INDW – 341-5 (48.3)

Player of the Match – Jemimah Rodrigues

2nd semi-final match between India Women vs Australia Women on 30 October, at DY Patil, Navi Mumbai.

Australian Women won the toss and opted to bat first. Alyssa Healy and Phoebe Litchfield opened for Australia. Litchfield looked in good touch. Healy got out early on Kranti Goud’s ball.

Ellyse Perry and Litchfield built a 155-run partnership. Amanjot Kaur bowled out Litchfield. Litchfield scored 119 runs in just 93 balls.

Australia had a strong hold on the game. Shree Charani bowled some good overs and got a wicket in her 7th over of Beth Mooney.  Shree got the 2nd wicket in her next over of Annabel Sutherland. Radha Yadav bowled out Ellyse Perry. Perry scored 77 runs. Tahlia McGrath got run out. India was back in the game, but Ashleigh Gardner once again changed the game in favour of Australia. Ashleigh also got run out after hitting back-to-back sixes to Radha Yadav in the 49th over. 

Deepti Sharma bowled the final over of the innings. Deepti took 2 wickets, and there was a runout by Amanjot in the final over. India pulls back the game. Australia was once looking for a total of 380+, all out on 338. 

India had momentum. Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana opened for India. Shafali hit 2 fours and got out in the 2nd over on Kim Garth’s ball. Smriti and Jemimah built a partnership, and both looked so good while batting. Smriti got out in the 9th over of Kim Garth’s over, but Smriti did not look satisfied with the decision to be caught behind. 

Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah both scored runs and maintained the required run rate. Healy dropped an easy catch of Jemimah, the first time Australia looked under pressure. Annabel Sutherland took Kaur’s wicket. Kaur scored 89 runs. Deepti Sharma scored 24 runs and was batting with positive intent, but got run out.

Sutherland dropped an easy catch of Jemimah; Jemi got a 2nd life in the match. Richa scored quick runs and got out on Sutherland’s ball. Richa scored 26 runs in 16 balls. Amanjot scored the winning runs. Jemimah Rodrigues scored 127 runs in 134 balls. Jemimah not only scored runs but also held the pressure of a knockout match.  

• Australia women won the toss and choose to bat first
• Australia women won the T20 World Cup for the fifth time by Defeat the India Women by 85 runs in the ICC Women T20 World Cup Final
• Alyssa Healy (75) got the man of the match award
• Beth Mooney got the Man of the Series Award
• Megan Schutt takes 4 Wickets by giving just 18 runs in 3.1 overs

On Sunday at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia defeated India by 85 runs. And won the trophy of ICC Women T20 World Cup for the fifth time. Australia Women won the toss and chose to Batting First. And Australian batsman gave a great start to the Australia team. Alyssa Healy (75) and Beth Mooney (78)* scored 115 runs together for the 1st wicket. With the help of this partnership, the Australia team gave the target to India of 185 runs.

Whereas, In chasing the Indian openers unable to give the good start to the team and lose their 1st wicket at just 2 runs. After that except Deepti Sharma (33), nobody played a good inning and India lose their all wickets at just 99 runs. Australia won the T20 world cup for the fifth time and against India in the finals, her team records win for the third time.   

Scorecard:

Australia Women                                                                         184 – 4 (20 Overs)

Extras – 4 (lb0, b1, nb1, w2, p0)

Did not Bat

Sophie Molineux, Jess Jonassen, Georgia Wareham, Delissa Kimmince, Megan Schutt

India Women                                                                             99 – 10 (19.1 Overs)

Extras – 5 (lb0, b0, nb0, w5, p0)

India got all west indies out on 140 runs, the highest wickets by Mohammed Shami got 2-2 wickets, Bumrah and Chahal got 2-2 wickets and Pandya, Yadav got one wicket, due to which India would once again make their name.