The time has come to decide the champion of the T20 Cricket World Cup 2026 being played in India. The champion team will be crowned with the final on Sunday, March 8. Everyone's eyes are on this final. But apart from this World Cup, a tough series is also being played in Australia, in which the women's teams of Australia and India are clashing. After the T20 and ODI series, a test match is being played between the two, in which the host team has dominated. The team's star all-rounder Annabel Sutherland has played a big role in this, who created history by scoring a century on the second day of the match.

From March 6 in Perth One-off test between India and Australia The match started. On the very first day of the match, Australian bowlers had defeated Team India in the first innings and bundled out them for just 198 runs. In this, Sutherland played a big role by taking maximum 4 wickets. After this, when the Australian team came out to bat, it also lost 3 wickets for only 58 runs. At such a time, Ellis Perry and Sutherland together handled the innings. Both of them took this partnership forward on the second day also and made a partnership of 128 runs.

Sutherland scored a hat-trick of centuries

On the second day, Team India stopped Perry with a century but it proved impossible for them to stop Sutherland, who was consistently performing brilliantly in this format. This right-handed batsman finally completed her century and created history. This was Sutherland's third consecutive century and fourth overall in Test cricket. She became the first batsman in the history of women's Test cricket to score centuries in 3 consecutive innings.

This hat-trick of centuries by 24 year old Sutherland has come within 3 consecutive years. He scored a century against South Africa in 2024 on the same ground in Perth. In that match, Sutherland scored 210 runs while scoring a double century. Then he played the next innings against England in Melbourne in 2025 and scored 163 runs. Now he scored this century against India in Perth itself and thus completed a hat-trick.

Australia got a big lead

Not only this, this is his fourth century in 5 Test matches and in his career of total 7 Test matches. She became the sixth batsman to score 4 centuries in women's test. Now only former England batsman Janet Brittin (5) has more centuries than her. This innings of Sutherland finally ended on the score of 129 runs. Apart from him, Parry scored 76 runs. Elana King and Lucy Hamilton also scored useful runs in the lower order, due to which Australia scored 323 runs in the first innings and took a lead of 125 runs. Fast bowler Sayali Satghare, who was making her Test debut for India, took the maximum of 4 wickets.