Alyssa Healy soars to the highest score ever in a World Cup final as Australia beat England by 71 runs to lift the trophy
4th over: Australia 11-0 (Alyssa Healy 5, Rachael Haynes 6)
It’s a bit of a cat and mouse game going on so far - the English bowlers are mostly bowling very good line and length and the Australian batters are just waiting on the opportunities for the slightly looser balls to pounce on. It’s a very good over from Shrubsole, just one from it.
Continue reading...*Local time. So half an hour to the coin toss if the rain stays away. It’ll be 43 overs per side. Promising.
The umpires are wandering around the middle in their fetching pink cagoules. It looks blustery so hopefully the rain blows on through. 4.08pm local time is the cut off to get a game in.
Continue reading...Australia are through to the Women’s World Cup semi-finals after a thrilling record run chase saw them squeak past India’s 7-277 in Auckland.
Beth Mooney produced last-over heroics and Meg Lanning led from the front, scoring a superb 97 to give Australia a rare win at the All Blacks’ “house of pain”, Eden Park.
Continue reading...Tournament favourites chase down a World Cup-record 278 for victory, their fifth out of five in this year’s event
4th over: India 15-1 (Yastika Bhatia 2, Shafali Verma 1)
Brown looks to make up for her ordinary first over and she does immediately, with the big wicket of Mandhana, bringing Yastika Bhatia to the crease. Bhatia uses the first ball to get her eye in, before a well run two off the next ball to get off the mark quickly. Brown gives away the first extra of the match with a wide, followed by a dot ball and then another wide. This has shades of Australia’s series against India late last year when they just couldn’t stop bowling wides. Hopefully Brown has got that out of her system now.
Continue reading...Hello and welcome to the Basin Reserve in Wellington (by way of a sofa in South London) for this OBO of Australia v West Indies. This is the 14th match of what is proving to be a thrilling 2022 Women’s World Cup. The big question is, can anyone stop the Aussie juggernaut?
Meg Lanning’s side have swept away all comers in this format for the past few years and are three from three so far in the tournament, sitting satisfyingly atop the table whilst those below grapple it out.
Continue reading...5th over: Australia 14-0 (Alyssa Healy 6, Rachael Haynes 8)
Jess Kerr is finding some beautiful length this over and Haynes is doing her best to dig the ball out, but hasn’t been able to get it past the field early in the over. Kerr maintains her line and length and finishes with a valuable maiden.
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