New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Hold on to your seats. After eighteen long years, India Women have finally cracked the Aussie code on home soil - and how! A thumping 102-run win in New Chandigarh has blown this ODI series wide open, 1-1, and set up a mouth-watering decider at the Arun Jaitley Stadium here tomorrow.
Smriti Mandhana was simply majestic the other night - a 77-ball 117, pure class from start to finish. She took the attack to Australia, found the gaps, and made it look easy. Deepti Sharma played the perfect foil with a steady 40, and India put 292 on the board. Darcie Brown tried hard with three wickets, but that Mandhana knock was on a different planet.
Then came the bowlers - disciplined, hungry, relentless. Renuka Singh Thakur struc...