Phoebe Litchfield: Australian women’s cricket team is currently on India tour, the last match of the three-match ODI series is being played today on January 2 at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Australian captain Alyssa Healy won the toss and decided to bat first. The team played brilliantly and put 338 runs on the board at the loss of 7 wickets.

Australian young batsman Phoebe Litchfield played a brilliant inning of 119 runs in the third ODI against India. Phoebe Litchfield has made many big records in her name with this innings.

Take a look at Phoebe Litchfield’s records

Alyssa Healy and Phoebe Litchfield gave a great start to Australia, who came to bat first against India. There was a strong partnership of 189 runs between the two. Alyssa Healy scored 82 runs in 85 balls and lost her wicket to Pooja Vastrakar in the 29th over. After which Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney and Tahila McGrath returned to the pavilion cheaply.

Phoebe Litchfield continued her brilliant game and completed her century. Phoebe Litchfield played an inning of 119 runs in 125 balls with the help of 16 fours and one six. Earlier, in the last two ODI matches, Phoebe had played brilliant half-centuries of 78 and 63 runs.

Today, maintaining her brilliant game, this 20 year old player scored her second ODI century. Phoebe Litchfield has now become the first female batsman to score more than 50 thrice in the three-match ODI series against India.

In the ODI series against India, Phoebe Litchfield has scored 260 runs in three matches at an average of 86.66. Any player scored more runs than him in the three-match ODI series in India. By doing this, Phoebe has broken the long-standing record of great England player Claire Taylor, who had scored 225 runs in 2006.

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Phoebe has created another record by scoring the most runs by an Australian woman. Phoebe broke Mag Lanning’s record of 246 runs which he had made against New Zealand in 2016. Litchfield is the second Australian woman player to score a century at the Wankhede in the ICC ODI World Cup in 2013, after Mag Lanning. Apart from this, Phoebe is also the seventh female player in India to score an ODI century.