WATCH: India's Renuka Singh Dismisses Australian Skipper Alyssa Healy With A Flying Stunner From Sneh Rana

Riding off the monumental Test win against Australia earlier last week, the Indian women’s team carried on the same momentum into the ODI series against Australia.

As the Indians opened the batting, the Women In Blue set up a formidable target of 283 runs, with the help of a spectacular 84 from youngster Jemimah Rodrigues and a sensational lower-order knock of 62* from pacer Pooja Vastrekar.

With Australia gunning to set the tone off the first ball, skipper Alyssa Healy took to the pitch to do the same. But, alas India’s Renuka Singh had other plans.

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Off just the third ball of the first over of Australia’s innings, Renuka bowled an enticing tempter just outside off stump which had Healy swing hard at and ended up edging it.

What seemed to be travelling away to the boundary was snatched out of thin air by India’s Sneh Rana, who caught a blinder at short third and dismissed the Aussie skipper for a duck to get India Women off to a stellar start in their bid to defend their target.

India have been in top form winning their last three contests two Tests and one T20I after losing the first two T20Is to England and concede the three-match series in this long home season.

But with only four wins in 21 ODIs and 17 defeats at home, India have not beaten Australia in any of their last seven matches playing at home since February 2007.

In fact, the last time India and Australia played ODI cricket at the Wankhede Stadium, the home team suffered heavy defeats in March 2012, losing by 221 runs and five wickets in the last two ODIs of the three-match series.

India had lost the opening ODI heavily at Ahmedabad by 30 runs and were eventually whitewashed.

However, India have a new leadership pair of skipper Harmanpreet and coach Amol Majumdar and it will be a perfect opportunity to bolster their preparations for the ODI World Cup in 2025. These games will also bring a chance to improve a recent poor record in 50-overs cricket against this opponent.