India Women vs Australia Head-to-Head: ODI, T20I & Test
By CricketTaken EditorialPublished Cricket in India8 min read
Australia lead India in all three formats and have done so for nearly fifty years. In one-day internationals the record stands at 64 matches, India 12 and Australia 52; in Twenty20 internationals 39 matches, India 9 and Australia 28, with one tie India won on a super over; in Tests 12 matches, one India win, five Australia wins and six draws.
Those are the numbers, and taken alone they describe a fixture that is not really a rivalry. What they miss is that two of India's twelve one-day wins are the two most significant results in the history of Indian women's cricket, and both came against Australia in a World Cup knockout: Derby in July 2017, and Navi Mumbai in October 2025.
The second of those ended a run in which Australia had not lost a World Cup match for more than a decade, and it did so by chasing 339, the highest successful pursuit in women's one-day international cricket. India went on to win the tournament. That is what makes this fixture worth a page rather than a scoreline — the Australian dominance is real and unbroken across the aggregate, and India have twice removed it at the only moment that mattered.
The record across formats
| Format | Matches | India won | Australia won | Drawn / tied | First played |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 drawn | 1977 |
| ODI | 64 | 12 | 52 | — | 1978 |
| T20I | 39 | 9 | 28 | 1 tie, 1 no result | 2008 |
India's Test win came at Mumbai in December 2023, by eight wickets, their first over Australia in the format. Their one-day win rate against Australia is under twenty per cent; against every other side it is comfortably above half.
Navi Mumbai, 30 October 2025
The semi-final of the 2025 World Cup at the DY Patil Stadium is the match the fixture now turns on. Australia batted and made 338, Phoebe Litchfield reaching a maiden World Cup hundred.
India chased it. Jemimah Rodrigues made 127 from 134 balls, reaching her hundred from 115, and Harmanpreet Kaur made 89 alongside her; India finished on 341 for 5 with nine balls to spare. It is the highest successful chase in women's one-day international cricket, and it beat the previous mark — Australia's 331 against India at Visakhapatnam eighteen days earlier in the same tournament.
The result put India into a third World Cup final, after 2005 and 2017, and ended an Australian unbeaten run in the competition stretching back years. India then beat South Africa in the final at the same ground. The tournament is covered in more depth on the India women's cricket history guide.
Derby, 20 July 2017
The earlier of the two knockout wins, and for a decade the single most-replayed innings in Indian women's cricket. The semi-final at the County Ground was reduced to 42 overs a side by rain. Harmanpreet Kaur came in at 35 for 2 and made 171 not out from 115 balls, with twenty fours and seven sixes, taking her first fifty from 64 balls, the second from 26 and the third from 17.
India made 281 for 4 and bowled Australia out for 245 to win by 36 runs. Australia had won the previous three World Cups. India lost the final to England at Lord's, but the semi-final is generally taken as the point at which the domestic audience for the women's game in India changed scale — and it is the direct ancestor of the crowd that filled the DY Patil Stadium eight years later.
The one-day ledger since 2016
The twenty-three matches from February 2016 onwards have complete ball-by-ball records, and they show India winning five: Hobart in 2016, Derby in 2017, the third match at Mackay in 2021, the second at New Chandigarh in 2025, and the semi-final. Australia won the other eighteen.
The margins tell a more useful story than the count. Australia's wins include a 190-run victory at Mumbai in January 2024, a 185-run win at Hobart in March 2026 and a 122-run win at Brisbane; India's most recent series in Australia, in February and March 2026, was lost 3-0 with those margins widening across it. But 2025 produced a 43-run defeat at Delhi in which Australia made 412 and India replied with 369 — the highest aggregate the fixture has generated.
| Player | Side | ODI runs since 2016 | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smriti Mandhana | India | 955 | 125 |
| Beth Mooney | Australia | 905 | 138 |
| Ellyse Perry | Australia | 816 | 105 |
| Alyssa Healy | Australia | 789 | 158 |
| Harmanpreet Kaur | India | 706 | 171* |
| Phoebe Litchfield | Australia | 753 | 119 |
Smriti Mandhana leads the fixture on runs in the period, which is the one individual category India top. Her aggregate against every opponent is on the India women's most runs leaderboard. Below her the list is Australian for four places, and Litchfield's 753 from twelve matches is the highest rate of accumulation of anyone on it.
| Bowler | Side | ODI wickets since 2016 | Best |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annabel Sutherland | Australia | 27 | 5 |
| Ashleigh Gardner | Australia | 26 | 5 |
| Deepti Sharma | India | 25 | 5 |
| Megan Schutt | Australia | 25 | 5 |
| Alana King | Australia | 18 | 4 |
Deepti Sharma is the only India bowler in the group, and her twenty-five wickets have come across twenty-one matches — more appearances than any of the Australians above her. That gap in strike rate, rather than the batting, is the most consistent structural difference between the two sides across the decade.
