Healy signs off with stunning 158 as Australia sweep the World Champions in ODI leg

The curtain came down on one of the most celebrated careers in Women's ODIs. Alyssa Healy smashed 158 off 98 balls, leaving the Bellerive Oval rocking. It was the kind of farewell that Healy may not have been able to script any better.

So spectacular was Healy's knock that even a Beth Mooney hundred (106* off 84 balls) was reduced to a footnote. Australia posted 409 and India were barely able to lay a glove on it. The 185-run victory meant the hosts swept the ODI leg 3-0 to take an unassailable 8-4 lead in the multi-format series.

India formed a guard of honour as Healy walked to the crease for her last ODI innings, and she repaid that gesture with merciless brutality. A trademark pull off Kashvee Gautam got things moving, and from that moment the tempo of the game changed. There was luck—an lbw shout that DRS deemed umpire's call, a missed chance at short fine—but there was genius too.

She reached fifty off 49 balls with great control alongside Georgia Voll, who played a bristling supporting role in a 104-run stand. Voll's dismissal barely registered as a check on Australia's momentum.

Healy didn't pause. She brought up her eighth ODI century off just 79 balls and then went into a higher realm. She needed just 16 balls to travel from 100 to 150, becoming only the second woman to post two 150-plus scores in ODIs, the second fastest 150 in the women's game, and the author of the highest ever score in a women's ODI on Australian soil.

The end was almost comical—a premeditated reverse paddle sweep to a full toss saw the stumps rattled behind her back with 13.3 overs still remaining. A suspected calf problem likely had its say. But she left to a standing ovation, having joined Johmari Logtenberg as the only women to score a century in their final ODI.

Beth Mooney then took centre stage. She began cautiously before unfurling the full range in a stand of 145 with Healy. Once Healy departed, Mooney picked up the tempo ruthlessly. Her second fifty took just 29 balls. She brought up a magnificent sixth ODI century in the last over.

Alongside her, Nicola Carey smashed 34 not out from just 15 balls. The pair plundered 22 off Shree Charani's final over, pushing Australia's tally close to 400 and the young spinner's figures past 100—only the third woman in history to concede more than 100 in an ODI innings.

India were barely in the chase once Nicola Carey dismissed Smriti Mandhana for a duck in the second over. Pratika Rawal and Jemimah Rodrigues led a brisk counter-attacking stand of 54, but Rawal fell LBW and Rodrigues' 29-ball 42 was ended by Ash Gardner. Inside the 20th over, India also lost Harleen Deol and Harmanpreet Kaur with less than 120 runs on the board.

Alana King took over and dismissed Richa Ghosh and Kashvee Gautam before Deepti Sharma and Sneh Rana saved India's blushes somewhat with a 63-run stand for the eighth wicket. India passed 200 but finished a distant second, with King finishing with figures of 4 for 33.

Brief scores: Australia 409/7 in 50 overs (Alyssa Healy 158, Beth Mooney 106*; Sneh Rana 2-66) beat India 224 in 45.1 overs (Sneh Rana 44, Jemimah Rodrigues 42; Alana King 4-33) by 185 runs.