Megan Schutt to Smriti Mandhana, FOUR! Another fortunate boundary for Smriti Mandhana and she seems to be riding her luck so far. On a length, swinging away from the southpaw. Smriti Mandhana shimmies down the track and pokes at it. Gets it edged off the outside and the ball flies past the left of Phoebe Litchfield at second slip for another boundary in this over.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, Good length, onto the pads. Pratika Rawal tucks this through backward square leg for a single.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, FOUR! Cut away for four from Rawal. Short and wide outside the off stump. Pratika Rawal plants her back foot deep inside the crease, plays this late and cuts this past the left of the diving fielder at point for four more runs.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, On a length, around off, swinging it back into the batter. Pratika Rawal pushes this to mid off for another dot.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, Good length, on off, Pratika Rawal works it across to mid-wicket.
Darcie Brown to Smriti Mandhana, Shorter and on off, Smriti Mandhana rocks back and punches it down to cover-point.
Darcie Brown to Smriti Mandhana, Inswinging fuller one, outside off. Smriti Mandhana just dabs this to the fielder at gully. A polite appeal from the Aussies to check if this was a bump ball of a straight catch. The replay shows that it was a bump ball.
Darcie Brown to Smriti Mandhana, On a length wide of off, Smriti Mandhana punches this to extra cover for no run.
Darcie Brown to Smriti Mandhana, Pitched up, around off, Smriti Mandhana drives this through the covers region for a couple this time.
Darcie Brown to Smriti Mandhana, FOUR! A fortunate boundary for Smriti. Good length, angling across the left-hander. Smriti Mandhana steps down the track and looks for the one swinging back into her. Goes for the punch but gets an outside edge that goes straight past the keeper to her left and the fielder at slip to her right for a boundary behind the stumps.
Darcie Brown to Smriti Mandhana, WIDE! Brown errs in line again and fires one down the leg. Wided.
Darcie Brown to Smriti Mandhana, Full and around off, Smriti Mandhana pushes this to covers for no run.
Darcie Brown to Smriti Mandhana, WIDE! Full and wide down the leg, Smriti Mandhana misses out on a flick. Wide called by the umpire.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, Back of a length around off, Pratika Rawal steps across and defends this well.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, FOUR! Almost an action replay from the previous boundary in the same over. Full and swinging it back into the batter, Pratika Rawal leans over it, gets right on top of the bounce and drives this through the covers region for four more runs.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, Good length, around off, swinging back into the batter. Pratika Rawal blocks this as well. Looking solid is Rawal.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, An inswinging delivery, into the batter on her off-stump. Pratika Rawal presses in front and blocks.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, FOUR! Here comes the first boundary of the contest and Rawal hits it. Pitched a touch up, around off, Pratika Rawal gets right on top of the bounce and nails the cover drive to perfection. The ball doesn't travel much in the air and goes grounded to the fence behind covers for four.
Megan Schutt to Smriti Mandhana, A bit of width on offer to Smriti, wide of off. Mandhana rocks deep inside her crease and cuts this to deep third for a run.
Darcie Brown to Pratika Rawal, Another full and wide of off, shaping away from the batter. Pratika Rawal leaves it.
Darcie Brown to Pratika Rawal, In the channel, wide of off, Pratika Rawal gives it a good look and decides not to have a go at it.
Darcie Brown to Pratika Rawal, On a length around the pads, Pratika Rawal flicks this through mid-wicket and takes a couple here.
Darcie Brown to Pratika Rawal, Good length, around off, Pratika Rawal drives this to the right of covers for no run.
The on-air commentators give some updates about Sophie Molineux's injury. They mention that she is out for the entire series, which includes the Test match as well next week.
Darcie Brown to Pratika Rawal, A touch fuller, around off, looking to shape it away from the right-hander. Pratika Rawal strides out in front and keeps it out.
Darcie Brown to Smriti Mandhana, A poor start from Brown but Smriti Mandhana doesn't cash in. Full toss around the pads, Smriti Mandhana gently flicks this to the right of Alana King at deep backward suare leg for just one.
Tidy start from Megan Schutt, just two runs off the opening over. Darcie Brown will operate from the other end.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, Good length around off, Pratika Rawal gets right behind the line of it and blocks this off her front foot.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, On a length, shaping back into the batter. Pratika Rawal tucks this to mid-wicket for a dot.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, On a length around off, Pratika Rawal blocks this off her front foot.
Megan Schutt to Smriti Mandhana, Good length, shaping away from the batter. Smriti Mandhana pushes this to extra cover for one run to get off the mark as well.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, Hard length, around off again, Pratika Rawal pushes this a bit wide to that fielder at cover-point and gets off the mark.
Megan Schutt to Pratika Rawal, A good start to this contest. On a length. shaping back into the batter. Pratika Rawal punches this to cover-point for a dot.
All in readiness for the game to begin. The umpires are out in the middle and so are the players of Australia Women. It will be the left-hand, right-hand duo of Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal to open the innings for India Women. Megan Schutt will get proceedings underway with the ball. Let's play...
Sophie Molineux ruled out - The Australia Women's skipper, Alyssa Healy, says that they need to focus on what they do well and getting first crack with the ball on this wicket is a good thing for them as it has some live grass on it. Mentions that the series is set up beautifully with the Test match to come as well, but feels that both teams will go hammer and tongs in this match. Informs that Sophie Molineux has a slight niggle and Nicola Carey comes in to replace her.
Knee is fine, says Kaur, India Women's skipper! Harmanpreet Kaur says that as a group, they decided that they want to put a good total on the board. On her injury, Harman mentions that she had a small problem with her left knee, but she is fine now. Informs that they have made two changes with Shafali Verma and Renuka Singh Thakur being rested today, with Amanjot Kaur and Vaishnavi Sharma coming in. Further adds that Vaishnavi is someone who has done brilliantly at the U-19 level and hopes that she can do it on the big stage as well.
Australia Women (Playing XI) - Alyssa Healy (C), Phoebe Litchfield, Georgia Voll, Beth Mooney (WK), Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Nicola Carey (replaces Sophie Molineux), Alana King, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown.
India Women (Playing XI) - Pratika Rawal, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Amanjot Kaur (replaces Shafali Verma), Richa Ghosh (WK), Deepti Sharma, Kashvee Gautam, Sree Charani, Kranti Gaud, Vaishnavi Sharma (replaces Renuka Singh Thakur).
TOSS - India Women have won the coin flip and Harmanpreet Kaur, the skipper of India Women, has elected to BAT first.