Twenty20 internationals
The Twenty20 record is closer than the one-day record and has been getting closer. India have won seven of the thirty-one matches since 2010 for which complete records exist, tied one — at Navi Mumbai in December 2022, decided by a super over India won — and lost twenty-two.
The pattern of India's wins is instructive. Three came at World Cups: Guyana in 2018, where India won by 48 runs, and Sydney in 2020, where they defended 132 and won by 17. Two came in the series in Australia in February 2026, at Sydney and Adelaide, in a three-match series India lost 2-1 but in which they twice bowled Australia out or held them below 160.
The most recent meeting was at Lord's on 28 June 2026, in the group stage of the T20 World Cup. India made 170 for 4 and Australia chased it in nineteen overs — the highest successful pursuit recorded at a Women's T20 World Cup. Australia finished the group unbeaten.
| Player | Side | T20I runs | Matches | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beth Mooney | Australia | 951 | 28 | 89 |
| Smriti Mandhana | India | 888 | 29 | 83 |
| Harmanpreet Kaur | India | 740 | 29 | 65 |
| Ashleigh Gardner | Australia | 591 | 27 | 93 |
| Shafali Verma | India | 527 | 24 | 64 |
Deepti Sharma has taken thirty-one Twenty20 international wickets in the fixture, more than anyone on either side; Ashleigh Gardner has twenty-seven. Neither side has produced a hundred against the other in the format; the India women's most centuries list is built almost entirely from other opponents.
Tests: one win in twelve
Twelve Tests since 1977, six of them drawn, which is what happens when a format is played once every few years without a series structure around it. India's win came at the DY Patil Stadium in December 2023: Australia made 219, India replied with 406, and India chased 75 to win by eight wickets. Sneh Rana took the award.
The most recent was at Perth in March 2026, and it went the other way — India made 198 and 149, Australia 323, and won by ten wickets with Annabel Sutherland taking the award. The one before, at Carrara in 2021, was a draw in which India made 377 for 8 and Smriti Mandhana took the individual award.
Three Tests in five years is more than the format had in the preceding fifteen, and both boards have signalled they intend to keep scheduling them. The other long-standing fixture in the format is with England, whose record is on the India women versus England page. On that trajectory the twelve-match sample will stop being the reason the record looks the way it does.
What the fixture is now
Two things are true at once and the page would be dishonest to pick one. Australia have won 85 of the 115 matches across the three formats and have lost only twenty-two; on any aggregate measure the gap is large and has not closed. And India have beaten them in two World Cup knockouts, hold the record for the highest chase in the women's fifty-over game because of one of them, and won the 2025 World Cup on the back of it.
The Australian side that lost at Navi Mumbai still beat India 3-0 in a one-day series four months later and chased 171 at Lord's four months after that. The Indian side that lost those matches is the reigning world champion. Both statements describe August 2026.
For the wider context, the women's Premier League guide covers the domestic competition that has changed how Indian players are paid and prepared, and the India women's most wickets and India women's highest individual scores leaderboards give the career figures behind the names here. The game's structure in the country is on the cricket in India hub.
Sources and method
The all-format record table — matches, wins, losses, draws and first-played dates — is taken from the published record-by-opponent tables for the India women's side and is current to the end of August 2026.
Every match-level figure in the one-day and Twenty20 sections, and both sets of aggregate tables, is computed from the complete ball-by-ball record of those matches. That record begins in February 2016 for the one-day fixture and May 2010 for the Twenty20 fixture, and the aggregates are labelled with that window rather than presented as career totals: Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami and their Australian contemporaries all played matches in this fixture before those cut-offs, and are under-counted here as a result.
The Derby and Navi Mumbai matches, the Test results and the records claimed for the two chases are verified against the scorecards and tournament records for those games. Bowling figures exclude run-outs. Bowling figures count wides and no-balls against the bowler and leave byes and leg byes out.