The Australian Team Sets a New Benchmark as Healy Has One Peak Left to Climb.

It's difficult for Australia to set fresh records.

The greatest achievements have already been conquered.

We're talking about the team that has won seven Cricket World Cups, in addition to an additional six T20 titles, and once went nearly four years without defeat in 50-over cricket.

The remaining milestones, targeted by the record chasers, are all that remain for a squad that has accomplished all there is.

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The fact it required up to Sunday's victory by three wickets over India for them to achieve their initial ODI chase exceeding 300, reclaiming their record for the highest in the women's 50-over format, is, frankly, a testament to the bowlers that have represented Australia over the past 50 years.

It's difficult for their hitters to hold a record if not afforded the opportunity.

Finally, the outcome of Australia allowing 330 runs was skipper Alyssa Healy getting a chance to create her most recent brilliance.

Then best known as the teenage relative of renowned former Aussie wicketkeeper Ian, she first played in 2010 after her country didn't secure either of the 20 or 50-over World Cups from the prior year and has seen it all through 15 championship-filled years since.

Success in the T20 World Cup happened three months after her debut and seven international trophies have followed from 10 tries across formats.

The determined wicketkeeper was in attendance in Derby in 2017 when a semi-final setback by India briefly halted the run of success.

That loss "motivated us to reevaluate our levels," Healy stated recently.

At the subsequent ODI World Cup in New Zealand, Healy scored 170 against England in the final and was awarded tournament MVP. She made sure her country would not come up short.

If this recent magnificent innings exceeded that prior achievement can be debated.

Certain people claim the argument supporting the pressure of a final. Some might respond with the challenge that comes when confronting a historic chase and a loud pro-India audience of 20,000.

What is certain is this hundred was far harder to see coming.

The New Zealand onslaught in 2022 occurred when she led the batting statistics, but this knock came after six matches in India from the beginning of the previous month in which she had been unable to reach 30.

"If you've been watching me in practice sessions, it has been a frustrating experience because it seemed I lacked timing completely," commented Healy.

"But once you step out on the field, your competitive instincts activate and you simply focus on the competition."

Healy's competitive nature has always been her great strength - and an invaluable trait in taking over from famous previous leader Meg Lanning.

She was challenged by India's emerging talent Kranti Gaud in last month's ODI series, out to the 22-year-old seamer in all three matches, but on this occasion it simply offered Healy's spark.

A single was taken off Gaud's first delivery and from there the right-hander was underway.

"An opportunity to take the field and lock in a contest with her and merely enjoy the moment in that regard, kind of motivated me," said Healy.

She achieved fifty in 35 deliveries - her swiftest at the global tournament - and her century in 84 as she punished short deliveries, scoring 21 fours and three big hits.

When she was removed the team needed 66 additional runs at one run per ball - a manageable total now requiring a leisurely stroll.

"To chase 330 is uncharted waters so I'm pleased we have the belief to do that now," added Healy.

"Ideally we won't need to repeat it but, should it happen, we believe we can do it."

That comment will be the final thing Australia's opponents at this championship want to hear.

Over the past five days a belief they will triumph from any situation has grown stronger - this success succeeding victory over Pakistan by 107 run margin despite struggling at 76-7 at one point.

Following this Australia face Bangladesh before a match against traditional opponents England in Indore in 10 days, by which point a semi-final place may probably be guaranteed.

It was in the semi-finals they left last year's T20 World Cup in a shock defeat by South Africa - an encounter Healy missed because of ruptured tissue in her foot as she led her country for the initial instance at an important competition.

So strong is her resolve, she later said she wanted to have participated through the pain.

Yet even as she afterwards confessed those injuries have delayed consideration of ending her career, this tournament is anticipated as her last as captain in one-day cricket and she is hasn't yet secured a global event as skipper.

Triumph in India would take her to the summit of her final mountain.