Watch: In the Mumbai Test match, Ellyse Perry was bowled second ball as Pooja Vastrakar produced a vicious nip-backer.
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Australia were in trouble soon after Alyssa Healy won the toss and opted to bat in the lone Test match, at the Wankhede Stadium. In the last ball of the first over, bowled by Renuka Singh Thakur, Phoebe Litchfield was run out after a misunderstanding with Beth Mooney.
That brought Ellyse Perry to the crease. Unlike the Navi Mumbai Test match against England, where India used off-spinner Sneh Rana to open bowling with Thakur, Pooja Vastrakar got the new ball.
Mooney got a run off the second ball, but yet again there was a misunderstanding – albeit without a dismissal.
Perry then edged the third ball of the over – the first of her innings – for four. Vastakar’s next ball pitched on a good length and came back between Perry’s bat and pad to hit the off and middle stumps, leaving Australia reeling at 7-2 after 10 balls into the Test match.
Tahlia McGrath took on the Indian bowlers, hitting eight fours in a 56-ball 50 out of a partnership of 80 before Rana had her caught at mid-wicket. Mooney (40) gloved the last ball before lunch, bowled by Vastrakar (2-29) to slip, and Australia went into the break at 103-4. At the crease was Healy, on nine.
