sachin Tendulkar.
“I received smashed to each single a part of the Sydney Cricket Floor,” Warne mentioned nearly 20 years after that day.
Warne bowled 45 overs and completed with 1-150, however he did nab the wicket of India legend Shastri, caught at deep cowl by Victorian teammate Dean Jones.
“Properly, I am going to by no means play once more, however a minimum of they cannot take that away from me,” Warne mentioned of his emotions after that day.
Fifty per cent proper, Warnie.
8. Tendulkar takes down Warne (1998)
The very best batter on this planet taking over one of the best spinner on this planet led to some of the anticipated battles inside a battle through the first Check of Australia’s 1998 Tour of India at Chennai.
First blood decidedly went to Warne, having Tendulkar caught by Mark Taylor at slip for simply 4 as India was bowled out for 257. Warne took 4-85.
Australia established a 71-run lead after its first dig (Tendulkar caught Warne off the bowling of Anil Kumble throughout that innings, as an apart) earlier than the Indians erased that to be 2-115 as Tendulkar got here to the crease.
Warne was instantly known as upon to bowl as Tendulkar got here out — and Tendulkar blew him away.
Adopting an open stance to counter Warne’s flip from the tough, and taking part in the ball devilishly late, Tendulkar toyed with Warne to attain 155 not out off 191 balls — his strike fee of 81.15 was better of any batter bar Sourav Ganguly, whose 36-ball cameo preceded a declaration of 4-418.
Warne ended with innings figures of 1-122 from his 30 overs.
Australia was then bowled out for 168, handing India a commanding victory.
9. Desert Storm (1998)
A nondescript ODI needs to be fairly particular to make a listing like this, however this round-robin conflict within the Sharjah Cup most likely counts.
Australia managed 7-284 within the day night time match in Sharjah due to an unbeaten 101 from Michael Bevan.
India wanted to win or solely lose narrowly qualify for the ultimate, which was set to be performed on ANZAC Day simply a few days later. In any other case, it might be New Zealand who would meet the Aussies.
Quickly after India started its chase, a sandstorm stopped play, decreasing India’s goal from 285 to 276 in 46 overs.
After the resumption, Sachin Tendulkar stepped as much as the duty, blasting 143 from 131 to place India inside touching distance.
Though they finally fell brief, Tendulkar used that innings as a springboard within the ultimate on the similar venue, hitting 134 in 131 balls at hand India a six-wicket victory with 9 balls to spare.
10. Ten-duck-ar (1999)
There would not be a listing of memorable moments between these two nations with out a minimum of one debatable umpiring determination.
Within the fourth innings of the Adelaide Oval Check of 1999, with India 3-27 chasing 396 to win, India captain Sachin Tendulkar was dealing with Glenn McGrath, who intimated that he would pepper the little grasp with a smattering of brief bowling.
McGrath got here steaming in and pitched the ball brief, so Tendulkar ducked, however the ball did not stand up as a lot as anticipated and struck him on the again of his shoulder.
After deliberating, umpire Daryl Harper raised his finger to dismiss Tendulkar for a five-ball duck.
India was all out for 110, giving Australia a 285-run victory and an open can of worms about using residence umpires in Check matches.
So, was it out? Many years earlier than ball monitoring, it is onerous to inform, however on nearer view you might be satisfied that the ball would have clipped the stumps.
11. Brett Lee’s 5 on debut (1999)
It is the stuff of desires.
Boxing Day. The MCG. A recent dishevelled inexperienced in your possession. And 5 Check wickets on debut.
Brett Lee, changing Michael Kasprowicz within the facet, burst into the Check match enviornment with a glowing 5-47 in Melbourne in 1999, together with the wicket of opener Sadagoppan Ramesh with simply the fourth ball of his 76-Check profession.
It was his first of 10 five-wicket hauls and set him on the trail to 310 scalps at Check stage.
Sadly, intermittently poor climate meant that simply 23,127 spectators got here by way of the gates on what was day three of the Check to see Lee’s exploits.
12. Harbhajan’s hat-trick (2001)
Australia was trying in fairly fine condition within the second Check of the 2001 sequence at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens.
The Aussies have been, actually, cruising alongside very properly at 4-252 with Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh within the center.
However Harbhajan Singh was in no temper to let the Aussies streak away.
