Feisty India aim to resurrect poor ODI record against Australia

Flying high after two consecutive Test wins India Women will now shift focus to whiteball cricket as they take on seventime world champions Australia in a threematch ODI series looking to resurrect their dismal record in the format on ThursdayIndia have been in top form winning their last three contests two Tests and one T20I after losing the first two T20Is to England and concede the threematch series in this long home seasonAfter crushing England by a record 347 runs in the oneoff Test India carried the momentum to defeat Australia by eight wickets last week here at the Wankhede Stadium which will also be the venue for the threematch ODI seriesGiven their current form India will eye more success in the fixtures lined up but the Harmanpreet Kaurled side would know that it has a huge task cut out against Australia who have historically dominated them in 50overs cricketIndia have only 10 wins and 40 losses to show from 50 ODIs against Australia overall while at home their record has been simply terribleWith only four wins in 21 ODIs and 17 defeats at home India have not beaten Australia in any of their last seven matches playing at home since February 2007In fact the last time India and Australia played ODI cricket at the Wankhede Stadium the home team suffered heavy defeats in March 2012 losing by 221 runs and five wickets in the last two ODIs of the threematch seriesAlso ReadIndiarsquos lsquoAussomersquo triumphIndia had lost the opening ODI heavily at Ahmedabad by 30 runs and were eventually whitewashedHowever India have a new leadership pair of skipper Harmanpreet and coach Amol Majumdar and it will be a perfect opportunity to bolster their preparations for the ODI World Cup in 2025 These games will also bring a chance to improve a recent poor record in 50overs cricket against this opponentIND vs AUS 1st ODI Indias ODI report cardIndia have lost each of the last seven ODIs including a 03 whitewash at home in 2018 against Australia to remain winless for about six years now a trend that Kaurs side would want to change starting with the first ODI to be played here on ThursdayIndia have added fresh talent to their arsenal going into this whiteball leg against Australia with the exciting Shreyanka Patil Saika Ishaque Mannat Kashyap and Titas Sadhu getting their maiden ODI callupsHowever India will be without Devika Vaidya who was dropped despite taking six wickets in three matches in BangladeshIndia have played only three ODIs this year a threematch away series in Bangladesh which ended in a 11 draw with the third game culminating in a tie in controversial circumstances leading to skipper Kaur being banned for the next two matchesWhile Jemimah Rodrigues has been Indias top runmaker in three ODIs this year with 129 runs for Australia it is their lefthand opener Beth Mooney who has amassed 387 runs with one century and two fifties in 11 matchesPhoebe Lichfield and Ellyse Perry have also been among runs for the visitors who will be keen to put the lessons learnt about the conditions during the oneoff Test to good use as new skipper Alyssa Healy looks to win another series with an eye on the 2024 T20 World Cup in BangladeshThe visitors will bank on Ashleigh Gardner 21 wickets in 11 ODIs this year to continue with her successful runOverall Australias confidence would not have taken a beating in the Test given whiteball cricket is a format that players are more used to something that Healy admitted as well after the oneoff TestIND vs AUS 1st ODI SquadsIndia Harmanpreet Kaur C Smriti Mandhana VC Jemimah Rodrigues Shafali Verma Deepti Sharma Yastika Bhatia wk Richa Ghosh wk Amanjot Kaur Shreyanka Patil Mannat Kashyap Saika Ishaque Renuka Singh Thakur Titas Sadhu Pooja Vastrakar Sneh Rana Harleen DeolAustralia Darcie Brown Heather Graham Ashleigh Gardner Kim Garth Alyssa Healy campwk Jess Jonassen Alana King Phoebe Litchfield Tahlia McGrath Beth Mooney wk Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Annabel Sutherland Georgia WarehamWith agency inputs