3 min readUpdated: Mar 6, 2026 06:31 PM IST
Sayali Satghare, one of India’s four Test debutants, produced a sensational delivery in her first spell to dismiss Australia opener Georgia Voll late on Day One of the Pink-ball Test match at WACA in Perth on Friday.
The allrounder from Mumbai, who has played three ODIs for India in the past, got her Test cap in Perth on the back of impressive swing bowling during the recently-concluded WPL season. Playing for eventual champions RCB, and having been drafted in as a late replacement, Sayali got the new ball to move around prodigiously and was regularly delivering early wickets.
She’d do just that to her RCB teammate Voll, getting the new pink ball to move from well outside offstump, swerve inward through the gap between bat and pad, and hitting the top of the legstump.
Sayali Satghare gets an extraordinary amount of movement for her first Test wicket 😱 #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/MICOl3lFan
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) March 6, 2026
Earlier in the day, in her first spell as a Test cricketer for Australia, Lucy Hamilton picked up the prize wicket of India opener Smriti Mandhana with a terrific delivery too.
Hamilton, 19, made her ODI debut in the recent 50-over leg of the multi-format series against India, but went wicketless in Hobart in the third match of that series. But trusted to take the new ball at WACA, Hamilton came up with a sensational fuller-length delivery in the sixth over of the first morning. It moved in ever so slightly into Mandhana, who was beaten in equal measure by the extra pace and the angle in from the leftie – with not many left-arm pacers around in the women’s game, it’s not a prospect Mandhana is used to facing on a regular basis.
This has got to be up there with some of the great first Test wickets in history!
Lucy Hamilton goes straight through Smriti Mandhana 😱@nrmainsurance | #PlayoftheDay | #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/lc7rHuOBDw
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) March 6, 2026
It was early vindication for Australia captain Alyssa Healy who won the toss and opted to bowl, wanting to unleash the pacers on this Indian batting unit that is under pressure after severely underperforming in the ODIs. India were eventually bowled out for 198
Four debutants
This is, of course, the legendary wicketkeeper-batter Healy’s last match of her illustrious career. India captain Harmanpreet Kaur said her team has four debutants in Pratika Rawal, Kashvee Gautam, Sayali Satghare and Kranti Gaud. Before the pink-ball Test, India had won the T20I series 2-1 but lost the three-match ODI contest 0-3. In the mutli-format series.
India led 4-2 after T20Is but are now trailing 4-8, with four points at stake for the winner of the Test in Perth.
Indian women’steam doesn’t play Test cricket often but have a good record in recent times. The Harmanpreet Kaur-led side won three consecutive Tests between December 2023 and July 2024 defeating England, Australia and South Africa respectively, with all those wins came on home soil. India’s last two overseas Tests ended in draws against England and Australia in 2021. The game against Australia in September-October of that year was a day-nighter that the visitors drew.
