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25th over: India 120-1 (Mandhana 74, Deol 37) Deol is back in action after a going over from the physio. The mercury is still touching 39 degrees in Perth.

We’ve got a short delay here whilst Deol suffers from cramp and takes on board some pickle juice. Yummy. The umpires call for other (less revolting) drinks.

24th over: India 117-1 (Mandhana 72, Deol 36) Six! Mandhana breaks the green and gold shackles by trotting down the wicket and depositing the new bowler – Tahlia McGrath – for a big one back over the bowler’s head. A glide for two then brings up the 100 partnership between Mandhana and Deol. They are keeping their side in the chase.

23rd over: India 108-1 (Mandhana 63, Deol 36) After all that there was just a solitary single off Molineux’s first over. And crucially, no wicket.

WICKET OVERTURNED! Molineux pins Deol in front and the umpire raises the finger. Justin Langer is in the commentary box and says he has his finger up… replays show the ball was missing the stumps and the decision is over turned.

Hard luck ‘JL’. I do like the wild eyed Langer. I like writing about him too. His appearance with a mute Graeme Hick on series one of The Test was so strangely compelling…

22nd over: India 107-1 (Mandhana 62, Deol 36) Just a couple off Ash Gardner. Sophie Molineux and her left-arm spin are being summoned.

21st over: India 105-1 (Mandhana 61, Deol 35) Australia and the Perth wicket are looking decidedly flat. India bring up their hundred as Perry misses her line and length again, Mandhana flicking gratefully off her hip for four runs.

20th over: India 99-1 (Mandhana 56, Deol 34) Drop! Another chance goes begging! Deol gets her second life as she sweeps Gardner to Megan Schutt at square leg, the fielder makes a hash of it and the ball hits the turf. Gardner can barely look. That should’ve been swallowed.

19th over: India 97-1 (Mandhana 55, Deol 33) Ellyse Perry returns for a stint at the other end, she doesn’t look at her best with the ball at the moment, spearing one down the leg side and narrowly avoiding a wide on the other side with the over-correction. Perry offers too much width once again and Deol frees her arms to splat it over the in-field and away for four.

18th over: India 88-1 (Mandhana 55, Deol 26) Deol breaks the 25 ball boundary drought with a fine sweep off Gardner that bisects the fielders on the square leg boundary.

17th over: India 82-1 (Mandhana 54, Deol 21) Drop! Deol drives back uppishly at a very catchable height to Sutherland but the bowler can’t hang on in her follow through!

16th over: India 78-1 (Mandhana 52, Deol 20) Three runs off Ash Gardner, a Deol sweep for a couple and a Mandhana drive down the ground. We’re into a holding pattern folks.

15th over: India 75-1 (Mandhana 51, Deol 18) A quiet over, just a Mandhana single off Sutherland’s third.

14th over: India 74-1 (Mandhana 50, Deol 18) Ash Gardner comes into the attack for Australia, she’s pocketed Mandhana four times in this format but can’t get the breakthrough this over. Mandhana has the best of the over, driving in-to-out over cover for a classy boundary and then tucking off her pads for a single to bring up her 28th ODI fifty. Well played but job not done, her side need her to convert this and get a big one.

13th over: India 69-1 (Mandhana 45, Deol 18) A meaty edge from Mandhana flies away for four and brings up the fifty partnership between this pair, off 48 balls. Steady going, India aren’t quite at the required rate of six an over but they are thereabouts and are keeping wickets in hand.

12th over: India 62-1 (Mandhana 40, Deol 17) Perry once more, gah, she serves up a juicy full toss with her frist ball and Mandhana doesn’t miss out, panning it away through the leg side for an easy boundary. A single down the ground brings Deol on strike. Two more to India as Deol swivels a pull into the leg side and they come back for two with Phoebe Litchfield doing the chasing in the sweltering Western Australia heat. This partnership is proving a useful one for India.

11th over: India 55-1 (Mandhana 35, Deol 15) Annabelle Sutherland, century maker extraordinaire in Australia’s innings, is coming on for a bowl. She nearly gets the wicket too, zipping one off a good length that Deol edges wide of slip and away for four.

10th over: India 48-1 (Mandhana 35, Deol 9) Ellyse Perry replaces Kim Garth. Drop! Perry’s first ball is short and whipped away by Mandhana, the ball flies to Alana King at square leg and bursts through her hands and away to the fence. That was hit hard but was very catchable. King kicks the turf in frustration, she’ll be disappointed with that.

Shot! Mandhana hangs back and pulls Perry over midwicket for four. That was almost disdainful, Perry has lost a touch of pace – she hasn’t bowled much in this series either – and the batter looked like she was setting herself to take down anything back of a length.

9th over: India 40-1 (Mandhana 27, Deol 9) Megan Schutt into her fifth over and she could be wilting under the 40 degree heat in Perth, a half volley is pinged away by Deol for four and Mandhana finds the fence too with a drive through cover.

8th over: India 31-1 (Mandhana 23, Deol 5) Mandhana misses out with a flick off the pads but scampers a single. Deol looks a bit scratchy but then stands tall to punch for a couple through cover.

