All of which means that India might well come back strong tomorrow night. That will be the final match of this multiformat series, and we’ll be here with it for you as ever. That’s it from me. Goodnight.

As for India… they really let that one slip. They were gone for all money while batting, until Vastrakar went to town in the last few overs and got them 118. Then it was Shikha Pandey starting off with a magic spell that got Australia rattled. Then came Rajeshwari Gayakwad, 3 for 21 from her four overs.

That was when the mistakes began. Carey was out in the 17th over to Gayakwad. India had just got away with an over from the seamer Renuka Singh that only cost six runs. Spin was clearly the way to go. Deepti and Harmanpreet had both been going at less than six an over, and each had two overs left. Yet instead of bowling spin, Harmanpreet went to pace. That was easier for the Australians to hit, instead of having to make pace on the ball. The field was also overly defensive to new players coming in, letting Carey and Wareham get away.

Australia may still have won against spin, but those last few overs could have been so much more difficult than they were.

But as has been the case all series, these Indian players do not know when they’re beaten. They’ve kept fighting in every match after the first ODI.

What a way to make a living. That is fine, fine work from Tahlia McGrath especially. She has been a fringe player across other formats through her career so far, and hadn’t even played T20s for Australia until this week. But her innings of 74 was key to winning the second ODI supporting Mooney, and her unbeaten 42 was the matchwinning hand tonight. She has been the key player in Australia’s series win.

Australia thought they were in for an easy night when they had India 81-9, but India made it a very tough one. The fact they’ve found a way through that challenge will be very satisfying to Australia.

19.1 overs: Australia 119-6 (McGrath 42, Wareham 10) That’s it. McGrath hits Vastrakar into her own pad and away into the off side, and races through for the final required run.

Five balls to spare, four wickets in hand.

19th over: Australia 118-6 (McGrath 41, Wareham 10) Yep, it’s going Australia’s way. Renuka Singh is given the ball. A full toss, McGrath walking at it to make it even higher. And hits it dead straight over the bowler for four.

Next ball, walks again, out through cover for four!

Full toss on the pads, flicked for two. They only need a boundary to win now. They take a few singles instead. And scores are level.

18th over: Australia 105-6 (McGrath 29, Wareham 9) Shikha Pandey, who started off this Indian bowling and fielding performance, to bowl her fourth over. Some shot from Tahlia McGrath, stepping right across her stumps and smacking through wide long-on, but the fielder is there and keeps her to one run.

Second ball, Wareham plays and misses!

24 from 16 required.

Wareham drives square for four! Almost saved at point, but just wide. Then a really poor piece of fielding from Deepti running around from deep cover. Goes down with one hand and misses the ball, as we saw so many Indian fielders do during the ODIs.

Too much space available for Wareham on the off side to score. She gets McGrath back on strike. Hits hard and straight but for one run.

Wareham back on strike. And she hits another four! Out through extra cover this time. Another fumble on the rope, Vastrakar this time, a harder save but could have been done. Or they might have had a deep cover in place. Wareham scores in that area a lot.

Should be Australia’s match from here: 14 from 12.

17th over: Australia 94-6 (McGrath 27, Wareham 0) That’s another busy over. It should have started with a run out: when Carey hits directly to Verma quite short at midwicket and runs. Verma though fires in a hard throw at the non-striker’s stumps instead of throwing to Gayakwad, the bowler. Misses. McGrath gets strike. And pulls for four! Really lays into that shot, through square leg between the fielders.

Fourth ball though is the stumping. Almost more important than the wicket is that it’s a dot. Two more dots follow, as Georgia Wareham hits twice to the off-side field.

Innnnteresting! I was just thinking earlier how clean Ghosh has been while keeping up to the stumps. This time she fumbles the stumping. Carey down the pitch, beaten by the left-armer. But Ghosh drops the ball onto the stumps. Lucky, but the wicket counts just as much as if she’d done it perfectly.

16th over: Australia 88-5 (McGrath 22, Carey 6) Seamers back. Renuka Singh with two overs left. Will the extra pace help Australia score? Single first ball for McGrath, flicked off her pads. A long wait while Harmanpreet sets the field for the left-handed Carey. Three boundary riders on the leg side, and deep cover. Yorker, but clipped out to deep midwicket and Carey can run two. Harmanpreet comes inside the circle at midwicket. Which makes sure the very next ball is kept to one run.

