The Australian Team Breaks New Ground as Captain Alyssa Healy Has One Peak Left to Climb.

It's tough for Australia to achieve unprecedented feats.

The greatest achievements have been successfully scaled.

We're talking about the team that has secured seven Cricket World Cups, along with another six T20 titles, and earlier maintained nearly four years without defeat in 50-over cricket.

The remaining milestones, the ones sought by the peak baggers, are what's still available for a team that has achieved everything.

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It needed until Sunday's three-wicket win over India for them to achieve their initial ODI chase above 300, reclaiming their record for the largest in the women's 50-over format, is, frankly, a compliment to the pitchers that have worn canary yellow over five decades.

It is hard for their batsmen to maintain a record if not afforded the possibility.

Finally, the consequence of Australia giving up 330 runs was captain Alyssa Healy getting a chance to produce her newest gem.

Then best known as the teenage relative of celebrated previous Aussie wicketkeeper Ian, she made her debut in 2010 after Australia didn't secure either of the T20 or ODI World Cups held the previous year and has seen it all through 15 championship-filled years since.

A T20 World Cup win arrived three months after her bow and seven world titles have followed from 10 tries across formats.

The tough gloveman was present as well in Derby in 2017 when a semi-final defeat by India briefly halted the successful run.

That loss "drove us to reevaluate our levels," Healy commented earlier.

At the next 50-over World Cup in New Zealand, Healy hit 170 against England in the championship match and was awarded tournament MVP. She made sure her country would not fail again.

Whether this newest brilliant performance surpassed that earlier display is debatable.

Certain people claim the argument supporting final game tension. Others can counter with the difficulty that comes when facing a record target and a raucous India-supporting crowd of 20,000.

What's definite is this hundred was far harder to predict.

The Christchurch destruction in 2022 occurred when she led the batting statistics, but this performance came after six matches in India since the start of last month in which she had failed to pass 30.

"If you've observed me in training, it was a challenging time because I feel like my form was missing whatsoever," said Healy.

"But once you take the field, your fighting spirit take over and you completely engage with the contest."

Healy's fighting spirit has always been her major advantage - and an invaluable trait in taking over from iconic ex-skipper Meg Lanning.

She was tormented by India's emerging talent Kranti Gaud in recent ODI series, fallen to the 22-year-old seamer in all three matches, but here that only provided Healy's motivation.

A single came off the opening delivery and from there the batsman was on her way.

"A chance to play and engage in competition with her and merely enjoy the moment in that aspect, kind of motivated me," commented Healy.

She achieved fifty in 35 pitches - her fastest at a World Cup - and her century in 84 as she attacked short-pitched balls, striking 21 boundaries and three maximums.

Once she was out the team required another 66 at run per delivery - a manageable total now needing a comfortable finish.

"Pursuing 330 is new territory so I'm happy we have the belief to accomplish that now," stated Healy further.

"Ideally we won't need to do it again but, if necessary, we believe we can succeed."

Those words will be the last Australia's opponents at this World Cup should hear.

During the last week a belief they will win from any position has grown stronger - this success succeeding victory over Pakistan by 107-run victory despite struggling at 76-7 at a certain moment.

Following this Australia face Bangladesh before a match against old rivals England in Indore in 10 days, by which point a semi-final place may well be secure.

It was in the semi-finals they were eliminated from the prior year's T20 World Cup in a surprising setback by South Africa - a match Healy couldn't play because of ruptured tissue in her foot as she guided Australia for the initial instance at a major tournament.

So great is her will, she subsequently stated she wished she had played with the discomfort.

But while she later admitted those injuries have postponed plans to retire, this tournament is anticipated as her final tournament as skipper in one-day cricket and she is still to achieve a world championship as captain.

Success in India would take her to the summit of her ultimate challenge.