Georgia Voll’s unbeaten 131 from 97 balls against Bangladesh was more than a match-winning innings: it showed how the 23-year-old is learning to balance her explosive instincts with the demands of a 50-over innings. Her third ODI century in just 15 innings powered Australia to a nine-wicket win in the second ODI at Allan Border Field, Brisbane, on 11 October 2026, sealing the three-match series 2-0 with a game to spare.
Chasing 221, Voll opened alongside Phoebe Litchfield and helped Australia reach the target in just 28.1 overs. She struck 19 boundaries, while Litchfield supplied a brisk 70 from 51 balls. Their contrasting styles made for a fluent chase: Litchfield’s movement and invention complemented Voll’s power, and the pair put Australia firmly in control.
Georgia Voll’s innings also reflected work she has been doing to manage her tempo after a fast start. “That’s been a thing that I’ve worked on, is going through the gears a little bit more,” she said. The challenge, she explained, was to adapt her power-hitting to the one-day format “but not take away that ability to try and score quickly.”
That adjustment proved valuable against a Bangladesh side led by captain Nigar Sultana Joty. Australia had played on the same ground and pitch in the first ODI, and Voll said the surface appeared to have flattened out. “The key thing was getting in, and if you get in, make it a big score,” she said. After scoring 19 from 18 balls in the first match, she stayed at the crease long enough in the second to turn a promising start into a decisive hundred.
The century placed Voll in rare company. Only Meg Lanning reached her first three ODI hundreds in fewer innings, doing so in 14; Voll has done it in 15. Since making her ODI debut against India in Brisbane on 5 December 2024, Voll has scored 699 runs in 15 innings at an average of 58.25 and a strike rate of 115.53, with three centuries and two half-centuries.
Her rise has been especially striking given that she initially came into international cricket as a replacement for the injured Alyssa Healy and appeared intermittently before taking over as a regular opener last April. Alongside Litchfield, also 23, she has helped give Australia a young opening partnership with early signs of real promise. Across 10 innings together, the pair average 62.5 and have shared two century stands and four half-century stands.
“We’ve grown up playing cricket against and with each other,” Voll said. “Every time we get to walk out there together and open the batting for Australia is pretty special, and I think we complement each other really well.”
Australia won the first ODI by seven wickets at Allan Border Field on 9 October, before Voll’s Player of the Match performance secured the series. The teams will meet again in the third and final ODI of Bangladesh’s historic maiden white-ball bilateral series in Australia on 14 October, starting at 9:20 AM IST.
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