He had Ponting LBW for simply 6, earlier than repeating the dose to Adam Gilchrist (0) the very subsequent ball — though an inside edge ought to maybe have ended the sequence in its tracks.
In got here Shane Warne however he was caught by Sadagoppan Ramesh at ahead brief leg for an additional duck to offer India its first Check hat-trick.
13. Laxman and Dravid’s Kolkata heroics (2001)
Regardless of Harbhajan’s hat-trick, issues weren’t trying nice for India within the second Check of the 2001 sequence at Eden Gardens.
Australia had scored 445 in its first innings after which bowled out India for simply 171 in reply.
Given India was nonetheless trailing by 274 runs, Australia skipper Steve Waugh enforced the follow-on.
Enter VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid.
The pair got here along with India nonetheless trailing by 42 runs, however piled on a whopping 376-run partnership, with Laxman scoring a magical 281 and Dravid 180 as they batted all through day 4.
India ultimately declared on 7-657 and, due to younger offie Harbhajan Singh’s 6-73 and Sachin Tendulkar’s leg spin, ripped by way of the Aussies to assert a memorable 171-run victory, taking seven wickets within the ultimate session to finish Australia’s file profitable streak at 16 Exams.
14. Hayden sweeps India apart (2001)
It might sound loopy to suppose now, however there was a time when huge nation Queenslander Matthew Hayden was not an computerized choice on the prime of the Australian batting line up across the flip of the century.
Earlier than Australia toured India in 2001, Hayden averaged simply 24.36 from his 13 Exams and had scored only one century.
Nonetheless, on that tour of India, Hayden scored 549 runs at a median of 109.80, an Australian file for a three-Check sequence.
Hayden turned a grasp of the situations, sweeping his option to mammoth scores and establishing himself because the go-to opener for years to come back.
15. Ponting conquers India and the world (2003)
Sourav Ganguly should nonetheless take into consideration his determination to make Australia bat first though in fact, he’d relatively his bowlers had simply been higher on a pitch that was doing sufficient.
As a substitute, their defective radars allowed Adam Gilchrist (57 from 48) and Matthew Hayden (37 from 54) to placed on 105 runs in simply 14 overs.
With a platform like that, Ricky Ponting did not want a second invitation.
Whacking 140 from 121 balls, the Australian skipper placed on a then-ODI file 234 run partnership with Damien Martyn (88 from 84), who was batting with a damaged thumb.
Australia’s 2-359 was its highest ever ODI rating on the time — and India wilted underneath the strain of the chase, bowled out for 234 and handing Australia a file 125-run victory and their second consecutive Cricket World Cup win.
16. Ricky Ponting’s twin double tons (2003)
If you’re on, you are on, and through the 2003 residence sequence in opposition to India, Ricky Ponting was very a lot on.
After plundering 242 within the first innings in Adelaide, Ponting backed up by smashing what would stay his highest ever Check rating of 257 within the following Check in Melbourne.
Each these innings include contrasting recollections.
The primary led to defeat, a second innings, 17-ball duck from Ponting a part of a dismal collapse that noticed Australia fall to 196 all out.
However on the Boxing Day Check, Ponting returned to type, main Australia to a 192-run first-innings lead and a series-levelling nine-wicket win.
Ponting’s innings was very a lot wanted in Melbourne, after Virender Sehwag hit a beautiful opening day 195 from simply 233 balls.
Had it not been for a second-morning collapse from the vacationers, it was an innings that would — and maybe ought to — have put India able to win the second Check and take a 2-0 sequence lead.
17. Steve Waugh bows out with 80 in his ultimate Check innings (2004)
A battler till the very finish, Steve Waugh needed to present all of his grittiness to assist Australia salvage a attract his ultimate Check innings.
Chasing a nominal 443 to win on the SCG, Australia was wobbling at 3-170 when the skipper got here to the crease through the afternoon session on the ultimate day, a wobble exacerbated when Ricky Ponting was out to depart Australia at 4-196.
However Steve Waugh was not one to let nerves get the higher of him, not in his 168th and ultimate Check match.
Waugh batted for nearly three hours for a 159-ball 80 to settle the Aussies and provides the 27,056 followers in attendance one ultimate, becoming reminiscence of one among Australia’s biggest.
