MELBOURNE: The Twenty20 World Cup culminated on Sunday with hosts Australia beating India by 85 runs in front of a record crowd for a women's cricket match in Melbourne.
- Australia's star-studded team went into the tournament carrying the weight of expectations on home soil as four-time winners and defending champions.
"There was definitely some tough times through there but we stuck together as a group, we really just had each other's back the whole time and it's just a great group to be a part of," said Lanning.- The popularity of women's cricket has been steadily on the rise, with the tournament widely seen as taking it to a new level.
To counter this, Cricket Australia pledged a further US$600,000 to ensure parity if Australia were to win. While she misfired in the final, her exploits propelled her to the top of the ICC T20 batting rankings, only the second Indian after Mithali Raj to achieve the feat. "You'd hope now there is going to be a rule change... and moving forward, no other team will have to experience going out of a World Cup purely because of rain," said"gutted" England skipper Heather Knight.
After struggling in their opening three games, they put together an imposing 150 for 3 against Pakistan, their highest score in T20s, before rain ruined hopes of a maiden World Cup win.
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