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India Women vs Australia Women: Another World Cup and another defeat for Team India at the hands of Australia. Team India has not been able to get success since registering a surprising victory against Australia in the semi-finals of the Women's World Cup 2017. This time Team India had this opportunity on its own soil. In the ICC Women's World Cup 2025 match played in Visakhapatnam, the Indian team was seen coming close to it but once again the world champion Australia proved that it is difficult to snatch this title from them at the moment. Australia defeated Team India by 3 wickets in the 13th match of the tournament. This result also had an impact on the points table but Team India did not suffer any loss in position at the moment.

In this match played on Sunday 12th October, the Indian team batted first and scored 330 runs. Smriti Mandhana scored 80 runs and Pratika Rawal scored 75 runs for Team India. This opening pair laid the foundation of a big score by making a partnership of 155 runs for the first wicket in 25 overs. Still, the Indian team could not play the full 50 overs and was all out in 48.5 overs. Annabel Sutherland took 5 wickets for Australia. After this, Australia won the match by losing 7 wickets in 49 overs on the basis of Alyssa Healy's stormy century of 142 runs.

Australia number-1, where is Team India?

This was Australia's third victory in this World Cup. In this way he has 7 points after 4 matches. Australia won 3 out of 4 matches, while its match against Sri Lanka was canceled due to rain and due to this the points had to be distributed. But after seven wins over India, it once again secured the first position in the points table. The defending champions pushed England (6) to second place. However, England has played only 3 matches so far and has won all three.

This was Team India's second consecutive defeat. Earlier, it had also lost against South Africa. But like the defeat of the previous match, this time's defeat also had no effect on its position in the points table and it is still in third place with 4 points from 4 matches. Although its net run rate has dropped significantly, it is still quite good compared to fourth-placed South Africa. But on Monday, 13 October, South Africa has a match against Bangladesh and with a win here, it can overtake India.

Pakistan remains at the bottom

Talking about the rest of the teams, apart from the top-4, the other four teams do not have more than 2 points. New Zealand, which is in fifth place, has 2 points from 3 matches. Bangladesh also has the same number of points from as many matches but due to the difference in net run rate, it is in sixth place. Sri Lanka has only one point from 3 matches, which it got due to the cancellation of the match against Australia. The team has lost 2 out of 3 matches and is in seventh place. Pakistan is the only team whose account has not been opened yet. Fatima Sana's team has lost all 3 matches and is at the last position among 8 teams with 0 points.