Australia women's cricket team win gold medal in Commonwealth Games

Australia women’s cricket team
have continued their domination in cricket as now they won the final of the
Commonwealth Games 2022 against India on Sunday (August 7) in Birmingham. 
<img src="https://api.bdcrictime.com/ashleigh-gardner-happy-07_08_2022.jpg">With this, Australia, the current
holders of the 50-overs and T20 World Cups, added the one achievement they
lacked - a gold medal at a multi-sports tournament - to reinforce their
standing as the best team in the world.
Batting first, Australia lost
Alyssa Healy early but then Beth Mooney and captain Meg Lanning put on a 74-run
partnership to give the team a good foundation and after their wicket, the
run-rate slowed down, also the other batsmen failed to score big. Ashleigh Gardner
(25*) and Rachael Haynes (18*) played two cameo innings to help Australia
setting a fighting total of 161 runs in 20 overs losing 8 wickets.
Mooney was the highest scorer for
Australia with 61 runs off 41 balls. Lanning scored 36 runs. Renuka Singh and
Sneh Rana both took two wickets each for India. 
Australia took the all-important
wickets of two openers- Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma early in the innings,
when India came to chase the 162-run target. Then Jemimah Rodrigues and
Harmanpreet Kaur made a solid 96-run partnership to give India a fighting chase
till 15th over of the match. But Gardner changed the momentum of the
match by taking these set batsmen and India lost their last 8 wickets inside
just 34 runs which saw them bundled out for 152 runs with 3 balls left.
Kaur and Jemimah scored 65 runs
and 33 runs respectively for India. Gardner was the standout bowler for Australian
women’s team with 3 wickets. Megan Schutt also took two wickets.

ICC announces Women's T20 World Cup 2020 Team of the Tournament

At the end of the 8th edition of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the best team of the tournament comprising greatest performers of this edition.

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In the selected team, there are five cricketers included from the World Cup champion Australia, only one from runner-up India, four from semi-finalist England and one from other semi-finalist South Africa.

However, Shafali Verma from India makes the squad as a 12th man.

The ICC selected team is led by Australia skipper Meg Lanning who guided the team to the final with skilled captaincy and consistency with bat.She also led the team to win Australia's fifth World Cup.

Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney were the two openers of Australia who scored fifties against Bangladeshin the group stage. In the finals, the duo came up with a scuffle and finished the match in the first 10 overs. As a result, there was a lot of talk about Shefali Verma in India, but she could not make into the main XI of Team of the Tournament.

Pacer Megan Schutt and left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen are also in the squad from Australia.

India's Poonam Yadav has named in the team for his outstanding bowling throughout the whole tournament. She showed her skill with googly.

The remaining five places of the World Cup XI have been split between the other two teams in the semifinals. Laura Wolvaardt from South Africa is in the squad for the World Cup after losing to Australia in the semi-final.

And England have taken the remaining four places. In the top order, Nat Sciver and Heather Knight have got the benefit of delivering regular runs for England in the tournament. Sophie Ecclestone and Anya Shrubsole have claimed the bowling category in the team.

The team was selected by three former cricketers Ian Bishop, Anjum Chopra and Lisa Sthalekar. Their companions were journalist Raf Nicholson and ICC representative Holly Colvin.

ICC Team of the Tournament:

Alyssa Healy (wk), Beth Mooney, Nat Sciver, Heather Knight, Meg Lanning (c), Laura Wolvaardt, Jess Jonassen, Sophie Ecclestone, Anya Shrubsole, Megan Schutt, Poonam Yadav and Shafali Verma (12th man).

Australia clinch record fifth World Cup title

Australia have won back-to-back titles and for the fifth time in the women's T20 World Cup final beating India.

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With the help of Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney in batting and with the help of Megan Schutt and Jess Jonassen in bowling Australia showed completed dominance in the final of ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 on Sunday, March 8. Australia won by 85 runs and claimed their record fifth title in T20 World Cup.

Chasing the target of 185 runs, India were bundled out for just 99 runs in 19.1 overs. Earlier, Australia scored 184 runs for 4 wickets in the destined 20 overs.

In the dream of winning the title for the first time, India were shattered in front of a cannon of Australia bowlers. Except for Deepti Sharma, no one could fight against Aussie women. She took 2 wickets in the ball and scored 33 runs in batting.

