3rd ODI Australia Women vs India moved to Hobart
The much-anticipated Australia Women vs India Women 3rd ODI 2025 has been shifted from Junction Oval, Melbourne to Hobart. The March 1 clash was originally set to be Junction Oval’s first floodlit international fixture. However, delays in installing new floodlights and ongoing construction work affecting spectator access forced Cricket Australia to move the game.
With just one day separating the second and third ODIs, rescheduling the fixture as a day game was not practical. The Melbourne Cricket Ground, which hosted the women’s Ashes Test last season, is unavailable due to renovation works.
“We are disappointed we have had to move this match from Junction Oval and that there will be no women’s international match in Melbourne this season,” Peter Roach, CA’s head of cricket operations and scheduling, said. “We anticipated the Junction Oval lights would be installed several weeks before this fixture and were looking forward to celebrating the first international match under lights at the ground.”
This change now gives Hobart back-to-back ODIs in the series. Junction Oval will continue to host WBBL matches for Melbourne Stars and Melbourne Renegades, but all as daytime fixtures.
Series Context
The ODIs are part of a multi-format series between Australia Women and India Women, starting with three T20Is and ending with a day-night Test at the WACA in Perth. The women’s home season was pushed to February and March, due to the WPL moving to January and the ODI World Cup in October.
Captain Alyssa Healy earlier addressed the scheduling shift:
“Not having an international fixture in that school holiday period does hurt a little bit, but in saying that, it kind of extends the cricket season, which isn’t completely a bad thing for our sport. At the back end of the Ashes [last year], I felt like that was really cool to have it at the end of the Border-Gavaskar [Trophy], so hopefully there’s similar sort of momentum this year at the end of the men’s Ashes, that there’s still some more cricket to watch.”
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