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The Australia tour ended with ups and downs for Team India's vice-captain and star opener Smriti Mandhana. After playing 2-3 good innings in the T20 and ODI series, Mandhana completely failed in the only Test match. In the ongoing Test match in Perth, Mandhana could not do anything amazing in both the innings and could not even score a total of 10 runs. The Indian opener, who scored only 4 runs on the first day of the match, was out in just 2 balls in the second innings on the second day.

On the first day of this day-night test match which started from March 6 at the WACA Stadium, the Indian team was bundled out for just 198 runs. In response, the Australian team scored 323 runs in its first innings and took a lead of 125 runs. Team India needed good batting in the second innings to end this lead and give a big target to Australia, but this time also the Indian top order looked defeated in front of the Australian bowling, which again started with the wicket of Mandhana.

On the second day of the match, Team India came out to bat in its second innings but Smriti Mandhana was out only on the second ball. Fast bowler Darcy Brown's ball took the edge of his bat and entered the stumps. Mandhana was out after scoring just 2 runs in 2 balls. In this way, only 6 runs came in his account in 15 balls in the match. In the first innings, she was out after scoring 4 runs in 13 balls.

SECOND BALL.

Darcie Brown gets Mandhana to chop on!#AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/JH1eB8UOcQ

— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) March 7, 2026

Mandhana had scored a Test century in Australia 5 years ago but this time she failed. But on this tour, Mandhana did not score even a single century. In 7 matches of all three formats, she batted in 8 innings, in which she could score only 234 runs including 2 half-centuries. His highest score was 82 runs, which came in the third T20 match.

Earlier, the first innings of the Australian team ended at 323 runs. For that, star all-rounder Annabel Sutherland again scored a century. 129 runs came from Sutherland's bat. This was her third century in 3 consecutive innings in Test cricket and she became the first woman Test cricketer to do so. Overall, this was his fourth Test century. Apart from Sutherland, veteran all-rounder Ellis Perry also scored 76 runs, due to which Australia got a strong lead.