Hobart, Feb. 24 -- India started their ODI series against Australia with a six-wicket defeat at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane on Tuesday. And Indian vice-captain Smriti Mandhana said the wicket didn't play the way the Indian team thought it would.

Australia came to the match on the back of a 1-2 series defeat in the T20I series. They successfully chased down a 215-run target after halting the visitors to 214.

During the post-match presentation, stand-in captain Mandhana said, "We started with the bat with two wickets down which is never easy. We did really well in terms of coming back. Wicket didn't play the way we thought it would."

Vice-captain Mandhana led the Indian side in Harmanpreet Kaur's absence after Kaur sustained an in...