Australia Wins 7th Women T20 World Cup With 7-Wicket Victory Over England

Mooney And Litchfield Help Australia's Run Chase

Australia's batting put in an excellent performance chasing down 151. The Australian innings began slowly when they lost their opener, Georgia Voll to Lauren Bell in the second over but the experience of Mooney and Litchfield stabilised the innings.

Mooney worked the ball around nicely while finding the boundary whenever she could, while Litchfield was more aggressive taking on the England attack and playing big shots straight down the ground and over mid-wicket to ensure Australia reached 62 for one after the powerplay - the second-highest powerplay score in a knockout match in the Women's T20 World Cup, behind only their own 63 for two against the West Indies earlier in the competition.

The pair kept their cool and pushed Australia beyond 100 by the eleventh over before Charlie Dean had Litchfield lbw for 48 and it brought Ellyse Perry to the crease. Mooney had the chance to score her half-century off the next over, reaching her ninth T20 World Cup fifty from 38 balls.

Mooney added twelve off Freya Kemp's over and continued her aggressive approach until she was dismissed by Sophie Ecclestone for 64 in the sixteenth over. She brought Ashleigh Gardner to the crease and it was Perry who would hit the winning runs along with Gardner, with seventeen balls left in the match.

Sciver-Brunt And Kemp Lead England Innings

Australia restricted England to 150 for four in the final. Captain Nat Sciver-Brunt continued to impress with her half century in the match, with Amy Jones scoring seven, Danni Wyatt-Hodge eight, Alice Capsey 23 runs but her dismissal left England 67 for three.

With another wicket, Heather Knight for two, England were now 70 for four and Sciver-Brunt had a job on her hands after she struck a half century and Freya Kemp scored 44 off 28 balls. They added 80 runs together in fifty-five balls and had thirteen runs off the final over to put England on 150 runs.