The retiring Australian captain ended his international cricket career on a winning note as Australia beat India by three days in the one-day-night Test at the WACA ground in Perth.
The comprehensive win gave Australia a decisive 12-4 points victory in the multi-format series, marking a remarkable turnaround.
After seamer-friendly conditions dictated the opening two days on a grass surface, spinners Alana King and Ashleigh Gardner wrapped up India’s second innings on the final morning within an hour, taking the last four wickets.
Debutant Prathika Rawal provided the only opposition with a 137-ball 63. By his dismissal, in the last over of the innings, India were leading by just 24 runs.
As he thundered his team off the field, Healy resisted any temptation to put on his bat for the final time, watching as regular openers Georgia Wall and Phoebe Litchfield completed the ritual of the chase.
Woll successfully overhauled debutant Sayali Sadkare’s four-wicket haul in the first innings – surviving an early scare as she and Litchfield made light work of the target.
Afterwards, Healy was engulfed by her teammates, with Gardner and Ellis Perry carrying her on their shoulders in a touching tribute to one of the game’s greatest players.
The result capped a brilliant revival for Australia, who started the series sluggishly with a 2-1 loss in the T20I leg, a poor start to Sophie Molyneux’s captaincy.
Healy’s return to the side proved a boost, with a 3-0 whitewash of the World Cup champions in the ODI leg before securing Australia’s first Test win since 2006.
Annabelle Sutherland was the undoubted star with a brilliant all-round display, amassing a mammoth 129 before taking 6 for 61 from 23 overs.
For India, who returned to Test cricket for the first time since mid-2024, it was a disappointing end to an impressive unbeaten run that lasted until February 2006.
Their last loss in this format came against Australia in Adelaide, ending a nine-match unbeaten streak. However, there were encouraging signs from debutants Rawal, Sadkare, Kranti Gaut and Kashvi Gautam.
At an abysmal 105-6, with Australia 20 runs behind to bat again, India’s slim hopes of resuming the second innings rested on a defiant Rawal and the experienced Shine Rana. The pair were determined under the lights on the second day to extend the match.
Local favorite Alana King, who bowled just three overs in the pre-final morning match, was immediately introduced to the attack and immediately found the sharp turn to hit the outside edge again and again.
The 21-year-old Rawal, unlike many of his more experienced peers, held firm while punishing the occasional loose ball to reach a well-deserved maiden Test half-century off 105 balls.
The first breakthrough came courtesy of Darcy Brown, who induced an edge at second slip from Rana. Sutherland, diving high to his right, failed to latch on to a brilliant one-handed chance.
However, Rana’s luck was short-lived; After another edge flew agonizingly between the keeper and first slip, he was bowled full by Gardner on the very next delivery.
Gautham, who scored an unbeaten 34 in India’s first innings, ducked out without reply to King’s spin before King ended Rawal’s valiant resistance.
The truncated match also served as the long-awaited official launch of the redesigned WACA stadium.
Despite the sultry conditions, patrons enjoyed the new outdoor pool and waterfalls on the terraces, with around 3,500 in attendance over the first two days at the 10,000-capacity venue.