- Australia 184-4; India 99 | Australia win by 85 runs
- Alyssa Healy (75) and Beth Mooney (78 no) star for hosts
Ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup final on Sunday, various of its participants described it as the “biggest game” that women’s cricket had seen. In literal terms that turned out to be true, with 86,174 spectators filling the Melbourne Cricket Ground to come remarkably close to the all-time crowd record for women’s sport of 90,185. The size of the occasion also decided the result: Australia rose to it, India were overwhelmed by it.
Australian openers Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney lit up the MCG after winning the toss to score at 10 runs per over through a partnership of 115. Australia ended up with 184 at four wickets down, before India lost big-hitting opener Shafali Verma with the second ball of the innings before subsiding to 99 all out.
Written by Geoff Lemon at the MCG
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