Besides, Veda Krishnamurthy (19) and Richa Ghosh (18) tried to fight on the day of the failure of the Indian top order. But no one was able to stand in front of bowling in the fire of Megan Schutt and Jess Jonassen.

Schutt took 4 for 18 in 3.1 overs while Jonassen took 3 wickets for 20 runs in 4 overs.

Earlier on Sunday (March 8th), the Aussie team decided to bat at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). It didn't take long for the Australian women to prove that the decision was right.

Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney took the storm early in the batting. Two openers combined to score 115 runs on the scoreboard. Their terrific duo broke in 11.4 overs. Healy was dismissed by Radha Yadav for 75 runs off 39 balls with 7 fours and 5 sixes. Australian pacer Mitchell Starc left home series against South Africa to watch his wife's batting and she didn’t disappoint her husband at all.

Mooney kept pace in Aussie’s run rate despite losing her opening partner. Towards the end of the innings, she brought the team to a mammoth total. Her unbeaten 78-run innings of 54 balls was arranged with 10 fours.

In addition, skipper Meg Lanning (16), Ashley Gardner (2) and Rachael Haynes (4) added runs in the scoreboard. Nicola Carey was unbeaten on 5 runs.

This had been the first time India had played in the final of the women's T20 World Cup. Australia, on the other hand, is the fifth-time record champion. They won the hat-trick titles in 2010, 2012 and 2014. In the 2016, the title went to the women of the West Indies. However, it was brought back to Australia in 2018. England became the champions in the first edition of the Women's T20 World Cup in 2009.

Alyssa Healy was awarded Man of the Match and Beth Mooney had been named Player of the Tournament.

I just hate playing against the Indians: Australia pacer

India and Australia will play in the final of the women's T20 World Cup on Sunday, March 8. The two teams also faced each other in the opening match of the World Cup. Incidentally, the two teams are going to face each other in the final too.

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Australia lost to India in the first match. Australia have a great chance to win the World Cup on their own country soil. So the revenge in the final is in front of Australia. Australia started the mind game about 48 hours ago before the final.

Australia want to beat India to clinch the World Cup trophy as well as to take a revenge of the opening match of the World Cup. Apart from beating India and winning the World Cup.

Aussie paceman Megan Schutt didn’t want to bowl Indian opener Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana. She made such a request to captain Meg Lanning. But why?

Last month, Shafali hit four in Schutt’s first ball in the tri-nation series. And in the same over, Mandhana hit a big six too. They scored 16 runs in the first over of Schutt.

And so Schutt said,
<blockquote>“I just hate playing against the Indians. They hurt me. I can't forget that six in the tri-series. No one has ever hit such a big six in my career.”</blockquote>
"We definitely have some plans in place to stop the Indians," Megan Schutt said before the final. “But all I can say is I don't want to bowl them in the power play. Because both of them (Shafali-Mandhana) play me so easily.”

Megan Schutt becomes first woman to script two international hat-tricks

Australian fast bowler Megan Schutt has created history be becoming the first woman cricketer to claim two hat-tricks in international cricket. 

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In the third and final one-day international match against West Indies on Wednesday, Schutt was wicket less until the 9.3 overs of her spell.

But she blistered past the Caribbean's tail scalping three wickets in the remaining three balls of her final over dismissing Chinelle Henry, Karishma Ramharack and Afy Fletcher. She returned with the figure of 3 for 24 eventually.

West Indies woman were eventually bundled out for mere 180. While chasing 181, half centuries by opener Alyssa Healy (61) and captain Meg Lanning (58) helped Australia beat the hosts inside 32 overs of their innings.

The Aussies took the game by eight wickets in the third game of the five-match series.

It was the 11th hat-trick in women's ODI cricket. Schutt became the seventh Australian cricketer - male or female, to achieve the feat in the 50-over format.

The 26-year old Schutt registered her first hat-trick in a Twenty20 game against India in March last year. She then removed opener Smriti Mandhana and skipper Mithali Raj and Deepti Sharma at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
<blockquote>"It was good to actually take it all in the one over. It's kind of luck of the draw, it was the last over of the innings so you're either getting hit for six or getting wickets,"</blockquote>
Schutt told cricket.com.au.

"I just hoped for the best really, I know my back-of-the-hand slower ball is effective on wickets that turn a bit so I just looked to take as much pace off as I could," she added.

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