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Tahlia McGrath plays amid Covid drama as Australia win Games cricket gold

Posted on August 7, 2022 by Admin

All-rounder McGrath tests positive on morning of Edgbaston final
Australia win by nine runs to claim first women’s cricket gold

Australia’s all-conquering women’s cricket team continued their dominance of the sport after edging out India in the Commonwealth Games final at Edgbaston, but not before Covid-19 has served up a dose of drama.

Meg Lanning’s side secured a nine-run win to claim the first Commonwealth gold awarded to women in a tight match in which India threatened to pull off a remarkable run chase right to the death.

Australia beat India by six wickets: ICC Women’s World Cup – as it happened

Posted on March 19, 2022 by Admin

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.