The 1st T20 match of the Australia Women’s tour of India, in 2022 is scheduled to be held on Friday, 9th December 2022 at Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai.

India had picked a strong team to face Australia in this home series of five T20 matches. Remember that India had won four out of the most recent five T20 matches. They have some great players in their squad for this series. Harmanpreet Kaur is the captain of team India and she is also in good form. Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, and Smriti Mandhana are experienced batters in the Indian squad. Smriti Mandhana had been just superb in some recent T20 matches. She had scored 2437 runs in 98 innings with an average of 27.38. We are sure that she will perform well and prove the highest run-scorer in this series.

Jemimah Rodrigues is another batter who is in good form. She had batted in 57 innings with 1490 runs to her name and her average is 31.70. India also has some good bowlers available for this series against Australia. Deepti Sharma had been in decent form in the most recent matches and had played well. She had picked 81 wickets in 76 innings. Rajeshwari Gayakwad is the other best bowler of the T20 format of cricket and will be leading the bowlers of team India. She had picked 54 wickets in 43 innings. It will be very difficult for the batters of Australia to score runs freely against these two bowlers. Radha Yadav, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh, and Anjali Sarvani are other bowlers in the Indian squad.

Almost all Australian players had recently played in WBBL and the management of this team had sent a great squad for this five matches series against India. Alyssa Healy had been appointed as the captain while Beth Mooney, Heather Graham, and Ashleigh Gardner are in the squad of Australia. These all players were just superb in the recent edition of WBBL. Beth Mooney had also played decent cricket at the international level. She had batted in 65 innings and scored 1893 runs with an average of 37.86.

Heather Graham had played a lot of T20 games in domestic cricket and in a different league but had played just 1 T20 international. She is a good young batter and her role will be very important for this series. The bowling department of Australia is also strong. Jess Jonassen will be leading the bowling unit of Australia. She had picked 87 wickets in 90 innings. Megan Schutt is another best bowlers of the shorter format of cricket. She had played 83 T20 matches for Australia and picked 108 wickets. Alana King is a rising spring bowler of Australia. She had just played 11 matches and had 14 wickets to her name. The conditions in India are good for spin bowlers and we are sure that Alana King will play the main role in this series.

As per our cricket match prediction, Australia Women is the favorite team to win this match. The reasons why Australia Women is a favorite team in this match, are mentioned below:

• Australia Women are a talented and experienced team
• Jemimah Rodrigues and Smriti Mandhana are in good form for India
• Deepti Sharma and Rajeshwari Gayakwad will play the main role in this match
• Australia had won four matches in a row against India

Australia Women has a strong batting order and bowling unit as compared to India Women, so the winning chances of Australia Women for today’s match have been increased. The equation of winning the chances of both teams for today’s match is mentioned as under.

Australia Women has a 60% chance to win this match
India Women has a 40% chance to win this match

The toss can play an important role in the decision of this match. According to our toss prediction, the team who will win the toss may elect to bat first.

The 1st T20 match between India Women and Australia Women is going to be played at Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai. The pitch at this stadium is excellent for batting. The boundaries at this venue are short and will bring the spinners into play. The pitch will continue to be good for batting throughout the match.

The weather forecast in Mumbai on match day is not very good. There are some chances of rain but that is possible that we may have an interrupted match.

It will be updated shortly

• Date: Friday, 9th December 2022
• Time: 01:30 PM GMT / 07:00 PM LOCAL, 06:30 PM IST

• Stadium: Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy
• Location: Mumbai, India
• Opened: 2007
• Capacity: 60,000
• Ends: Media End, Pavilion End
• Time Zone: UTC +05:30
• Floodlights: Yes

Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia (wk), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Renuka Singh Thakur, Meghna Singh, Anjali Sarvani, Devika Vaidya, S Meghana, Richa Ghosh (wicket-keeper), Harleen Deol.