India, Feb. 21 -- India will need their batting big guns to fire collectively against an experienced Australian bowling group in the third and final women's T20 International to seal a historic maiden series triumph Down Under on Saturday. Despite registering a few victories in the past, the Indian women are yet to score a bilateral series win in Australia across all three formats.

To change that script, India need a better batting effort here, and it starts from openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma. Both Smriti and Shafali got starts but failed to kick on, impeding India's relatively easy-looking chase of 164 in the second match. The veteran Aussie trio of Kim Garth, Annabel Sutherland and Sophie Molineux exploited that opening, ge...