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Australia v India: second women’s one-day cricket international – live

  • Updates from the match at Bellerive Oval in Hobart

  • Play starts at 2.50pm AEDT/9.20am IST

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India openers Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal make their way to the middle at Bellerive Oval and will be hoping for a much better start than they had in Brisbane. Megan Schutt has the ball in hand, Alyssa Healy is standing back from the stumps and we’re about to get under way in Hobart …

Australia all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner is not getting carried away with the emphatic victory over India in the first ODI on Tuesday, especially with the multi-format series tied at 4-4 with eight points still up for grabs. Gardner spoke yesterday during the build up to the second ODI in Hobart

We have played some good cricket along the way and have played some not-so good cricket in patches as well. So being able for us to string that together, I felt like that last game was kind of a perfect performance. I thought the bowlers really set the tone and then we chased down that total pretty convincingly.

What we did really well was just focus on ourselves and make sure to keep our gameplan really simple – adapt when it was necessary. And that’s obviously what we’re going to have to do tomorrow as well, making sure we’re adapting to whatever is in front of us. The other day, bowling first was probably what we wanted to do and it [batting] was pretty challenging early, in both innings those first 10 overs were going to be the most challenging. We know they [India] want to take the game on … just being able to adapt, full stop, is our mode going forward.

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