7th over: India 28-1 (Mandhana 22, Deol 3) A single to each batter bookends Schutt’s over.

6th over: India 26-1 (Mandhana 21, Deol 2) Mandhana takes two boundaries off Kim Garth, tickling fine and pulling powerfully through midwicket.

5th over: India 17-1 (Mandhana 13, Deol 1) Harleen Deol is the new batter. She nudges a single into the leg side to get off the mark. Mandhana drops anchor for the rest of the over.

Harleen Deol sounds like the name of someone who could have a soulful Christmas Album no? Maybe I’m thinking of Darlene Love? Any excuse.

This is one of *the best* Christmas tunes and I won’t hear different. I am all ears for OBO followers faves though. No Cliff, obvs.

Stumps splattered by Schutt! Ghosh is defeated by a ball that decks back and keeps a little low. India lose their first. Someone’s going to have to knock the furniture back in once again.

4th over: India 16-0 (Mandhana 13, Ghosh 2) Yes please! Someone in the Indian backroom is obviously reading the OBO and has sent a message to gerronwithit.

Mandhana helps a leg side ball from Garth past Beth Mooney behind the stumps for four and then finishes the over with a crunching cut shot for four. Nine off the over. Let’s have it.

3rd over: India 7-0 (Mandhana 5, Ghosh 2) More stump hammering at the other end but from the ground staff rather than the bowler. It’s a top over from ‘The Shooter’ though, just a single off it. India need more than six runs an over, they let the rate get well away from them on Sunday, I’m praying their top order make this interesting and take a few risks.

C’mon India, get your Kenny Rogers on…

2nd over: India 6-0 (Mandhana 4, Ghosh 2) There is a delay whilst the stumps are re-adjusted, it looks like the pitch is baked so hard that the stumps aren’t quite knocked in to position. Crikey. It’s a mighty 5 degrees and phlegmy with cloud here in London, FYI.

Just two off Garth’s first over, as Ghosh drives into the covers. Sedate start from India, let’s hope they give this a good go.

1st over: India 4-0 (Mandhana 4, Ghosh) Schutt goes short early and is steered away for a controlled couple of runs through the leg side. She then opens the face and glides into the off side for two more. Four off the first over as the sun beats down in Perth. Kim Garth will have the next over with the new nut.

James Wallace

Thanks Martin and hello all. Megan Schutt has the white ball in hand, Smriti Mandhana is on strike. Play!

Thanks for following along to this point. James Wallace will steer us home as India chase 299 to avoid a series sweep on a deck that looks like a handy one for the batters at least once they’re in.

Australia have set India another ominous target after Annabel Sutherland took control of a faltering innings with a superb knock. The all-rounder amassed 110 to guide the recovery before being run out off the second last ball of the innings. By then Sutherland had hit her second ODI ton, the first ODI century by an Australian woman batting at No 5 or lower, as well as her highest score in the format.

Captain Tahlia McGrath (56 not out) and Ash Gardner (50) were critical to Australia’s fightback after India pacer Arundhati Reddy had them on the ropes. The 27-year-old shook up the game with four top-order scalps as Australia lost as many wickets for 20 runs before their devastating middle order took charge. Arundhati finished with four for 26 but Deepti Sharma (one for 77) was the only other India bowler to find a breakthrough as the tourists ran out of options.

50th over: Australia 298-6 (McGrath 56, Molineux 2) Sutherland takes command by clobbering a boundary straight over the bowler Sharma’s head, brings up her second ODI ton with a six, then goes over the rope again as Deol drops a catch at long-on and the ball lands over the rope. The centurion is run out trying to edge closer to 300 with one ball remaining as Sophie Molineux skies a slog for two.

Annabel Sutherland sacrifices herself at the death when trying to run a second that was never likely. But credit to the gun batter for guiding her side to the brink of 300 then all but giving up her wicket. Sutherland finishes with her highest ODI score.

Annabel Sutherland brings up her second ODI ton in the best possible way with a monstrous six over midwicket. The milestone comes from 93 balls with three sixes and nine boundaries. The middle-order powerhouse builds on her history at the Waca!

49th over: Australia 278-5 (Sutherland 93, McGrath 55) McGrath notches a fourth ODI fifty and her first as Australia skipper with a chip to midwicket for two. Another couple from a sweep through square leg off the next ball bring up the 100-run partnership. One more milestone to come, perhaps.

48th over: Australia 271-5 (Sutherland 93, McGrath 48) McGrath and Sutherland are searching for boundaries now but Sharma’s variation in pace and length limits the batters to singles and twos even from a pair of aerial shots. Another costly mis-field on the deep midwicket rope undoes much of the hard work as Sutherland adds a four and moves to within reach of a second ODI ton.

47th over: Australia 261-5 (Sutherland 89, McGrath 42) Arundhati comes on for the last of 10 splendid overs. A mis-field from Sadhu at short fine leg allows Sutherland to pick up a boundary. That might well be 3.5 hours fielding in the heat starting to take its toll but that was harsh on the bowler. Arundhati almost adds another when McGrath swings and misses but the India pacer should be pleased with four top-order batters for 26.