18. Pup bursts onto the scene (2004)
A younger New South Welshman changing into Australia’s golden youngster is a well-worn cliché, and Michael Clarke match the mould completely — frosted suggestions, soul patch, diamond stud and all.
However the 23-year-old instantly proved even essentially the most ardent critics incorrect and warned the world Australia’s golden period may proceed together with his debut within the first Check of Australia’s 2004 tour of India.
Entering into the huge footwear of the injured Ricky Ponting, Clarke walked to the crease with Australia teetering at 4-149 and went about placing his nation on prime with an impressive 151 in attempting circumstances.
First he shared a 106-run partnership with future antagonist Simon Katich, then paired with skipper and fellow centurion Adam Gilchrist for 167 runs to put the platform from which Australia launched itself to victory.
He was named participant of the match within the opening win and went on to attain 400 runs throughout the 4 Exams at a series-topping common of 57.14.
As an appetiser for his future exploits, Clarke additionally took 6-9 in 32 balls together with his left-arm finger spin to bowl India out for 205 and provides Australia an opportunity within the ultimate Check at Wankhede, though a final-innings collapse noticed them fall 14 runs wanting their 107-run goal.
19. Gilchrist leads Australia to sequence win in India (2004)
Successful a Check sequence in India is tough. Actually onerous.
However Australia, underneath the captaincy of Adam Gilchrist — standing in for Ricky Ponting — managed to do exactly that in 2004, claiming a 2-1 sequence victory.
It began with debutant Michael Clarke’s 151 in Bengaluru as Australia romped to a 2017-run victory.
Then, Damien Martyn’s good 210-ball 104 throughout over four-and-a-half hours within the third innings of the match in Chennai helped salvage a draw heading into the aforementioned third Check in Nagpur.
India salvaged some satisfaction in a low-scoring victory by 13 runs on the Wankhede within the Mumbai fourth Check, as Australia claimed a powerful sequence win — one among simply two groups which have managed to take action on Indian soil over the previous 20 years.
20. Karen Rolton rolls India of their first World Cup ultimate (2005)
It might have been India’s first look in a Ladies’s Cricket World Cup ultimate, however it was removed from being Australia’s first rodeo — and it confirmed.
Belinda Clark gained the toss and opted to bat, however earlier than lengthy the Aussies have been 2-31 after which 3-71.
Karen Rolton although, steadied the ship, scoring an excellent unbeaten 107, placing on 139 for the fourth wicket with Lisa Sthalekar.
Set 216 to win, India crumbled to be all out for 117 as Australia accomplished a 98-run victory.
It might have been so completely different for India although. Rolton had been dropped by Amita Sharma when she was on 60.
21. Michael Clarke’s three late wickets on the SCG (2008)
When Ricky Ponting threw Michael Clarke the ball late on the ultimate day on the SCG, the Australian skipper admitted it was “the final roll of the cube”.
5 balls later, Clarke had 3-5 and Australia had claimed a record-equalling sixteenth Check win in a row.
“Michael Clarke’s received the golden contact,” Ponting mentioned of his younger Pup, whereas man of the match Andrew Symonds described Clarke as “comfortably one of many luckiest blokes I do know”.
Clarke picked up the final three wickets from solely 5 balls as Australia sneaked residence to take a 2-0 sequence led with simply minutes remaining within the match.
India will level to some horrible umpiring selections that went in opposition to them — together with Rahul Dravid being given out caught off his pad and a contentious catch by Clarke himself to take away captain Sourav Ganguly.
Clarke mentioned there was “not an opportunity in hell” that he thought Australia might win the sport — “I believe that is why Punter threw me the ball” he mentioned.
“India, although, did very well to combat as they did.”
Scant comfort, sadly, in a match that might eternally be remembered for different causes than the outstanding end.
22. Monkeygate (2008)
The bottom level of India-Australian relations on the cricket pitch.
A nasty-tempered conflict on the SCG was embroiled in additional controversy when Harbhajan Singh was alleged to have known as Andrew Symonds a monkey.
With Singh slapped with a three-game ban by match referee Mike Procter, the BCCI spat the dummy and threatened to tug out of the tour.
Sachin Tendulkar, who was batting with Singh on the time, mentioned his teammate had used an offensive Hindi time period, however not a racist one.
