The Australian Team Establishes a Fresh Record as Captain Alyssa Healy Faces One Final Mountain.

It's a challenge for Australia to achieve unprecedented feats.

The highest peaks have long been mastered.

This is the team that has won seven Cricket World Cups, in addition to an additional six T20 titles, and earlier maintained nearly four years undefeated in 50-over cricket.

The alternative records, those for the record chasers, are what's still available for a team that has accomplished all there is.

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That it took until Sunday's three-wicket win over India for them to accomplish their maiden ODI chase above 300, regaining their record for the biggest in the women's 50-over format, is, in truth, a compliment to the bowlers that have represented Australia over five decades.

It's difficult for their batsmen to possess a record if not afforded the possibility.

Ultimately, the outcome of Australia giving up 330 runs was skipper Alyssa Healy receiving a chance to deliver her latest masterpiece.

Originally famous as the teenage relative of renowned former Aussie wicketkeeper Ian, she first played in 2010 after her nation didn't secure either of the 20 or 50-over World Cups conducted earlier and has seen it all through 15 successful years since.

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

The tough gloveman was also there in Derby in 2017 when a last-four loss by India temporarily stopped the successful run.

That loss "drove us to rethink our standards," Healy said this week.

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

The question of whether this newest brilliant performance surpassed that earlier display remains open for discussion.

Some will argue the reasoning behind championship match pressure. Different voices suggest with the challenge that comes when confronting a historic chase and a loud pro-India audience of 20,000.

What's clear is this century was far harder to see coming.

The New Zealand onslaught in 2022 happened while she was the highest scorer, but this knock followed six innings in India from the beginning of the previous month in which she had failed to pass 30.

"For those following me in practice sessions, it was a frustrating experience because I feel like my form was missing whatsoever," stated Healy.

"Yet the moment you step out on the field, your fighting spirit activate and you simply focus on the competition."

Healy's competitiveness has continuously been her major advantage - and an irreplaceable characteristic in replacing iconic ex-skipper Meg Lanning.

She was troubled by India's emerging talent Kranti Gaud in recent ODI series, fallen to the young fast bowler in all three matches, but this time it merely gave Healy's motivation.

A single came off the bowler's initial ball and from that point Healy was underway.

"The possibility to play and face the challenge with her and just have a bit of fun in that aspect, sort of got me going," stated Healy.

She reached fifty in 35 balls - her quickest at the World Cup - and her ton in 84 deliveries while she punished short deliveries, striking 21 boundaries and three sixes.

When she was dismissed her side required another 66 at run per delivery - an unconquered height now needing a comfortable finish.

"To chase 330 is uncharted waters so I am glad we have the assurance to accomplish that now," stated Healy further.

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

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

Over the past five days a belief they will triumph from any situation has only strengthened - this victory coming after success over Pakistan by 107-run victory despite sitting at 76-7 at one stage.

Following this Australia face Bangladesh before a match against old rivals England in Indore in a week and a half, by which point a semi-final berth may probably be guaranteed.

It was in the semi-finals they were eliminated from the prior year's T20 World Cup in a shock defeat by South Africa - a match Healy missed because of damaged tissue in her foot as she led her country for the initial instance at a significant event.

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

But while she later admitted those physical issues have delayed thoughts of retirement, this championship is anticipated as her final tournament as skipper in one-day cricket and she is yet to win a world championship as leader.

Victory in India would lead her to the peak of her final mountain.