Australia have absorbed Deepti Sharma’s historic five-wicket haul and Richa Ghosh’s batting masterclass to notch a nailbiting, series-clinching three-run win over India within the second girls’s one-day worldwide in Mumbai.

After a bungling, butterfingered fielding show from India allowed Australia to submit 8-258, the hosts appeared properly on observe of their reply at Wankhede Stadium on Saturday (Sunday AEDT) earlier than faltering late to complete on 8-255.

The win ensures Australia keep their report of by no means having misplaced a bilateral girls’s ODI collection to India after transferring to an unassailable 2-0 lead within the three-match rubber.

Annabel Sutherland (3-47) took all of her wickets in her telling spell on the demise, together with the important thing scalp of Ghosh on 96 when India had been cruising at 4-218.

After India had been left to rue seven grassed probabilities, Australia’s catching was equally slipshod with Ghosh given lives on nought (by Phoebe Litchfield) and 36 (by Sutherland) earlier than her majestic knock ended, caught Litchfield, bowled Sutherland.

With 22 required off the final three overs, Sutherland took 1-3 off the forty eighth and Ash Gardner 1-3 within the forty ninth to place the chase, abruptly, past India’s attain.

Tahlia McGrath dropped a straightforward catch within the fiftieth over to disclaim Sutherland a fourth wicket, reprieving debutant Shreyanka Patil, whose last-ball 4 proved educational.

“All the way, we held our nerve as much as possible,” player-of-the-match Sutherland stated.

ODI live: Australia claim series win over India

“It was pretty cool to have the chance to do that at the end.

“Nice that Midgey [captain Alyssa Healy] had religion in me and I used to be capable of do the job.”

After the early loss of Yastika Bhatia (14), fellow opener Smriti Mandhana, whose absence through illness hurt India in the series opener, fashioned a typically classy 34 before lofting legspinner Alana King’s second ball to McGrath in the deep.

In-form Jemimah Rodrigues (44) added 88 for the third wicket before falling to a superb catch from a diving Litchfield.

Ghosh was hampered by cramps but when she finally departed, so did India’s hopes of levelling the series.

Earlier, Sharma became the first Indian bowler to collect a five-wicket haul against Australia in women’s ODIs.

Sharma extracted prodigious turn to snare 5-38, piloting the tourists’ demise from 1-117 to 8-219 before King’s cameo 28no, combined with India’s shoddy fielding, boosted Australia’s final total.

Litchfield (63) was dropped by Amanjot Kaur with the second ball of the match and again on 16 by Bhatia, a sitter at slip.