Australia’s gamers mentioned that had not been the case.
An enchantment in opposition to the ban discovered that Singh had not racially abused Symonds and could be permitted to play, to the fury of Australia’s gamers, who felt let down by Cricket Australia.
After his retirement, Symonds mentioned the occasions had an infinite influence on him, shortening his worldwide profession.
23. India finish’s Australia’s four-peat quest (2011)
Australia was going for 4 Cricket World Cup titles in a row.
India was on the lookout for its first World Cup triumph because the days of ODIs being performed in whites and Lord’s World Cup hegemony.
However, thanks in no small half to Yuvraj Singh’s 2-44 with the ball and unbeaten 57 with the bat, India roared into the semifinals of their residence World Cup.
Chasing 260, India made the whole with 14 balls to spare due to half centuries from Singh, Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir.
It was India’s first World Cup win over Australia in 24 years and helped India to a primary triumph since 1983.
24. 19-year-old Meg Lanning palms India its greatest ODI defeat (2012)
Meg Lanning will go down as one among Australia’s biggest ever captains, however earlier than she took cost of the nationwide facet, she was incomes her stripes with some elegant innings, and there have been few higher than her magnificent 128 off simply 104 balls on the Wankhede stadium.
Her highly effective hitting — Lanning his 19 fours and a six in her innings — propelled Australia to a complete of 7-300 of their 50 overs.
India had no likelihood.
Ellyse Perry took 5-19 and India was bowled out in simply 27.1 overs for a paltry 79 runs, handing Australia a 221-run victory — and India its greatest ever ODI defeat.
25. Michael Clarke’s 329no within the SCG’s a centesimal Check (2012)
It’s so simple to neglect that Australia was in one thing of a gap when Michael Clarke strode to the crease on the SCG.
The hosts had been decreased to 3-37 due to an impressed spell of bowling from Zaheer Khan, after India had been bowled out for 191.
The a centesimal Check on the historic Moore Park floor appeared set to be a brief one.
Till Michael Clarke entered the chat.
Assisted by 134 from Ricky Ponting and 150 from Michael Hussey, Australia’s skipper batted over 10 hours for his unbeaten 329 as Australia declared on 4-659.
India was higher in its second innings, scoring 400, however that was nonetheless not sufficient to make Australia bat once more.
26. Clarke and Ponting double up in Adelaide as Virat reveals his promise (2012)
Skipper Michael Clarke scored 210, former skipper Ricky Ponting 221, and Australia’s batters as soon as once more pummelled India’s woeful bowling assault to all corners in Adelaide.
Australia’s two most up-to-date skippers piled on a record-breaking 386-run partnership at Adelaide Oval to assist Australia to an insurmountable complete of 7-604 within the first innings.
India, as that they had so many occasions prior on this 2012 season, wilted underneath the strain of Australia’s assault.
Certainly, just one man managed to face as much as the uncanny accuracy of Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus. Virat Kohli.
Kohli’s 116 was the one signal of resistance as India’s outdated guard struggled to make any influence.
27. David Warner’s emotional knock, Smith and Clarke dedicate tons to Phillip Hughes (2014)
It was all the time going to be a troublesome Check, as India arrived simply weeks after the premature dying of former Check opener Phil Hughes.
So when David Warner scored his century within the first day at Adelaide Oval and regarded as much as the sky, there was little question who was on his thoughts.
“That was undoubtedly for him at present,” Warner mentioned.
“He was on the different finish after I scored my first 100 and I devoted that 100 to him at present. It has been an emotional week for us all and I do know he’d have been happy with us at present.
“I knew the little man up there was with me on the different finish and all of it fell into place.”
Warner had earlier regarded upwards, elevating his bat a tricky, when he reached 63, the rating Hughes was on when he was struck down in a Sheffield Protect match.
“It was one thing that was behind my thoughts, it may be a particular quantity for all of us for a few years to come back,” Warner mentioned.
28. Virat Kohli vs Mitchell Johnson (2014)
You would not like both of them after they’re indignant — and boy did the temperature rise on the third day of the MCG Check in 2014.
With Virat Kohli battling brilliantly on his option to a third-successive century, Mitchell Johnson thought he noticed a possibility to run the firebrand batter out, selecting up the ball in his comply with by way of and flinging it again in direction of the stumps.
