Sobhana Mostary's century for Bangladesh made history in the second ODI, yet it was Georgia Voll's contribution that drew the most attention as Australia sealed a nine-wicket victory by a wide margin. Batting first at Allan Border Field, Sobhana compiled 118 runs off 134 deliveries without offering a chance, becoming the first Bangladeshi woman to reach three figures in an international match against Australia.
Nigar Sultana Joty, unbeaten on 74 from 111 balls, combined with her batting partner in a 195-run stand that broke the previous record for any ODI partnership against the Australian women, carrying the visitors to a total of 6-222.
Voll reached three figures for the third time in ODI cricket, finishing unbeaten on 131 from 97 balls, a total that put the series beyond the reach of her opponents. Phoebe Litchfield's 70 off 51 balls anchored a 162-run stand that put Australia firmly in control, and with Ellyse Perry yet to face a ball when the chase concluded in 28.1 overs, the series was already decided with a game to spare.
Two wickets had already fallen inside the opening two-and-a-half overs when Fargana Hoque and Sharmin Sultana settled into a cautious approach at the crease, with Bangladesh needing 20 deliveries to register their first run from the bat. Schutt's delivery found the edge of Fargana's bat in the third over, with Mooney pouching the chance to remove the opening pair after they had added just two runs together.
Bowlers Schutt and Kim Garth each claimed a wicket as the visitors' innings found a livelier tempo, though the first seven overs had yielded only eight runs and left the touring side three down for eight.
After a measured start alongside her captain Joty at the crease, Sobhana found her range in the 13th over, dispatching three deliveries from Georgia Wareham to the boundary and tilting the contest away from Australia's favour. Sobhana took the lead role in attack as the Bangladeshi pair found the runs coming more readily.
That half-century, reached off 66 deliveries, marked only the second time a Bangladesh woman had posted a fifty-run innings against Australia — the first having belonged to Sobhana herself, whose unbeaten 66 came at the previous year's ODI World Cup. With their stand building in momentum, Nigar reached her own half-century off 97 deliveries.
Sobhana, aged 24, worked the innings along steadily through the nineties until a cover-drive off the 123rd ball carried the total past three figures. Reaching three figures for the first time across any format, Sobhana joined a group of only two other Bangladesh women who had previously reached that mark in ODI cricket.
Two consecutive boundaries off Annabel Sutherland's bowling in the 47th over carried her past 107 — the previous national women's record held by Fargana — to establish a new high score for Bangladesh. A delivery from Schutt — a full toss that caught the base of leg stump — brought her 134-ball stay at the crease to a close.
That dismissal also brought down the curtain on a 195-run partnership between Sobhana and Nigar, a stand that had grown into the largest for any wicket by any team against Australia in women's ODI history, surpassing the 170 added by New Zealand's Emily Drumm and Rebecca Rolls back in 2022. Nigar walked off unbeaten on 74 after two late wickets fell, leaving Bangladesh's total at 6-222.
Four boundaries struck off Ritu Moni's bowling in the 10th over brought Voll's tally to a half-century from 34 deliveries, with she and Litchfield maintaining a steady grip on the Bangladesh bowlers throughout. Her half-century arrived off just 41 deliveries, with the opening stand already past three figures when Litchfield reached the landmark midway through the 13th over.
The innings came to an end in that final over when a reverse sweep, glancing off the leading edge, found Habiba Islam stationed at cover — though not before a six had sailed over the long-on boundary against Shorna Akter's bowling.
A hundred scored in ODI cricket on three occasions now belongs to Voll, with the most recent knock — her second at Allan Border Field — taking just 81 deliveries to complete. With three centuries and three fifties accumulated across only 15 ODI appearances, Voll moved past the 101 mark for the first time after twice falling at that score, extending her record in women's ODI cricket to territory she had not previously occupied.
