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

Alyssa Healy captained Australia to a 10-wicket victory against India in her final match before retirement at the one-off day-night Test in Perth.

The 35-year-old was lofted onto the shoulders of her team-mates after openers Phoebe Litchfield and Georgia Voll reached a fourth-innings target of 25 inside five overs at the Waca.

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

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

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

Healy, who has usually been Australia’s wicketkeeper though Beth Mooney took the gloves in this Test, finishes her 299-match international career with 7,333 runs and 276 dismissals to her name in all formats of the game.

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

This crushing win ensured Australia won the multi-format series 12-4.

Defeat in the one-off Test, coming after a 2-1 T20 series victory and a 3-0 loss in the ODIs, ends a nine-match winning run in red-ball cricket for India, with their last defeat against the same opponents in Adelaide in February 2006.