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It's difficult for Australia to achieve unprecedented feats.

The top summits have been successfully scaled.

This is the team that has won seven Cricket World Cups, plus an additional six T20 titles, and previously enjoyed over three years unbeaten in 50-over cricket.

The remaining milestones, those for the achievement hunters, are all that remain for a side that has achieved everything.

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The fact it required as late as Sunday's success by three wickets over India for them to achieve their initial ODI chase over 300, reclaiming their record for the biggest in the women's 50-over format, is, frankly, a compliment to the bowling attack that have worn canary yellow over the past 50 years.

It is hard for their batsmen to hold a record if never given the chance.

Finally, the outcome of Australia conceding 330 was captain Alyssa Healy receiving a chance to produce her newest gem.

Originally famous as the teenage relative of celebrated previous Aussie wicketkeeper Ian, she made her debut in 2010 after her country couldn't capture either of the T20 or ODI World Cups conducted earlier and has seen it all through 15 successful years since.

A T20 World Cup win arrived three months after her bow and seven world titles have come from 10 tries across formats.

The tough gloveman was present as well in Derby in 2017 when a last-four loss by India momentarily interrupted the winning streak.

That loss "drove us to rethink our standards," Healy stated recently.

At the subsequent ODI World Cup in New Zealand, Healy made 170 against England in the final and was declared player of the series. She guaranteed her country would not fail again.

Whether this latest epic knock topped that previous effort remains open for discussion.

Some will argue the argument supporting championship match pressure. Some might respond with the test that comes when pursuing an unprecedented total and a raucous India-supporting crowd of 20,000.

What's definite is this century was far harder to see coming.

The Christchurch carnage in 2022 came as she led the batting statistics, but this knock was preceded by six games in India from the beginning of the previous month in which she had been unable to reach 30.

"For those following me in the nets, it's been a challenging time because I feel like my form was missing whatsoever," commented Healy.

"Yet the moment you step out on the field, your competitive instincts kick in and you just lock into the contest."

Healy's competitive nature has consistently been her great strength - and an invaluable trait in succeeding legendary former captain Meg Lanning.

She was troubled by India's promising player Kranti Gaud in the previous month's ODI series, out to the young fast bowler in each encounter, but on this occasion it simply offered Healy's motivation.

A single came off Gaud's first delivery and from there the batsman was on her way.

"A chance to go out there and engage in competition with her and just have a bit of fun in that aspect, sort of got me going," said Healy.

She achieved fifty in 35 deliveries - her swiftest at the World Cup - and her hundred in 84 deliveries while she punished short deliveries, hitting 21 fours and three sixes.

Once she was removed the team needed 66 more at a run-a-ball - an achievable target now requiring a leisurely stroll.

"Pursuing 330 is unfamiliar ground so I'm happy we have the confidence to accomplish that now," added Healy.

"Preferably we shouldn't have to do it another time but, if we do, we believe we can do it."

That comment will be the ultimate thing rival teams at this World Cup want to hear.

Over the past five days a feeling they will triumph from any situation has grown stronger - this triumph coming after success over Pakistan by 107-run victory despite struggling at 76-7 at one point.

Subsequently Australia meet 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 were eliminated from the previous year's T20 World Cup in a surprising setback by South Africa - a match Healy missed because of torn tissue in her foot as she captained her nation for the first time at an important competition.

So great is her will, she later said she wished she had played through the pain.

Yet even as she afterwards confessed those injuries have postponed plans to retire, this World Cup is expected to be her final tournament as skipper in ODI cricket and she is still to achieve a global event as captain.

Triumph in India would bring her to the top of her final mountain.