AUS Women in WI 2025/26, WI-W vs AUS-W 1st ODI Match Report, March 27, 2026

Australia 341 (Litchfield 77, Carey 49, Molineux 49, Perry 44, Fletcher 3-83) beat West Indies 238 for 8 (Taylor 105*, Garth 3-37) by 103 runs

After sweeping the three-game T20I series, the tourists then restricted the West Indies to 238 for 8 from their 50 overs in the first of three one-dayers.

With the result beyond doubt, the interest late in the game was whether Taylor could score her first one-day ton against Australia.

She made 105 not out from 129 balls, bringing up the century with a boundary off Georgia Wareham in the 47th over. Her knock, featuring 10 fours and a six, was Taylor’s eighth one-day international century and her first since 2021.

But her nervous 90s nearly ended in disaster – she went for a quick single on 91 and Taylor would have been run out had Wareham’s throw at the stumps been accurate.

Despite Taylor’s century, Wareham was named player of the match for her 42 from 21 balls batting at No. 7, with five fours and two sixes.

Wareham also took 1 for 39 from 10 overs, while Kim Garth removed the openers on the way to 3 for 37 from her 10.

At 166 for 1 in the 24th over, Australia might have had ambitions of even greater total but they lost 3 for 20 in six overs including Litchfield who was caught at long-off. Nicola Carey and captain Sophie Molineux, who again played as a specialist batter and went in at No. 4, rebuilt the innings with a stand of 91 although Molineux struggled for fluency.

Carey fell one run short of a maiden ODI half-century when she missed a reverse sweep against Afy Fletcher

It was a recast Australian one-day team, with five changes from the XI that beat India at the start of this month in Hobart.

Beth Mooney’s late withdrawal with quad tightness meant Tahlia Wilson was brought in for her ODI debut. Wilson impressed with the gloves, with the highlight her sharp stumping of Aaliyah Alleyne off Garth.

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