India Women’s National Cricket Team vs Australia Women’s National Cricket Team Match Scorecard

LONDON — Harmanpreet Kaur’s 56 off 27 balls lifted India Women to 170 for 4, a total no side had chased down at a Women’s T20 World Cup. Ellyse Perry walked to the crease with Australia at 53 for 3, seven overs remaining and 118 still required. She and Ashleigh Gardner added an unbroken 115 at roughly 14 runs an over. When Georgia Wareham hit the boundary that completed the chase with an over to spare, India’s World Cup was finished.

The India women’s national cricket team vs Australia women’s national cricket team match scorecard from June 28, 2026 — the 30th Group 1 fixture at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, played at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London — was the year’s most consequential meeting between the two sides. It was also the second major context in which they had faced each other in 2026. Their bilateral series across three formats in Australia four months earlier had run to seven matches and produced a more layered picture of the rivalry.

India’s innings was constructed in two distinct phases. Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma opened with a 66-run stand: Verma hit 34 off 26 before Sophie Molineux bowled through the gate, Mandhana accumulated 38 off 37 before a run-out off Nicola Hamilton’s sharp throw. Jemimah Rodrigues then held the middle overs together with 34 off 28, measured and precise, retiring out in the final stages to give the lower order more deliveries. Then Harmanpreet arrived. Her last 14 balls produced 42 runs: six fours, three sixes, the final over going for 24. India’s 170 was their highest against Australia in Women’s T20 World Cup cricket.

India Women Batting — ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 1, Lord’s, June 28, 2026

Australia Women Bowling

Australia needed 171 from 20 overs. Georgia Voll lasted two balls, lbw to Renuka Singh in the first over. Beth Mooney made 22 before a Deepti Sharma delivery found Richa Ghosh’s gloves. Phoebe Litchfield contributed 24 before Saima Thakor had her caught by Mandhana at mid-off. At 53 for 3 with seven overs remaining, India’s bowlers had given themselves every chance. Perry and Gardner spent the next 47 balls removing it. Perry’s 56 from 38 deliveries — eight fours, methodical rather than explosive — kept the required rate in reach while Gardner constructed her own attack: 53 not out from 29 balls, three sixes clearing the leg-side boundary in the final three overs. India took no wickets across the last seven overs of the chase.

Australia Women Batting

India Women Bowling

Perry was named Player of the Match. The result confirmed South Africa as the second semi-finalist from Group 1 alongside Australia. India’s group-stage exit, despite three wins from five matches, came down to this one performance: a total that was genuinely threatening and a partnership that dismantled it. As Sky Sports reported, Perry and Gardner’s 115-run partnership was the highest of the tournament to that point. Australia went on to win a record-extending seventh Women’s T20 World Cup title at the same ground ten days later.

The T20 World Cup match was the second major chapter of a 2026 rivalry that had opened with India Women’s bilateral tour of Australia from February 15 to March 9. That series ran across seven matches in three formats and produced a result that divided cleanly along format lines.

India won the T20I series 2-1, their first T20I series victory over Australia in a decade. The first match in Sydney went India’s way by 21 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method after rain intervened. Australia leveled the series in Canberra with a 19-run win. The third T20I at Adelaide Oval settled it: Smriti Mandhana’s 82 off 55 balls anchored a total Australia could not chase, and India won by 17 runs.

The ODI series ran in the opposite direction. Australia won all three matches, including a second-ODI performance at Hobart that produced 409 for 7, one of the highest totals in women’s ODI cricket. India’s batting, which had functioned with precision in the short format, could not sustain the pressure across 50 overs. The series was decided before the third match began.

The one Test, played in Perth, lasted less than four days. Annabel Sutherland scored 129 and took four wickets; Australia won by 10 wickets. Sutherland was named Player of the Series. The margin in the longest format reflected a structural gap that neither the T20I series result nor the World Cup encounter had closed: India’s batting, formidable in bursts, had not yet demonstrated it could sustain itself across a Test match against Australia’s attack.

At the bilateral level, Australia’s points tally across the 2026 tour series was 12 to India’s 4. At the World Cup, the single match that mattered most went the same way. Whether the next bilateral meeting or the next ICC event produces a different outcome is the question both programs are building toward, with the talent base on both sides still deepening.

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