23 august 2024 : Spinners Minnu Mani and Priya Mishra shared nine wickets between them as India A bundled out Australia A for 212 to gain the upper hand on the first day of the one-off four-day game. India A reached 100/2 at stumps.
Skipper and off-spinner Minnu (5/58) and rookie leg-spinner Priya (4/58) put the Australian batting unit in a tailspin as they lost all the 10 wickets to the visiting slow bowlers.
The Australian batters struggled against Indian spinners and it was a continuation from the third One-day game last week when Priya troubled them with a five-wicket haul at Mackay.
Opener Georgia Voll (71 off 95 balls) was fluent during her stay but she fell to left-arm spinner Mannat Kashyap as the Australians slumped to 94/4.
It required resistance from their lower-order batters Maitlan Brown (30 off 49 balls) and Grace Parsons (35 off 55 balls) for the hosts to go past the 200-run mark.
India lost Priya Punia (7) very early in their innings to be reduced to 13/1. Shubha Satheesh also departed without contributing much. At 47/2, India needed a steadying partnership and Shweta Sehrawat (40 not out off 109 balls) provided that in the company of Tejal Hasabnis (31 not out off 64 balls).
Brief scores: Australia A: 212 all out in 65.5 overs (Voll 71; Minnu 5/58, Priya 4/58); India A: 100/2 in 36 overs (Shweta 40*, Tejal 31*).
