Australia is celebrating their fifth Women T20 world Cup title played on International Women’s Day.
Women’s T20 World Cup
final was held at the Melboume Cricket Ground between four time champions Team
Australia and Team India. In Australia it was the biggest ever crowded women’s
sporting event with crowd of 86,174 fans in Melboume Cricket Stadium.
Australia won the toss
and Captain Meg Lanning decided to bat first. Opener Healy won the title of
Player of the match by scoring 79 runs from 39 balls including fifty in 30
balls. Beth Mooney won the title of Player of the tournament scored 78 runs in
final match.
Australia set the
target of 184 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. In chase of 184 all Team India got
out at 99 runs. Harmanpreet kaur performed well but it was not her day and she
was caught by Jonassen.
Meg Lenning
Australian Captain declared this tournament best of the previous four titles. Player
of the tournament Beth Mooney said, “ It’s probably something I’ll look back on
in 10 years’ time, for me and everyone there it’ll probably be one of those
things where you say: ‘were you there when we broke the record for the most
watched female game in Australia?’.”Source: DAWN
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