{"id":8534,"date":"2026-02-24T18:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/healy-starts-final-series-with-australia-win\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T18:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:20:04","slug":"healy-starts-final-series-with-australia-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/healy-starts-final-series-with-australia-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Healy starts final series with Australia win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByTimothy AbrahamBBC Sport Journalist<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published18 minutes ago<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#comments\">3 Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First one-day international, Brisbane<\/p>\n<p>India 214 (48.3 overs): Mandhana 58 (68); Kaur 53 (84), Gardner 3-33<\/p>\n<p>Australia 217-4 (38.2 overs): Mooney 76 (79), Healy 50 (70)<\/p>\n<p>Australia won by six wickets<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-227555#IND\">Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Healy began her final series before retirement with a half-century as Australia eased to a six-wicket victory over India in the opening one-day international.<\/p>\n<p>She scored 50 off 70 balls opening the batting as Australia chased down a target of 215 with 11.4 overs to spare in the day-night match at Allan Border Field in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Beth Mooney made a fluent 76 off 79 balls before all-rounder Annabel Sutherland hit an unbeaten 48, sealing victory with a six off Deepti Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>Hobart will stage the final two matches of the series, on Friday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#x27;s defeat by India in the <a href=\"\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/czd8y6v8n9lo\">T20 series<\/a> this month was their first at home in nine years.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A little bit was put on us about how we were going to bounce back,&quot; said Healy.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;To come out and play the way we did today was clinical. I&#x27;m proud of the group.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana made gritty half-centuries in India&#x27;s 214 all out, while Kashvee Gautam contributed 43 from number eight.<\/p>\n<p>Off-spinner Ash Gardner claimed 3-33 and seamer Megan Schutt 2-42.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/cricket\/teams\/australia\">Australia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/cricket\">Cricket<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/articles\/cl5q9dk9jl3o\">\n<p>Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published16 August 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healy starts final series with Australia winImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Alyssa Healy has played 10 Tests, 123 one-day internationals and 162 T20sByTimothy AbrahamBBC Sport JournalistPubli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}