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Meg Lanning’s champion Australian aspect have received one other world crown, efficiently defending their ladies’s T20 World Cup title with an emphatic 19-run victory over hosts South Africa in Cape City.
Participant of the match Beth Mooney’s unbeaten 53-ball 74 did most to place the stress on the South Africans of their first-ever World Cup ultimate look on Sunday because the Australians, opting to bat, amassed 6-156 at Newlands.
Then Lanning’s group bowled and fielded with scientific effectivity to largely at all times keep in management, as they ended up proscribing the Proteas to 6-137 to carry the T20 world title for the third time in a row and the sixth time within the final seven editions.
Participant of the Event Ashleigh Gardner delivered the stand-out all-round efficiency on the balmy afternoon in entrance of a sell-out crowd of 13,000 handy Lanning a memorable win in her 100th T20I as captain.
Gardner first helped propel Australia along with her 21-ball 29 after which defended 26 off the sport’s ultimate over to complete with 4-0-20-1 and guarantee her aspect accomplished a three-peat in 20-over World Cups.
Amongst a tremendous mixed effort from the Australian bowlers, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown and Jess Jonassen additionally every took a key wicket because the Australians received a 13th world title in all in white-ball cricket.
Australia did not notch up the victory at a canter, although. Laura Wolvaardt’s 48-ball 61 and Shabnim Ismail’s 4-1-26-2 impressed romantic hopes of an historic win for the first-time World Cup finalists South Africa.
Opener Wolvaardt had put the hosts inside 48 runs of a win along with her third straight fifty that anchored a 35-ball 55 partnership with Chloe Tryon.
However Schutt trapped Wolvaardt lbw within the 17th over, leaving an excessive amount of to do for Tryon, who fell for 25 off 23.
Earlier, Mooney’s quickfire 15-ball 33 stand with No.6 Ellyse Perry (seven off 5 balls) ensured the defending champions scored 46 within the dying overs.
The left-handed opener’s clutch innings, paying homage to her match-winning fifties within the finals of the 2020 T20 World Cup, the 2022 ODI World Cup and the Commonwealth Video games ultimate, once more proved indispensable, regardless that she feared she might have scored too slowly .
“I used to be most likely a bit bit too arduous on myself in the midst of that innings,” mentioned Mooney, who had at one level hobbled to 30 off 31 balls.
“I walked off pondering we hadn’t fairly acquired sufficient on the board, however by no means decide a wicket till either side have performed.
“It was bloody powerful on the market however I feel everyone did a terrific job.”
The Australian innings ended with a double-wicket 20th over from Ismail, who turned the main wicket-taker in ladies’s T20 World Cup historical past along with her 42nd strike within the event.
Gardner, promoted to Lanning’s regular No.three slot, had marshalled Australia from 1-36 within the powerplay after Alyssa Healy had been dismissed for a 20-ball 18 to double that run tally by the midway mark.
Gardner’s 41-ball 46-run second-wicket stand with Mooney, broke upon the introduction of Tryon because the 25-year-old holed out to long-off.
Tryon then took an excellent catch at deep midwicket off a Lanning pull to scale back the opposition to 4-122 with 17 balls left within the innings.
Australia amassed 34 off these deliveries. Mooney, who introduced up her second successive half-century of this World Cup, off 44 balls, alone made 25 in that tally.
“It is a particular group, not simply the gamers however the assist workers who put a lot work in behind the scenes,” mentioned Lanning, as she celebrated her seventh World Cup win in each white-ball codecs.
-AAP
