Beth Mooney's 138 guides Australia to their joint-highest ODI total

47.5 overs Australia 412 (Mooney 138, Voll 81, Perry 68, Reddy 3-86) vs India

One of the key focal points for India, under head coach Amol Muzumdar, has been their fielding. They seemed to have turned a page with a clinical show on the tour of England. But following four dropped catches in the opening game, India grassed three more in the third ODI against Australia, to go with their numerous misfields. India's lapses contributed to Australia posting 412 - equalling their highest total in women's ODIs - in the series-decider in Delhi. It was the seventh time a women's team had breached the 400-run mark in the format.

Beth Mooney turbo-charged the innings with a 75-ball 138. She added 106 from 72 balls with Ellyse Perry, and then 82 off 46 with Ashleigh Gardner, to set the platform for Australia to post the highest team total in women's ODIs against India. Opener Georgia Voll and allrounder Perry also struck half-centuries, never offering India any respite.

The tone was set early by captain Alyssa Healy, who wanted India to "run around in the heat" and opted to bat. She attacked India's new ball bowlers and Australia managed to hit two fours in each of the first five overs. Kranti Goud then dismissed her for the third time in three games, but Voll then kept attacking, with Perry offering stability during her fluent innings.

Voll was given two lives - first, when Richa Ghosh was wrongfooted and couldn't hang on to the outside edge in the seventh over, and then, twice by Radha Yadav. The latter only got her fingertips to a powerful swipe at square leg, before misjudging the pace of Voll's flick and being late on the jump at midwicket. That was enough for Voll to get to her first half-century in ODIs - she has a century against India from earlier this year.

After she fell, caught by substitute Uma Chetry at short fine leg after getting a top edge on the sweep, Mooney came in and never let the momentum shift. She found gaps at will, used the crease well to access empty parts of the field, and got to her fourth ODI century in just 57 balls. It was the joint second-fastest century in women's ODIs, alongside Karen Rolton's 57-ball effort against South Africa in 2000, and only behind Meg Lanning's 45-ball waltz in 2012 against New Zealand.

While Australia flexed their batting muscle, India would take solace from the fact that they triggered a collapse of 6 for 34 to restrict the opposition to a total that could have been much more. As per ESPNcricinfo logs, India's misfields and dropped chances cost them 26 from 11 balls.

India have never won a bilateral series against Australia, and at the halfway stage of the decider, it looks likely to stay that way.