Live: Aussie top order wilts in searing heat against India at WACA

Ash Gardner comes to the crease to face Arundhati Reddy.

Out of curiosity, why did Reddy not play in either of the first two matches?

Reddy’s first ball to Garnder is outside off stump and left alone.

Gardner drives the to a fielder and then fends away to the leg-side.

Reddy bowls an inswinger which Gardern fends away to mid-wicket and takes a single.

The final ball of the over to Sutherland is short and punched to the off-side field for a dot ball.

Arundhati Reddy is carrying India on her back.

She comes around the wicket to Beth Mooney and gets the outside edge. Richa Ghosh takes a sharp catch.

BRILLIANT. Just great bowling.

It pitched on off stump, forced Mooney to play, and then shaped away to clip the outside edge.

Titas Sadhu bowls on Beth Mooney’s hip, and the Aussie works it away for a single.

Annabel Sutherland faces up and chops a ball into the ground for no run.

Sutherland gets off the mark with a backfoot cover drive which nets two runs.

Sutherland then plays a cut shot to the fielder at deep point for a single.

Beth Mooney is on strike and leaves a ball well outside off stump.

WIDE. Titas digs in a short ball which sails over Mooney’s head.

Mooney works the final ball of the over to forward point for a single. 

Annabel Sutherland walks out to the middle to face the music being played by Arundhati Reddy.

Reddy bowls four dot balls to Sutherland, who just wants to get out of this over.

Australia is facing adversity at 3/72.

Arundhati Reddy does it again.

Ellyse Perry misses a drive to a ball from Reddy who produces a peach of a ball.

It was bowled on a good length, pitched on off stump. It looked like it would swing in, but it seamed away and clips the top of off.

Perry gone for 4 off 14.

Arundhati Reddy continues, bowling to Ellyse Perry.

The first ball is on the pads and Perry hits through mid-wicket and gets two after the fielders we unable to collect it.

FOUR. That is a pressure-relieving boundary. Titas Sadhu came around the wicket to the left-handed Beth Mooney. Mooney crunches a lovely cover drive through the infield to the boundary rope.

Mooney then fends into the off-side and Australia takes a quick single.

BEATEN. Ellyse Perry is on-strike and the Australian misses a drive to a ball which shaped away from her.

BEATEN. Perry skips down the wicket and again is beaten on the outside edge. She seems out of sorts the champion. She is 1 off 11 balls.

Perry then gets a ball off her pads to mid-wicket and gets a single.

Mooney will face the final ball of the over.

Mooney fends into the leg-side for no run.

Arundhati Reddy is back following her brilliant second over.

Reddy’s first ball to Ellyse Perry hits the pads, but it was going down leg-stump.

Perry then drives, but straight to Reddy.

BEATEN. Reddy beats the outside edge of Perry. This is great bowling.

Perry goes on the backfoot and fends away to mid-wicket.

Perry plays a nice drive, but mid-on moves well to deny the chance of a run.

Another dot ball from Reddy to complete the maiden over.

Arundhati Reddy has changed the momentum of this inning. Great bowling.

Titas Sadhu continues, bowling to a pair of new batters.

WIDE. Titas’s first ball to Beth Mooney goes down the leg-side for a wide.

Mooney then works a ball off her hip to deep square for two runs.

Titas then bowls five consecutive dot balls.

That is the end of the 12th over.

Beth Mooney comes to the crease, joining Ellyse Perry.

Mooney guides her first ball to third for a single.

Perry fends the final ball of Arundhati Reddy’s over.

Well done Reddy.

India’s bowlers looked lacklustre to start this game, but Reddy has changed the whole complexion of this innings.

GONE.

Arundhati Reddy has dismissed both openers in this over.

She bowls wide and Phoebe Litchfield plays a cut shot.

India goes up for caught behind, and the umpire turned it down.

Wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh immediately reviews. She didn’t even consult her captain before doing that.

AND LITCHFIELD IS WALKING.

That lets you know she hit it.

Snicko shows there is a noise and she is out.

Arundhati Reddy comes in and will bowl to Ellyse Perry.

There is a big appeal for LBW. Not out. Going down leg-side. Didn’t matter anyway, it was a no-ball.

