Vastrakar said India wanted to force Australia to follow on.

“We’re going to come with more intent tomorrow [Sunday],” she said. “Obviously it’s not impossible. We’re going to try. The wickets we got in the last session were crucial and anything can happen in the game of cricket.”

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Healy was delighted with Perry’s milestone.

“It’s another incredible achievement. She’s checking off things left, right and centre. We have to keep stopping the day’s play to make sure we celebrate everything Pez has done,” Healy said.

“It shows the sort of person she is when the umpire threw me the ball after the innings and I said ‘Pez, do you want it, it’s your 300th wicket’, and she said ‘no, give it to Stella [Campbell], it’s her first’.”

The joy of Perry’s magic moment, and some impressive pace bowling from debutant Campbell, was marred by more poor catching from the Australians.

It allowed India to become the first touring women’s side since 1984 to declare in Australia thanks to Deepti Sharma’s 66, her second half-century in as many Tests.

Perry achieved her historic double when Mooney took a brilliant, diving catch in the gully to dismiss Vastrakar for 13 attempting to drive.

The major milestone of a remarkable 14-year career highlights Perry’s impact on women’s cricket.

The game was all but invisible when she began as a 16-year-old, making her international debut against New Zealand in Darwin before she had played for NSW. Perry bowled first change, claiming the first wicket in the game, and made 19 batting at No.9.

Now she is one of the most valuable and recognisable cricketers in the country. She opens the bowling and bats in the middle order.

There were questions about whether she should keep the new ball after a poor one-day series when she struggled for accuracy and failed to take a wicket after a limited preparation because of quarantine.

Like her seam-bowling colleagues, Perry had a nervous start to the Test but improved markedly as the match progressed. She could have had her milestone wicket soon after play started, when Taniya Bhatia was hit on the toe by a reverse-swinging yorker, but no one appealed.

In the tangle of bat, ball and boot it appeared the ball had been dug out but replays showed it struck the boot first.

Campbell removed Bhatia for 22, caught behind during a lively spell when the ball seamed away to catch an outside edge.

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Tall and lean with a high action, the 19-year-old used her bouncer well and bowled the ball of the match when a steeply rising delivery climbed past the bat of a fending Vastrakar.

In a worrying sign for the remainder of the match, it was actually a ball which kept low that gave Campbell her second wicket.

Sharma was lbw playing back but was unlucky. The ball would have bowled her, but it clearly pitched outside leg stump.

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