MELBOURNE: A rampant Australia emphatically swept to their fifth women's Twenty20 World Cup title Sunday (March 8), crushing India by 85 runs in front of more than 86,000 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Australia's captain Meg Lanning with teammates celebrate with the winning trophy of Twenty20 women's cricket World Cup after beating India in the final at the Melbourne Cricket Club on Sunday . - AFP
India could only manage 99 all out to end a 17-day tournament that reinforced Australia's dominance of the sport, having now won five of the seven World Cups so far. They were targeting the official world record for a women's sporting fixture -- set at the 1999 football World Cup final when 90,185 watched the United States beat China in California -- but fell just short.
India had upset Meg Lanning's team by 17 runs in the opening game of the tournament, but they never got a look in on Sunday. They reached 91 without loss at the halfway mark, with Healy then hitting three successive sixes off Shikha Pandey who was taken for 23 in the over.At the other end, Mooney quietly went about her business to bring up her ninth T20 half-century before three late wickets fell.
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