Southern Stars put it all together

The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars had been searching for a complete team performance – and that was exactly what they found at Manuka Oval on Tuesday, both as an XI and through allrounder Ellyse Perry.

Australia dominated with bat, ball and in the field in their mammoth 101-run victory over India, which came in stark contrast to the tourists' hard fought 2-1 T20 series win.

For the second match running Perry starred in all facets of the game, scoring an equal career-best 90 before executing a run-out and snaring four wickets.

The 25-year-old, who started her career as a fast bowler who was somewhat handy with the bat, has been in staggeringly good form when it comes to scoring runs in the one-day format for the past two years.

Eight of her past nine innings have resulted in half-centuries, the other score a measly 48.

In her 11 knocks since January 2014 – having gradually moved her way higher up the order – she has scored 701 runs including nine half-centuries, averaged 100.1 and grabbed 17 wickets, demonstrating exactly how well her all-round game has developed.

In typical humble Perry fashion, the reigning Belinda Clark Award winner played down her contribution after the match.

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"It was really nice, and I think today was our most comprehensive game of cricket so far," Perry said.

"It fell my way today with the wickets. I think Holly Ferling bowled really well up front and our spinners dried up the runs and played them out of the game.

"It's always nice to have an opportunity in the middle and contribute to the side. That's what I enjoy the most.

"It's gone my way (with the bat) recently, but Alex batted outstandingly today and Meg Lanning up top set the run rate high and gave us a buffer to build a big total as well."

Perry's performance aside, there was plenty more for Australia to be pleased about in their victory. Not least of all Alex Blackwell's superb century, her third overall and her first since 2008 - also scored at Manuka against India.

"I'd had a couple of 80s and 90s since my last hundred, which was also here against India, so it’s a bit weird that I'm here scoring my next hundred against the same opposition at the same ground," Blackwell said.

One major sore point for the Southern Stars during the T20 series was the fact they were out-fielded by India.

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Ellyse Perry cuts during her innings of 90 // Getty

"I feel like they've out-fielded us, and that will be something we will look to rectify in these one-dayers to have match-turning efforts in the field," Blackwell had said on Monday ahead of the match.

"Perhaps we have been historically the bar to reach in terms of our fielding ... but India have raised the bar. We want to keep improving and keep being No.1 in all formats."

Tuesday's showing was much cleaner, with the exception of a tricky diving chance that Blackwell put down, but later made up for with a terrific running grab.

"It was a really good effort, we shut down the twos really well," Blackwell said.

"It was nice to take a catch there, but I was disappointed to put down a tricky one into the sun."

With two more ODIs to come, both in Hobart, Blackwell said the Southern Stars would look to inflict further pain on the tourists.

"It was a very comprehensive win, which was very important because we didn’t play our best cricket and India were very good in the T20s, so we needed to put our confidence up a bit and dent their confidence a bit heading into the T20 World Cup."