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In the third and final Twenty20 match, Australia A easily defeated India A with Tahlia McGrath’s 22-ball 51*, completing a 3-0 series rout. Tayla Vlaeminck’s first-over strike was followed by two wickets apiece from Grace Parsons, Maitlan Brown, and Nicola Hancock, which set up Australia A’s easy victory.
After being benched in the second Twenty20 match, Vlaeminck immediately contributed to the Australia A team. The 25-year-old fast bowler finished with impressive 4-0-6-1 stats. On the second ball of the encounter, she bowled Shubha Satheesh for a duck.
The remainder of India The intermediate and top orders in A did not fare much better. Shweta Sehrawat laboured to make 15 off 28, Tanuja Kanwar dropped for a 10-ball 7, and Priya Punia hit 11 off 18.
India A were struggling at 47 for 5 when Sajeevan Sajana departed for 10, with Parsons taking two wickets in the 13th over. However, a 57-run partnership between captain Minnu Mani and Kiran Navgire saw the team through the first 20 overs.
After the first Twenty20 match, Brown, who had also returned to the playing XI, dismissed Mani after she struck 22 off 23, but Navgire was the more aggressive player, hitting 38 off 20.
Wilson started the chase with two boundaries off Meghna Singh in the opening over. She then took on Kanwar, hitting her for two fours and a six, following a couple of calm overs.
In the fifth over, Shabnam Shakil removed Katie Mack, and in the eighth over, Mannat Kashyap stopped Wilson’s advance, but McGrath kept Australia A’s momentum going. She began hitting boundaries in bunches at the beginning of the tenth over, going after Kanwar, Meghna, and Kashyap. Even Charli Knott’s dismissal in the 13th over did not derail the hosts thanks to her forceful knock.
McGrath hit three consecutive boundaries off Shabnam in the 14th over to finish the job and bring up a half-century, to follow up on her unbeaten 47 from the last game. McGrath hammered eight fours and two sixes.