A disciplined bowling efficiency has earned Australia a second successive victory within the Girls’s T20 World Cup, a 60-run win over New Zealand.
The defending champions are actually the one unbeaten crew in Group A and might all however safe their passage by beating Pakistan in Dubai on Friday (Saturday 1am, AEDT).
Australia had been finally upset with posting 8-148, however it was ample in opposition to a New Zealand aspect they’ve now crushed 10 instances in succession.
Having been 1-79 on the midway mark, Australia scored 69 runs for the lack of seven wickets within the second 10 overs.
Beth Mooney top-scored, following up her 43 within the opening win over Sri Lanka with a 32-ball 40. However the center and decrease order folded.
“We might have been smarter with the bat on the finish, however we got here out rather well with the ball and I am actually pleased with that,” skipper Alyssa Healy mentioned.
“Megan Schutt has been fantastic, however I assumed the entire assault tonight was unbelievable.”
Schutt set the tone in opposition to New Zealand, taking a wicket within the third over when she clear bowled Georgia Plimmer (4). That made her the only file holder for many wickets in T20 World Cups with 44.
She returned halfway by means of the innings to say her forty fifth, the damaging Amelia Kerr (29 off 31), then completed the match within the final over to finish the innings with 3-3 off 20 balls and 6-15 within the event to this point.
When Kerr went, the Kiwis had been already chasing 10 an over, a near-impossibility in opposition to Australia’s assault on a sluggish, used observe. Sophie Molineux (2-15) had simply accounted for Suzie Bates (20 off 27) and a repeat of skipper Sophie Devine’s 36-ball unbeaten 57 of their boilover win in opposition to India was New Zealand’s final hope.
However she by no means bought going as wickets fell on the different finish together with two in two balls for Annabel Sutherland (3-21). The Kiwis’ final 9 wickets fell for 34 runs, with Devine ninth out after making seven off 15.
“After we had been bowling we strayed a bit of too removed from the stumps,” Devine mentioned.
“Within the discipline we had been a bit of sloppy. With the bat we have to play some extra brave photographs. We wanted to have a very good begin and we let the run fee creep up an excessive amount of.”
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Australia, which switched in Grace Harris for Darcie Brown, gained the toss and elected to bat. Healy, having survived two early opinions, cracked two fours within the third over and her crew had been up-and-running. After 31 balls they had been 0-41.
However a collection of batters bought in, and bought out. Healy skied Rosemary Mair for 26 off 20 balls, Mooney was caught at mid-off and Ellyse Perry, having been dropped on 4, misinterpret Kerr’s googly to be bowled for 30 off 24 balls.
Kerr adopted up by bowling Harris the identical manner subsequent ball, placing a smile again on her face after her good catch to dismiss Phoebe Litchfield for one was controversially judged to have been grounded on TV replay.
Thereafter Australia, searching for speedy runs, misplaced wickets shortly. The center-order is chock-full of all-rounders however none reached double figures as Kerr (4-26), Brooke Halliday (2-16) and Mair (2-22) chipped away.
Whereas the rating might not have been the 160-170 that at one stage regarded possible, it was the very best of the six matches performed to this point at Sharjah and proved greater than sufficient.
AAP
