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).

Making a century in her final ODI, Australia's Alyssa Healy signed off in fourth place on the rankings.

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.

India started their ODI series against Australia with a six-wicket defeat at Allan Border Field in Brisbane on Tuesday. Indian vice-captain Smriti Mandhana said the wicket did not play the way the team had expected

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.

India began the year with a T20 series win against Australia, their first series triumph over the formidable rivals in a decade.

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.

Aiming to establish an unassailable lead over Australia, Harmanpreet Kaur's India would draw confidence from a strong bowling performance in the rain-hit opening win when the two sides square off in the second and penultimate T20I on Thursday.