India clinch Super Over to hand Australia first loss of 2022
Mandhana, Ghosh helped India tie in regular time after Australia rode on the Mooney-McGrath stand

Richa Ghosh and Smriti Mandhana helped India score 20 in the Super Over • BCCI
India won the Super Over
As much as the final total might suggest, Mooney didn't have the best of starts. Her timing was off initially as she managed only 6 off nine balls in the powerplay. Healy, though, made up for her slowness. She cracked a four in the first over, bowled by Renuka, then got two in the second over and two more in the third. Even though she fell for 25 off 15, Healy made sure Australia had just the right kind of start.
Two batters so different in their ways of scoring, yet so effective. McGrath, the enforcer, who loves going at the ball hard; Mooney, the accumulator, who seems to have a map of the field printed in her brain. Coming together at the fall of Healy's wicket with the score 29, they stitched together Australia's highest stand in T20Is.
Mandhana started the chase in the fifth gear, slamming Gardner for a four in the first over before thumping Kim Garth for three fours in the second. She got excellent support from Shafali as India plundered 55 runs in the powerplay. The middle overs have been India's pain point in recent times, but Mandhana ensured the equation never got out of hand. India scored 78 runs between overs 7 to 15, with the opener doing the bulk of the scoring. She wasn't done there. India needed her in the Super Over too, and she delivered, again.
There are so many things one can achieve at the age of 19. Tonking a fast bowler for a straight six second ball in a high-pressure chase with the required rate in excess of ten only a few can manage. India needed 46 to win off 25 balls when Ghosh walked out to bat. Harmanpreet had just been dismissed for 21, and soon Mandhana departed too. However, the teenager kept her composure. She whacked the experienced Gardner for two more sixes in the 18th over to ease the pressure, ran well in the final over before walking out in the Super Over to start off with another maximum. Age, it's just a number.
Ashish Pant is a sub-editor with ESPNcricinfo