Flintoff's impressive double strike leads Australia A to four-day victory

Australia A scored 212 in their first innings with Voll top-scoring with 71, while Mani took 5 wickets for 58 runs. In their second innings, Australia A made 260, led by Darke's unbeaten 105 and de Broughe's 58, with Mani taking 6 wickets for 92 runs. India A managed to score 184 and 243 in their two innings, with Chetry making 47 in the first innings. Knott and Flintoff claimed 3 wickets each in the match. Australia A won the match by 45 runs.

Two wickets in four balls from Tess Flintoff made the difference on the final day between Australia A and India A after the visitors had threatened to close down their target.

Raghvi Bist and Uma Chetry built a seventh-wicket stand of 79, the latter playing positively on the final morning, but just as the target of 289 was starting to loom into view, Flintoff changed the game. First she had Chetry splicing a pull into the leg side then got one through Bist to remove India A's last two main batting options.

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Three overs later Australia A had their ninth when Mannat Kashyap pulled Maitlan Brown to mid-on which all-but assured the home side of victory. However, a last-wicket stand of 24 made them work to wrap things up and it was captain Charlie Knott who claimed the final wicket when Sayali Satghare chipped a return catch.

"It was a bit nerve-racking at the start. They put on 60 runs or so without a wicket lost," Knott said. "But we knew once we got one wicket we'd get the rest so we just had to stick in there. They were going pretty aggressive so we knew something would come.

"Day one we felt a little bit nervous, not putting in a great performance with the bat, but the bowling group has managed to do an awesome job and also the second innings with the bat, our lower order really fought to get us to a defendable total."

Key performances for Australia A came from Georgia Voll's opening-day 71 then Kate Peterson's five-wicket haul earned a narrow lead. Maddy Darke scored an outstanding second-innings century while legspinner Grace Parsons put in a crucial all-round display with 70 runs across two innings at No. 10 and claiming two wickets in India's chase.

"We only won by 40-something runs in the end so without those [runs] we wouldn't have got over the line," Knott said.

The highly competitive four-day game concluded India A's tour which included three formats and they played better the longer the trip went on. Australia A won the T20s 3-0 and the one-dayers 2-1.