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It's difficult for Australia to achieve unprecedented feats.

The highest peaks have long been mastered.

This is the unit that has secured seven Cricket World Cups, along with six more T20 titles, and earlier maintained over three years without defeat 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 achieve their initial ODI chase over 300, taking back their record for the biggest in women's cricket's 50-over format, is, frankly, a compliment to the pitchers that have sported the yellow jersey over the last half-century.

It's challenging for their batters to maintain a record if not provided the chance.

Finally, the consequence of Australia giving up 330 runs was captain Alyssa Healy being given a chance to deliver her newest gem.

Then best known as the 19-year-old niece of renowned former Aussie wicketkeeper Ian, she debuted in 2010 after Australia couldn't capture either of the 20 or 50-over World Cups conducted earlier and has witnessed all through 15 successful years since.

A T20 championship victory arrived three months after her debut and seven world titles have followed from 10 efforts across formats.

The gritty keeper was in attendance in Derby in 2017 when a semi-final setback by India momentarily interrupted the run of success.

That loss "motivated us to reconsider our benchmarks," Healy stated recently.

At the following one-day championship in New Zealand, Healy hit 170 against England in the final and was declared player of the series. She guaranteed her country would not come up short.

The question of whether this latest epic knock topped that previous effort remains open for discussion.

Many contend the argument supporting final game tension. Some might respond with the test that comes when pursuing an unprecedented total and a loud pro-India audience of 20,000.

What is certain is this hundred was much more difficult to see coming.

The New Zealand onslaught in 2022 occurred when she led the batting statistics, but this performance came after six matches in India since the start of last month in which she had failed to pass 30.

"If you've observed me in the nets, it was a disappointing period because it appeared my form was missing at all," commented Healy.

"But once you take the field, your competitive instincts take over and you just lock into the competition."

Healy's fighting spirit has always been her major advantage - and an irreplaceable characteristic in succeeding famous previous leader Meg Lanning.

She was tormented by India's emerging talent Kranti Gaud in recent ODI series, fallen to the 22-year-old seamer in all three matches, but on this occasion it simply offered Healy's inspiration.

A single came off the bowler's initial ball and after that the right-hander was underway.

"A chance to take the field and face the challenge with her and simply enjoy myself that way, sort of got me going," commented Healy.

She got to fifty in 35 balls - her swiftest at the global tournament - and her hundred in 84 deliveries while she flogged anything short, hitting 21 fours and three big hits.

Once she was removed the team needed 66 additional runs at run per delivery - a manageable total now requiring a leisurely stroll.

"Pursuing 330 is unfamiliar ground so I'm pleased we have the confidence to achieve that now," continued Healy.

"Preferably we shouldn't have to do it again but, should it happen, we are confident we can achieve it."

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

Over the past five days a sense they will triumph from any situation has become more firm - this triumph coming after win against Pakistan by 107 runs despite sitting at 76-7 at a certain moment.

Next Australia play Bangladesh before a meeting with old rivals England in Indore in a week and a half, by which point a semi-final berth may likely be confirmed.

During that phase they exited the prior year's T20 World Cup in a surprising setback by South Africa - an encounter Healy missed because of ruptured tissue in her foot as she led her country for the initial instance at a major tournament.

So strong is her resolve, she later said she regretted not playing despite the injury.

Yet even as she later admitted those fitness problems have delayed consideration of ending her career, this tournament is anticipated as her concluding event as leader in one-day cricket and she is yet to win a global event as leader.

Success in India would take her to the summit of her last major obstacle.