Alyssa Healy does not bat for one last time as Australia cruise to 10-wicket win in Test against India

Australia have cruised to a comfortable 10-wicket win in their day-night Test match against India at the WACA Ground — but there was no fairytale farewell for their retiring legend.

Josh Kempton
The West Australian
Alyssa Healy’s career has ended with a victory in Perth.
Alyssa Healy’s career has ended with a victory in Perth. Credit: Paul Kane/Getty Images

Australia have cruised to a comfortable 10-wicket win in their day-night Test match against India at the WACA Ground — but there was no fairytale farewell for retiring legend Alyssa Healy.

The tourists were able to ensure the contest reached a fourth innings by adding another 44 runs at the beginning of the third day, being bowled out for 149 to set a modest victory target of 25.

Despite all-rounder Annabel Sutherland saying she had no doubt the captain would receive plenty of encouragement to promote herself up the order, Healy did not appear again, with openers Georgia Voll (16 not out) and Phoebe Litchfield (11 not out) polishing off the required runs inside five overs.

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After her side completed the victory, Healy was chaired to a tribute painted on the WACA surface in her honour by long-time teammates Ellyse Perry and Ash Gardner.

Healy joked she now “might turn into that really bitter ex-player who tells them how to do stuff” and she did not open because she “wanted to protect her Test average of 20”.

“Thanks to this group of amazing people for making the last few weeks incredibly special for me,”

“I’ve got so many great memories, not just on the field, but off the field with these amazing people and I look forward to creating a few more over the next few days”.

Alyssa Healy gives Australia one final message.
Alyssa Healy gives Australia one final message. Credit: Paul Kane/Getty Images

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Sutherland claimed player of the match honours for her chanceless 129 with the bat and six wickets with the ball and was also named player of the series.

The result secured a comprehensive 12-4 win in the multi-format series for Australia, who recovered from a 2-1 loss in the T20 leg by producing a clean sweep of the three One-Day Internationals and claiming a pink-ball victory in Perth.

A partnership between India’s debutant No.3 Pratika Rawal and Sneh Rana which stopped Australia in their tracks late on the second night continued into the morning.

In the early exchanges, the No.3 cut Alana King for a single to bring up a first Test half-century and the off-spinner swept the same bowler to the boundary to ensure the hosts would be required to bat again.

Rana had two lives in her innings, with Sutherland failing to cling on to a tough one-handed chance at second slip on 19 and Gardner extracting some extra bounce denying Beth Mooney a chance to stump her on 28.

But Gardner had her revenge with the very next delivery, producing a picture-perfect off-spinner which bowled her opposite number for 30.

King was below her best in the three overs she sent down on the first day before a battle with cramp denied her the chance to atone later but the WA star produced a leg-spinning clinic on day three.

Alana King bowled brilliantly on day three.
Alana King bowled brilliantly on day three. Credit: Paul Kane/Getty Images

Having beat the bat repeatedly throughout the first hour, she finally had some reward when Kashvee Gautam edged her to Healy at slip to depart without scoring and some additional lift she generated induced Sayali Satghare (three) to offer a catching chance to Voll at silly point.

Rawal was India’s last batter to fall for a fluent 63, courtesy of a diving catch by Sutherland at fine-leg off the bowling of Gardner.

Hopes Healy would walk to the crease one more time at No.4 were bolstered when Voll was adjudged lbw to impressive debutant fast bowler Satghare before scoring, but the decision was overturned on review due to ball-tracking showing the delivery would have missed leg stump.

Litchfield offered a catching chance on nine but India’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur could not hold on to a difficult opportunity running back at mid-off in the over before Voll ended the contest with three consecutive boundaries.

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