Alyssa Healy: Australia thrashes India by 10 wickets in the final match of the captain’s career

Alyssa Healy led Australia to a 10-wicket win over India in her final match before retiring in the one-off day-night Test in Perth.

The 35-year-old was lifted on the shoulders of her teammates after openers Phoebe Litchfield and Georgia Foale reached the fourth-round target of 25 inside five overs at the WACA.

India resumed the match with a score of 105-6 and were bowled out in the first hour of the third day in Perth, with spinners Ash Gardner and Alana King taking the last wicket to dismiss the tourists for 149.

Gardner ended a 50-run partnership between Pratika Rawal and Sneh Rana, bowling 30 runs, while Healy caught Kashvi Gautam off King for a four-ball duck.

Sayali Satgari was caught by Georgia Fall, before opener Rawal, who top-scored with 63, was the last wicket to fall, caught by Annabelle Sutherland off Gardner.

Healy, who was usually the wicket-keeper for Australia although Beth Mooney took the gloves in this Test, finished her 299-match international career with 7,333 runs and 276 dismissals to her name in all forms of the game.

She led Australia to a historic 16-0 whitewash in the Ashes in 2025, and has won the World Cup twice – hitting a top individual score of 170 in the World Cup final against England in 2022 – and the T20 World Cup on six occasions.

This landslide victory ensured Australia won the multi-format series 12-4.

The one-off Test defeat, which comes after a 2-1 T20 series win and a 3-0 loss in the ODIs, ended a nine-match winning streak in red-hot cricket for India, with their last defeat to the same opponents in Adelaide in February 2006.