Slower ball from Renuka, knocked square by McGrath, almost back for a second but doesn’t risk it. Fifth ball, in at the pads of Carey, who is falling over as she digs it out to midwicket and can’t score. And a rushed single to mid-off to finish.

Six runs from that over. 31 off 24 the equation. Australia very much close enough to strike. Need one of those batter-scrambling overs with a wicket and a series of dot balls to stretch it out.

15th over: Australia 82-5 (McGrath 20, Carey 2) Harmanpreet is back to bowl. Can be a bit hard to read. It’s a gamble. Starts nicely. Single, dot. But bowls too wide from the third ball. That is McGrath’s absolute sweet spot, the cover drive, and she’s got the long arms to reach out to that width and smoke it. Beats cover in the circle, beats Yastika Bhatia running around from long-off.

Harmanpreet tightens right up thereafter, in at the stumps for two dots, then short and a cut to deep point for one. Less than the required rate despite a boundary, two overs in a row.

37 off 30.

14th over: Australia 76-5 (McGrath 15, Carey 1) Nicola Carey to the middle, single first ball. Flight to McGrath, an edge, and four! Would have been caught by a slip. Maybe Harmanpreet could afford to attack that bit more, with the left-arm spinner turning it away from the right-hander. Gayakwad pins down McGrath though, three dots to end the over, five runs from it.

To win: 43 runs from 36 balls.

THAT’S THE ONE! India will not quit! Mooney goes. She wants to take on the left-arm spinner. Down the track first ball of the over. Not sure if Gayakwad predicted that, or saw a tell from Mooney, but the bowler drags it well short. Mooney gets nowhere near the pitch of the ball. Misses it utterly, and is no chance to dive back into her ground.

13th over: Australia 71-4 (Mooney 34, McGrath 11) Vastrakar into her third over. Mooney not trying anything expansive. Back-cut straight to backward point. Advances and drives to deep cover but only for one. McGrath takes the onus on herself. Slaps a length ball through mid-on for four. So nearly caught, but hits the gap between mid-on and midwicket, both in the ring, to perfection. Accidentally, it was something of a miscue. But runs are runs.

That means 9 from the over, 48 off 42 needed.

12th over: Australia 62-4 (Mooney 30, McGrath 6) Deepti to bowl. Mooney vital. Six runs from Deepti’s over, just knocked around here and there. She gets away with one down the leg side to McGrath, who knocks it towards fine leg. Could have hit that for four. Or could have left it, got an extra for the wide, and got another ball to potentially hit for four.

57 from 48 required.

11th over: Australia 56-4 (Mooney 28, McGrath 4) Vastrakar back with the ball, and what a brilliant over she produces. Has McGrath dropped behind the stumps. Can’t blame Ghosh for that one, she sees the ball tailing in, moves towards the leg side, then McGrath guides it off the outside edge towards first slip. Ghosh flings out her right arm but can only parry it down. The next ball, it’s Mooney’s edge, and this one lands just in front of the keeper’s gloves. Three runs from the over.

63 from 54 required.

10th over: Australia 53-4 (Mooney 27, McGrath 2) Just as it was in that second ODI, Beth Mooney is the central player for Australia. And just as in that match, Tahlia McGrath joins her to help out. Pushes a single. Mooney sweeps another four! Outside leg again, and she sweeps fine. Beats the short fine.

Deepti pulls out of her bowling action… and I think she was looking to see what Mooney would do, but I also think McGrath was out of her ground. A little run-out of the non-striker would light up proceedings.

Runs required: 66 from 60 balls.

Perry Air! She hits it airborne, and leaping up at cover, the Indian captain snaffles it above her head. Deepti Sharma the bowler, floating an off-break out wide, Perry down on one knee trying to scythe the cover drive over the top. Game on.

9th over: Australia 46-3 (Mooney 22, Perry 2) Gayakward continuing, and should have been a run out! Perry knocks it to cover where Vastrakar misfields. Mooney starts running and calls her through. Perry slow to start. Vastrakar fast to recover. But her throw is too far wide of the stumps for Ghosh to get the bails off quickly. Had that throw been better, or had Vastrakar gone to the bowler’s end, one of these two would have been out. Mooney sweeps the final ball for four.

Australia need 73 from 66.

8th over: Australia 38-3 (Mooney 16, Perry 0) The next key wicket, Ellyse Perry. When you need a calm run chase at about 6 an over, she’s your player.

81 from 72 balls required.

This is… interesting. Harry Kaur has brought herself on to bowl. Liquorice allsorts spin. Not sure about the move when the ball has been swinging and the seamers have been dangerous.

But it works! A few singles, then the fifth ball of the over is genuine trash. Dragged down, sitting up, waiting to be smashed. Gardner obliges, cutting outside off stump. But in the air and straight to point. Massive for India.

7th over: Australia 35-2 (Mooney 14, Gardner 0) Key to this match is Ash Gardner. She’s been in great touch, she’s the most attacking player in this Australian team, and a quick 30 or 40 from her could end this match. But if India get her cheaply…

She defends her first three balls, settling into the game. Two runs, one wicket, from the over.

84 needed from 78.

Gone! Done in the air by the left-arm spinner! Gayakwad comes on as soon as the field can go back. She hangs one up in the air, drawing Lanning down the wicket, and she’s just not quite to the pitch. Enough turn from Gayakwad to beat the shot, and Lanning would have been stumped by a metre except that she’s also nicked the ball through to Richa Ghosh.

6th over: Australia 33-1 (Mooney 13, Lanning 14) Vastrakar’s turn with the ball now, and while Lanning hits her down the ground for four first ball, she responds by jagging one away from the edge. Third ball, swerves in the air away from her! It’s on the line of the stumps, then swings away late, beating her edge and hitting her hip on the day down to deep third. They run a leg bye for evasive action, but that wasn’t evasion, that was just not knowing where the ball was.

Serious stuff from Vastrakar, but she lets herself down with a short ball to Mooney with two players inside the circle behind point. Mooney just helps it over the top of them for four.

Good bowling, but the runs have kept coming anyway. Now the Australians are through the powerplay, nine wickets in hand, and needing a run a ball. India need more wickets to keep the pressure on.

5th over: Australia 24-1 (Mooney 9, Lanning 10) Classic Meg Lanning. She’s got two backward points in place, and she threads it between them for four. A partial misfield in there, but that’s her spot. Shikha Pandey responds with the same ball that got Healy, almost a replica! But a few inches shorter, so it clears the bails. Goodness me.

Fourth of the over, into the pads and Lanning edges it. Then another that hoops in and Lanning launches into it, wanting to counter-attack, and hits it high over mid-on where it lands safely and stops. Two runs. Followed by a wide and a single. Australia might just have weathered the storm.

4th over: Australia 16-1 (Mooney 9, Lanning 3) Brilliant again from Renuka Singh. Has Mooney walking at her and missing, then staying put and edging to deep third. Has Lanning hit on the pad but missing leg stump, then playing at her feet and about seven Indian fielders swarm at the ball. They are switched on! Keen. It’s tense out there. But Mooney punctures it a bit by swinging across the line, first for two runs to wide long on, then four behind square.

3rd over: Australia 8-1 (Mooney 2, Lanning 2) Three singles, then Mooney finds herself marooned against Pandey as well. This time the swing going away from the lefty, who after edging through about third slip earlier in the over, keeps getting squared up just trying to get bat to ball and play it down into the ground. She’s beaten comprehensively by a ball that misses the off stump by a fraction, then tries to hit over midwicket and hangs it up in the air, landing just beyond that fielder for a single.

2nd over: Australia 4-1 (Mooney 0, Lanning 0) Renuka Singh bowls to Mooney… and that is a scoreless over! Six dots in a row, in the powerplay. That is gold for India. All angled across the left-hander, but keeping the line tight, and with the early wicket Mooney decides to play it safe.

1st over: Australia 4-1 (Mooney 0, Lanning 0) Couple of balls later, another inswinger hits Lanning in front. I would have given that out, after seeing the previous one. Ball-tracking says it hit just outside the line. That’s some opening over from Pandey.

Absolute magic from Shikha Pandey! She can swing the ball, and never any more savagely or to greater effect than that! This ball starts way outside off stump. Initially, it looks like it’s going to hold its line and then swing away. Then – surely this is an optical illusion? – it looks like it has changed course, gone the other way. It swerves, like the target in a car chase, back in towards Healy. Beats her by an absolute mile, and hits the bail between middle and off stumps.

Wow. Just wow.