On a day when Australia posted their highest-ever ODI total, of 412, Smriti Mandhana gave India a strong chance to chase it down with a 63-ball 125. Her 50-ball hundred was the second-fastest in all Women's ODIs .

Captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma made half-centuries from No. 4 and 5, but the chase eventually fizzled out, with India bowled out for 369 . India lost the three-match series 2-1.

Mandhana, who also scored a match-winning century in the second ODI and finished the series as its highest run-getter (300 runs), did not feel she was under too much pressure to do the heavy lifting at the top of the order, and rejected the idea that India's batting line-up is overdependent on her.

"Everyone [in the Indian side] is a match-winner - not only [the] 11 but all the 15 w

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