Australia beat SA for fresh hattrick of Women’s T20 World Cup wins | Cricket
The Australian ladies’ cricket team has added a new World Cup title on Sunday. Meg Lanning’s team has managed to maintain secon hatric in womens’ T20 World Cup titles with a guaranteed 19-run prevail upon South Africa in the finals at Newlands, Cape Town.
South Africa sparkled on occasion however their expectations of turning a first Cup last, men or ladies, into triumph were run against rivals excessively experienced and talented to give up defining moments.
Reigning champs Australia have had blips in this mission, however the prevailing power in world ladies’ cricket took control after opener Beth Mooney’s unbeaten 74 off 53 balls (9×4, 1×6) and Ashleigh Gardner’s 21-ball 29 aided post 156/6, a difficult all out on a sluggish pitch.
South Africa began their pursuit excessively sluggish and couldn’t supported late in the match as they were limited to 137/6. With 27 to get off the last six balls, Australia closed down with some assertion as Ashleigh Gardner, bowling off-turn, didn’t gave any boundaries with sharp handling on the field guaranteeing that.
Gardner was announced the Player-of-the-Competition (110 runs, 10 wickets) while Mooney was named the Player-of-the-Finals. It was Australia’s 13th white-ball World Cup title.
Australia were shocked in the semi-finals when India nearly pursued down the complete in what might have been a significant bombshell. In any case, setting up an good total and afterward getting tension on the other team is something they have done so often. That experience as dominating large matches is how the champs of five of the seven past T20 World Cups dealt with the finals.
Australia chose for bat on a Newlands pitch that played sluggish and South Africa, light in the wake of upstaging Britain in the semi-last, kept the batsman calm when they dug the ball in short or pulled back the length to bowl more slow. Anything pitched up, or too short was managed harshly.
A profound South Africa took the field. It was the country’s most memorable ICC World Cup last, while Marizanne Kapp was in tears as life partner Dane van Niekerk, a sureness in the Cup crew until her exclusion for bombing a fitness test, was passing up a great opportunity.
Australia made just 36/1 in the six powerplay overs after Alyssa Healy (18 – 20b), the more forceful of the openers, was foxed by a sluggish bouncer from Kapp, an abnormal hurl going directly to Nadine de Klerk at additional cover. The left-given Mooney saw through South Africa intends to get her captured by a ring of off-side defenders, however captain Sune Luus pivoted her bowlers and took off speed to limit her from the beginning.
Mooney heated up, hitting around speed of Kapp past cover and Ayabonga Khaka for mid fours. It was her 54 that gave Australia steadiness against India, and the 29-year-old showed her development, in any event, playing out a lady from pacer Shabnim Ismail in the 6th over, prior to moving forward scoring her third 50 runs of the competition, off 44 balls.
Ash Gardner hit a 21-ball 29, including two successive sixes off de Klerk, prior to holing out Cloe Tryon’s sluggish left-arm to Sune Luus at long off. However Grace Harris and Meg Lanning excessively tumbled to slow deliveries, South African bowlers didn’t bowl slow and more limited frequently enough.
South Africa’s team having a hard time however their expectations rose when opener Laura Wolvaardt (61 – 48b, 5×4, 3×6) and Chloe Tryon (25 – 23 b) raised a 55-run fourth wicket partnership. In any case, Laura, in full stream, fell leg before to Megan Schutt in the eighteenth over and Tryon followed two balls later, it was actually shades for South Africa.
“It’s pretty special from the group,” Meg said. “All teams came hard at us but super proud. It was about enjoying the process and do what we were doing. It was about keeping things simple when the pressure is on.”
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