In the main event of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, Australia Women defeated India Women in a one-sided contest, knocking them out of the competition.
With the defeat in this final group match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, the semi-final dream did not come true for the Indian team.
In this match played at Lord’s Cricket Ground, the Indian women team batted first and scored 170 runs losing 4 wickets in 20 overs.
Captain Harmanpreet Kaur top scored with 56 runs while Smriti Mandana scored 38 runs and Shafali Verma and Jemima Rodriguez scored 34 and 34 runs respectively.
Australia’s Sophie Molyneux dismissed 2 players.
A huge and challenging target of 171 runs set by the Indian team was easily achieved by the Australian women’s team with a brilliant batting performance with the loss of 4 wickets.
Despite the pressure, the Australian batsmen played an aggressive game and played one game and their team won by 6 wickets.
On behalf of Australia, the star batsman Alyssa Perry played with 56 runs and Ashley Gardner remained unbeaten with 54 runs.
For India, Shri Charani took 2 wickets while Deepti Sharma and Renuka Singh bowled a wicket each.
With this defeat, the Indian team was eliminated from the competition, Australia maintained their winning streak in the tournament and secured their place in the semi-finals, while the South African team managed to advance to the semi-finals based on the better rating and points from Group One.