Sadly, Kohli was in the way in which and was struck on the again.
There was no response instantly — till Kohli hit the following ball for 4 after which squared as much as the Queenslander, letting fly with a number of verbals, earlier than blowing a few kisses at him a short time later.
Fairly a number of, actually — he did not cease speaking even all through the publish day’s press convention.
“I respect a number of of them but when somebody would not respect me, I’ve no motive to respect him,” a “actually irritated” Kohli mentioned after the day’s play.
“They have been calling me a spoilt brat,” Kohli added.
“I mentioned: ‘Possibly that is the way in which I’m — I do know you guys hate me and I like that.'”
Kohli had scored 169 runs earlier than Johnson ultimately received him out. Honours even?
29. Aussie spinners weave their magic in Pune (2017)
Successful a Check match in India is awfully powerful — except you are a contemporary classic Black Caps facet, apparently — however Australia made it look simple in Pune, profitable by 333 runs.
What was so spectacular about this outcome although was that it was spinners Nathan Lyon and Steve O’Keefe that out-spun India.
O’Keefe took 6/35 in each innings, with Lyon including 5 wickets of his personal throughout the match as India was bowled out for simply 107 within the fourth innings.
O’Keefe’s match figures of 12-70 have been, on the time, the tenth greatest within the historical past of Australian Check cricket.
30. Handscomb and Marsh bat all day to avoid wasting Australia in Ranchi (2017)
Shaun Marsh and Peter Handscomb have been Australia’s final likelihood to avoid wasting the Ranchi Check.
Steve Smith had simply shouldered arms to depart Australia 4-63 and nonetheless 89 runs wanting making India bat once more.
However, 62 overs later, Marsh and Handscomb have been nonetheless on the crease, having erased any likelihood of India forcing a outcome.
Their fifth-wicket stand was value 124 runs, however it was all the time extra in regards to the balls they used up as Australia held on for a vastly commendable draw after India had plundered 603 runs of their first innings in response to Australia’s 451.
31. Harmanpreet Kaur stuns Aussies in World Cup semifinal, kicking off revenge tour (2017)
Australia’s girls do not usually miss out at World Cups, so it goes with out saying that it wants one thing fairly particular to knock them off their perch.
And Harmanpreet Kaur’s onslaught in Derby actually qualifies as being fairly particular.
The Indian skipper blasted 171 not out off simply 115 balls to launch India into the ultimate in opposition to England, their tally of 281 in a rain-reduced 42 overs sufficient to beat Australia by 36 runs.
Kaur, with a strained shoulder, hit her first fifty off 64 balls, her second off simply 26, and her third in 17. It was energy hitting of the best high quality.
Spurred on by the frustration, Australia ran by way of the following three World Cups (two T20s and a 50-over version) as their dominance hit new heights.
32. Tim Paine vs Virat Kohli, the stump mic version (2018)
“I do know he is your captain, however you may’t significantly like him as a bloke.”
So began a powerful backwards and forwards between India and Australian skipper Tim Paine in Perth, all captured by the stump microphone.
That sledge, delivered by Paine to Murali Vijay, was simply the opening salvo, as Paine and Kohli received into one another the next day.
Umpire Chris Gaffaney tried to maintain the peace, reminding each skippers that they have been, actually, captains of their nationwide groups and never exchanging barbs within the faculty playground.
However it was to no avail because the fractious relationship between the 2 sides took one other flip.
33. Poonam Yadav bamboozles Aussies (2020)
Australia had understandably excessive expectations heading into their residence T20 World Cup, however these expectations have been tempered by a surprising begin by India on the SCG.
Poonam Yadav made one of the best batters on this planet look clueless as she took 4-5 within the house of 13 balls that ought to have included a hat-trick.
The leggie ended with figures of 4-19 in a stellar efficiency, as India ran out winners by 17 runs to open up the match.
34. Packed MCG watches Aussies win Ladies’s T20 World Cup (2020)
With the good thing about hindsight, as one of many final nice hurrahs earlier than COVID closed down the world, there might have been no finer option to say goodbye to crowds for the foreseeable future.
A formidable 86,174 followers packed the MCG to see Australia crush India by 85 runs and declare their fifth T20 World Cup crown on March 8, 2020.
