Australia a Defeat 121 for 3 (McGrath 51*, Wilson 39) India a 120 for 8 (Navgre 38, Parsons 2-18, Brown 2-19) by seven wickets
Willemink, who was benched in the second T20I, made an immediate impact on his return to Australia A. The 25-year-old pacer walked away with remarkable figures of 4-0-6-1. He ducked Subha Sathish off the second ball of the match.
The rest of India A’s top and middle order did not fare well. Priya Punia scored 11 runs off 18 balls, Shweta Sehrawat struggled with 15 runs off 28 balls and Tanuja Kanwar fell for 7 runs off 10 balls.
India A were in trouble at 47 for 5 when Sajeevan Sajana fell for 10 – Parsons took two wickets in the 13th over. But Kiran Navgreh and skipper Minnu Mani combined for 57 runs to help the team cross the 20-run mark. overs.
Navgrey was aggressive, scoring 38 off 20 balls, while Mani scored 22 off 23 balls before he was dismissed by Brown, who returned to the playing XI after the first T20.
Wilson chased Meghna Singh with two fours in his first over and after two quiet overs, he hit Kanwar for two fours and a six.
Shabnam Shakil dismissed Katie Mack in the fifth over and Mannath Kashyap halted Wilson’s march in the eighth over, but McGrath did not let Australia A lose any momentum. From the start of the tenth over, she hit a flurry of boundaries, targeting Kanwar, Meghna and Kashyap. Even Charlie Knott’s wicket in the 13th over was not going to deter the hosts due to his aggressive play.
McGrath hit three Shabnam boundaries in the 14th over to finish the job and score a half-century, his last game unbeaten on 47. McGrath hit 8 fours and two sixes.