{"id":358715,"date":"2024-01-09T19:28:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=358715"},"modified":"2024-01-09T23:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:02:27","slug":"skipper-leads-aussies-to-clinical-series-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=358715","title":{"rendered":"Skipper leads Aussies to 'clinical' series victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia<\/a> has completed a near-perfect tour to India\ufeff<\/a> by clinching the Twenty20<\/a> series, a week after sealing the ODI chocolates too.<\/p>\n

New captain Alyssa Healy<\/a> led the charge as the Aussies won the deciding third match in Mumbai by seven wickets.<\/p>\n

The Aussies were up against it when India made 147, but the visitors were equal to the task.<\/p>\n

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And it was Healy who led the way, blasting 55 from 38 deliveries to \ufefflay the platform for the chase.<\/p>\n

\"Phoebe<\/p>\n

Her opening partner Beth Mooney hit an unbeaten 52, and was with prodigious young star Phoebe Litchfield when they won it only three wickets down.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffThat is Moons' and my job, to get us off to a good start and get that run rate down as quickly as possible," Healy said after the win.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffIt came off tonight, we did it OK the night before as well.<\/p>\n

"The last two games we've been really clinical\ufeff, so happy with that.<\/p>\n

\"Alyssa<\/p>\n

"When you are chasing a total like that, the quicker you get it down to a run a ball it's better.<\/p>\n

"It gives the team an opportunity to get the chase done and if there are wickets falling in the middle it makes it easier for those coming on."<\/p>\n

Earlier, Annabel Sutherland and Georgia Wareham each took two wickets as India lost six in their innings.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Australia wins the T20 series 2-1 and will head home with both that and the ODI trophy to show for a successful tour.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia has completed a near-perfect tour to India\ufeff by clinching the Twenty20 series, a week after sealing the ODI chocolates too. New captain Alyssa Healy […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358720,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358715\/revisions\/358720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/358717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}