A match bookended by performances from Katy Perry noticed Alyssa Healy belt 75 off 39 balls, ably supported by a powerful 78 from Beth Mooney — though each have been handed lifelines by Indian drops.
India was by no means within the contest chasing 185 to win, bowled out for 99 with Megan Schutt taking 4-18.
35. India all out for 36 (2020)
Day-night Check matches might be low scoring, however no-one anticipated it to be this low scoring.
Having made 244 of their first innings off the again of a affected person 74 by skipper Virat Kohli, India felt on prime at Adelaide Oval after dismissing Australia for simply 191 not lengthy earlier than the shut of day two.
Even ending the day 1-8 after the wicket of Prithvi Shaw for 4 wasn’t a catastrophe.
No. That got here within the first session of day three, when India was skittled for simply 36 runs, with Josh Hazlewood taking 5-8.
Not a single batter reached double figures — simply the second time that had ever occurred in a Check match.
To make issues worse, Mohammed Shami was dominated out of the remainder of the tour with a damaged arm and captain Virat Kohli left for the beginning of his youngster, leaving India with one thing of a makeshift squad for the remainder of the sequence …
36. Brisbane breached by babysitter Rishabh Pant (2021)
Earlier within the sequence, Tim Paine joked that Rishabh Pant might babysit his youngsters if he took up a proposal to play for the Hobart Hurricanes within the BBL.
Paine was not laughing by the top of the sequence although, because the undermanned Indians accomplished a exceptional comeback from the Adelaide catastrophe to change into the primary staff to beat Australia in a Check on the Gabba in 32 years.
Pant’s man-of-the-match efficiency got here after a wonderfully paced unbeaten 89 steered the Indians to one of many all-time nice run chases to finish a exceptional sequence victory.
37. Mooney and McGrath steer Australia to last-ball win (2021)
If you lose Alyssa Healy, Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry cheaply, you’d usually anticipate to be up in opposition to it. However that is not how this Australian girls’s staff work.
India made 7-274 within the seconds of three ODIs in Mackay, and would have felt very a lot within the field seat within the fifteenth over of Australia’s chase, with the hosts 4-52 and the large names again within the shed.
However 74 off 77 from Tahlia McGrath and an astonishing unbeaten 125 from Beth Mooney noticed Australia win off the ultimate ball, with Nicola Carey hitting the profitable runs for a memorable victory and an unassailable 2-0 sequence lead.
38. Australia win World Check Championship ultimate at The Oval (2023)
Australia would not have many gaps in its trophy cupboard, however the newly minted World Check Championship title, in simply its second iteration, had escaped them in its first yr.
Regardless of, the Aussies had an opportunity to win it on the second try in opposition to India at The Oval, and did so with aplomb.
Australia batted first and made 469, with Travis Head (163) and Steve Smith (121) main the way in which.
Pat Cummins took 3-83 to assist Australia set up a first-innings lead, and constructed a lead of 444 earlier than declaring of their second innings.
India although fell properly brief, bowled out for 234 on the fifth day, with Nathan Lyon (4-41) and Scott Boland (3-46) doing the injury.
39. Travis Head leads Australia to World Cup victory in Ahmedabad (2023)
Every part was set for India to assert the Cricket World Cup on residence soil.
An unbeaten group stage. Over 100,000 passionate and expectant supporters in Ahmedabad. An Australian staff that had struggled somewhat to get going.
After India made 240 and Australia was decreased to 3-47, these supporters will need to have anticipated victory to be a procession.
However Travis Head’s magnificent 137, as a part of a 192-run stand with Marnus Labuschagne, helped Australia quieten the quickly dispersing crowd.
Glenn Maxwell bludgeoned the profitable runs quickly after Head departed, job carried out, because the Aussies claimed a sixth World Cup title in opposition to a bewildered Indian facet.
40. India scores first Check win over Australia (2023)
It took 11 makes an attempt since that first assembly in 1977, however India’s girls lastly managed to file a Check victory over Australia on the Wankhede in 2023.
A brutal burst of spin from Sneh Rana and Rajeshwari Gayakwad within the first session of the fourth morning did the injury, taking 5-28 to depart India a goal of simply 75 runs.
Tahlia McGrath scored a half-century in each innings in a powerful show, however it was not sufficient for the Aussies.
