The 2017–18 India women's Tri-Nation Series was a cricket tournament that took place in India in March 2018. It was a tri-nation series among Australia women, England women and the India women cricket teams. The matches were played as Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) fixtures, with the top two teams progressing to the final on 31 March 2018. Ahead of the WT20I fixtures, India A played two warm-up fixtures against England.
In the third match of the series, England's Jenny Gunn became the first player, male or female, to play in 100 Twenty20 International matches. In the fifth match, Australia's Meg Lanning became the first player for Australia, male or female, to score 2,000 runs in Twenty20 Internationals.
Australia Women and England Women qualified for the final, after India Women lost their first three matches of the series. In the final, Australia Women beat England Women by 57 runs to win the series. In the match, Australia Women scored 209 runs, the highest team total in a WT20I fixture. Australia Women also set a new record for the most fours scored in a Twenty20 International by any side, male or female, with 32 boundaries.
With nine wickets at an average of 12.33, the series leading wicket taker, Australian Megan Schutt, was named player of the series.
Squads Meg Lanning (c) Rachael Haynes (vc) Nicola Carey Ashleigh Gardner Alyssa Healy (wk) Jess Jonassen Delissa Kimmince Sophie Molineux Beth Mooney Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Naomi Stalenberg Elyse Villani Amanda-Jade Wellington Heather Knight (c) Tammy Beaumont Kate Cross Alice Davidson-Richards Sophie Ecclestone Tash Farrant Katie George Jenny Gunn Alex Hartley Danielle Hazell Amy Jones (wk) Anya Shrubsole Bryony Smith Nat Sciver Fran Wilson Danni Wyatt Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Smriti Mandhana (vc) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Ekta Bisht Rumeli Dhar Jhulan Goswami Veda Krishnamurthy Mona Meshram Shikha Pandey Anuja Patil Mithali Raj Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Pooja Vastrakar Poonam Yadav
Tour matches 1st 20-over match: India A Women v England Women
2nd 20-over match: India A Women v England Women
Points table
WT20I series 1st WT20I
2nd WT20I
3rd WT20I
4th WT20I
5th WT20I
6th WT20I
Final
Notes
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo