Delays with installing new floodlights at Junction Oval in Melbourne have forced the third women's ODI between Australia and India on March 1 to be moved to Hobart.

The game had been due to be the ground's first floodlit fixture but planning delays and ongoing work that would have impacted spectator access meant Cricket Australia had to move the match to Tasmania, which gives Hobart back-to-back ODIs in the series.

With the tight schedule of the series - there is just one day between the second and third ODIs - it wasn't considered practical to make the Junction Oval fixture into a day game. The MCG, which hosted the day-night Ashes Test last season, won't be available due to renovation works.

"We are disappointed we have had to move this match from Junction Oval and that there wil

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