<p>Mumbai: India women's team captain Harmanpreet Kaur expressed her unhappiness with the fielding effort and asked her players to play aggressive cricket following the home team's crushing six-wicket loss to Australia in the first one-dayer here on Thursday.</p><p>Despite India putting up their best-ever ODI score of 282/8 against Australia, the visitors chased down the target in the 47th over with opener Phoebe Litchfield (78) and Ellyse Perry (75) involved in a 148-run partnership.</p><p>A sloppy Indian fielding allowed Phoebe, Ellyse, Tahlia McGrath (68 off 55 balls) and Beth Mooney (42) to score runs at will to overhaul the target with ease.</p>.South Africa beat India by innings and 32 runs to win first Test. <p>"We managed to get a defendable total. Bowlers did their job but fielding didn't work well. After a while dew was there, but bowlers did well to keep stumps in play," said Harmanpreet after the match.</p><p>"But I was unhappy with our fielding, Australia were amazing saving runs. Pooja was great. We need to back ourselves and play aggressive cricket," she added.</p><p>Australia skipper Alyssa Healy, who could not contribute with the bat at the top of the order after going for a duck, said the batters quickly overcame the early loss and this was the "blueprint" the team was aiming for.</p><p>"Batting approach was sensational, that was the blueprint we want to put out there. Our batters play down the ground really well, helps when the ball is skidding on a little bit. Girls bounced back and showed how we wanted to play," said Alyssa.</p><p>Ellyse said her team-mates knew a tough contest was expected from India and the need of the hour was to "raise the bar".</p><p>India had defeated Australia by eight wickets in the one-off Test at this venue a few days back.</p><p>"We've been pushed by India, so we got to raise the bar. I thought 280 was around, had a good effort in the field and bowled well for a large part. With the lights coming on and ball coming on, the bowlers had a low margin for error with the field restrictions. We started positively and capitalised.</p><p>"We never let the grip loose which was pleasing. Our energy in the field matched with the bowling."</p>
<p>Mumbai: India women's team captain Harmanpreet Kaur expressed her unhappiness with the fielding effort and asked her players to play aggressive cricket following the home team's crushing six-wicket loss to Australia in the first one-dayer here on Thursday.</p><p>Despite India putting up their best-ever ODI score of 282/8 against Australia, the visitors chased down the target in the 47th over with opener Phoebe Litchfield (78) and Ellyse Perry (75) involved in a 148-run partnership.</p><p>A sloppy Indian fielding allowed Phoebe, Ellyse, Tahlia McGrath (68 off 55 balls) and Beth Mooney (42) to score runs at will to overhaul the target with ease.</p>.South Africa beat India by innings and 32 runs to win first Test. <p>"We managed to get a defendable total. Bowlers did their job but fielding didn't work well. After a while dew was there, but bowlers did well to keep stumps in play," said Harmanpreet after the match.</p><p>"But I was unhappy with our fielding, Australia were amazing saving runs. Pooja was great. We need to back ourselves and play aggressive cricket," she added.</p><p>Australia skipper Alyssa Healy, who could not contribute with the bat at the top of the order after going for a duck, said the batters quickly overcame the early loss and this was the "blueprint" the team was aiming for.</p><p>"Batting approach was sensational, that was the blueprint we want to put out there. Our batters play down the ground really well, helps when the ball is skidding on a little bit. Girls bounced back and showed how we wanted to play," said Alyssa.</p><p>Ellyse said her team-mates knew a tough contest was expected from India and the need of the hour was to "raise the bar".</p><p>India had defeated Australia by eight wickets in the one-off Test at this venue a few days back.</p><p>"We've been pushed by India, so we got to raise the bar. I thought 280 was around, had a good effort in the field and bowled well for a large part. With the lights coming on and ball coming on, the bowlers had a low margin for error with the field restrictions. We started positively and capitalised.</p><p>"We never let the grip loose which was pleasing. Our energy in the field matched with the bowling."</p>