Alyssa Healy hung up her boots from all forms of cricket after leading Australia women to a 10-wicket victory over India in the one-off Test match held at the WACA Stadium in Perth.
Hammered in the ODIs, the Indian women's cricket team would expect the senior players to step up with inspiring performances when it faces Australia in a day-night Test for the first time in nearly five years.
The team joins a select group of Indian athletes nominated for main Laureus categories, including Vinesh Phogat (2019), Neeraj Chopra (2022), and Rishabh Pant (2025).
Georgia Voll (101) made the most of three lifelines while Phoebe Litchfield hit a belligerent 80 to power Australia to a five-wicket win against India.
India Women vs Australia Women, 2nd Women's ODI: Australia cruised to victory over India to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match ODI series.
Australia outplayed reigning world champions India in all departments to pick up a comfortable six-wicket win in the first Women's ODI in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Harmanpreet Kaur played a crucial yet sluggish knock, scoring 53 runs off 84 deliveries before being dismissed by Ashleigh Gardner.
An entertaining century partnership between Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues powered India to a 17-run win over Australia in the third and final Women's T20I on Saturday, sealing their first bilateral T20I series triumph against the formidable rivals in a decade.
Despite registering a few victories in the past, the Indian women are yet to score a bilateral series win in Australia across all three formats.
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur etched her name into the record books on Thursday, becoming the most-capped player in women's international cricket.