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Mithali Raj stars in India's big win

By Our Special Correspondent

MUMBAI, DEC. 16 . An excellent batting by Mithali Raj saw the Indian women cruise to a comfortable six-wicket win in the third of the five match series against Australia here on Thursday.

Australia's top three — Lisa Keightley, Belinda Clark and Karen Rolton, worked towards a good start, but a series of run outs saw the side slide from 120 for one to 147 all out. Thereafter the Indian women took charge of the match to post a morale-boosting win.

The scores:

Australia: Lisa Keightley (run out) 56, Belinda Clark c & b Neetu David 32, Karen Rolton st. Anju Jain b Neetu David 40, Lisa Sthalekar (run out) 2, Melaine Jones b Neetu David 1, Alex Blackwell (run out) 0, Cathryn Fitzpatrick lbw b Jhulan Goswami 3, Julie Hayes (run out) 0, Shelley Nitschke c Anju Jain b Amita Sharma 0, Leonie Coleman (not out) 2, Emma Twining lbw b Jhulan Goswami 0, Extras (lb-3, nb-2, w-6) 11, Total (in 47.1 overs) 147.

Fall of wickets: 1-63, 2-120, 3-128, 4-137, 5-137, 6-142, 7-142, 8-142, 9-146

India bowling: Amita 9-3-20-1, Jhulan 5.1-1-22-2, Anjum 3-0-12-0, Al-Khader 10-0-39-0, Neetu 10-2-27-3, Deepali 10-2-24-0.

India: Anju Jain lbw b Julie Hayes 12, Jaya Sharma c Leonie Coleman b Lisa Keightely 47, Anjum Chopra lbw b Karen Rolton 10, Mithali Raj (not out) 62, Mamta Maben c Lisa Keightley b Lisa Sthalekar 15, Arundathi Kirkire (not out) 0, Extras (nb-2, w-3) 5, Total (for four wkts. in 44.1 overs) 151.

Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-45, 3-105, 4-147.

Australia bowling: Cathryn 10-3-32-0, Emma 6.1-1-27-0, Julie 9-0-24-1, Karen 7-1-23-1, Lisa Sthalekar 6-3-19-1, Shelly 2-0-13-0, Lisa Keightley 4-1-13-1.

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