Perry has a free-hit. It’s in the air and dropped by mid-on. It would not have been a catch, but the drop allows Perry to take a single and get off the mark.

Phoebe Litchfield is on strike as Reddy comes around the wicket.

Wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh comes up to the stumps and Litchfield plays and misses.

Ellyse Perry comes to the crease in her 150th ODI for Australia.

She is the first Australian to reach 150 ODIs and the eighth all time.

Arundhati Reddy has taken a wicket with the first ball of her second over.

Reddy bowled terrifically in her first over.

She bowls to Georgia Voll and get a ball to swing in.

Voll went for a drive, but the ball went between bat and body and cannoned into the stumps.

Reddy pumps her fist. Great bowling.

Titas Sadhu, right-arm pace, comes around the wicket to Phoebe Litchfield.

WIDE. A loose ball goes down the leg-side. Another wide conceded by India’s bowlers.

Titas gets her line and length right for the next three balls, forcing Litchfield just to fend away.

Titas bowls short and cramps Litchfield for room, again drawing a defensive shot.

Litchfield again fends on the front foot as Titas continue to bowl on the good length, just outside off stump.

Another dot ball ends the over. Just the wide off it.

That is the end of 10 overs and the end of the powerplay. Australia is 0/58.

Phoebe Litchfield and Georgia Voll have laid a nice platform for the Aussies.

Arundhati Reddy, right-arm pace, comes around the wicket to the left-handed Phoebe Litchfield.

EDGE. FOUR. Reddy is on the money from ball one. She gets the edge but the ball goes between keeper and first slip. Richa Ghosh, the wicketkeeper was wrong-footed and was never a hope of taking that chance.

Litchfield then comes down the wicket but misses the ball.

Ghosh has come up to the wicket, keeping Litchfield in her crease.

Reddy has a play-and-miss, then defends.

Litchfield plays a cover drive for a single, with the fielder at deep point cutting off the ball.

Reddy then bowls a nice inswing ball to Georgia Voll which hits the pads. India appealed, but that ball was going to miss the leg stump.

A nice over from Reddy comes to an end.

Titas Sadhu continues to Georgia Voll, and the Australian gets an inside edge onto her pads for no run.

FOUR. A loose delivery from Sadhu on the pads and Voll whips it to mid-wicket for a boundary.

That is the 50-run partnership for Phoebe Litchfield and Georgia Voll.

Voll then drives and takes a single. It is fumbled by a diving mid-off. Probably did not affect the single but may have stopped another boundary.

Litchfield takes a quick single, but India appeals for a run-out after a direct hit at the striker’s end. Georgia Voll was home, but that is a nice piece of fielding.

Voll does not time a cut shot which is fielded at cover to end the over.

Renuka Singh Thakur comes in for her fourth over.

Georgia Voll cuts the first ball of the over and takes a single after a fumble from the point fielder.

Phoebe Litchfield then punches a ball to deep cover and runs a single.

Voll is back on strike and she plays a controlled pull shot along the ground for a single.

WIDE. Thakur was trying to slide a ball across the left-hander Litchfield, but she got it wrong and it is called a wide by the umpire.

Thakur chooses to come around the wicket to the left-hander and bowls a tidy line which Litchfield can only defend.

FOUR. Litchfield takes a step down the wicket and hits the ball over mid-off for four runs.

Wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh comes up to the stumps, and Litchfield then plays a ramp shot. It goes over the keeper’s head and is just stopped before the rope. Two runs to Litchfield and Australia.

Australia are 0/46 after seven overs.

Titas Sadhu is back in the India team, and she is into the attack.

WIDE. Sadhu starts with a wide down the leg-side. Let’s call that a warm-up.

Sadhu follows up with a shorter ball which Georgia Voll chooses to fend away.

Voll then drives the next two deliveries but cannot get the ball past mid-on.

A shorter ball on Voll’s hip is pulled away to deep backward square leg for a single.

CLOSE CALL. Phoebe Litchfield is on strike and leave a ball just outside off stump. There are hands on head from the Indians. They think the ball was close to the stumps. It was a very tight leave.

FOUR. Litchfield dances down the wicket and whacks over cover and the ball races to the boundary.