Courtesy-India Today
During the tour of Australia in September, the Indian Women’s cricket team will play a Test match for the first time in years. The Test match will be part of a bilateral series that will also have a white-ball component, the specifics of which are yet to be confirmed by Cricket Australia or the BCCI.
The Test in September will be India’s first in Australia since the 2006 Adelaide Test. Australia and India have played nine Tests in all, with Australia winning four and drawing the remaining five. The teams initially collided in a Test match in Perth in 1977, then played four Tests in India in 1984, a three-Test series in Australia in 1990-91, and finally the game in Adelaide in 2006.
For the first time since 2014, India, headed by Mithali Raj, will play two Tests. India’s first Test match since beating South Africa in Mysore in November 2014 will take place in Bristol on June 16. The fact that India will travel to Australia in September was not confirmed by either the CA or the BCCI but was disclosed in a recent interview by Australian fast bowler Megan Schutt. Australia’s next mission, according to Schutt, will be against India at home in mid-September, with a preliminary camp in Darwin.
The tour was initially planned for January of this year, consisting of three ODIs, but a post on the CA website in December 2020 stated that the trip will be rescheduled for the 2021-22 season and will also include three T20Is.
Tests for India Women by year:
2014: 2
2015: 0
2016: 0
2017: 0
2018: 0
2019: 0
2020: 0
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