2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 final
Event | 2018 Women's World Twenty20 | ||||||||
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Australia won by eight wickets | |||||||||
Date | 24 November 2018 | ||||||||
Venue | 2020 → |
The 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final was a
After winning the
Route to the final
Group stage
Australia were drawn in Group B, along with India, Ireland, New Zealand and Pakistan.[1] They started their campaign against Pakistan; Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney shared a 72-run partnership for the first wicket, and each were eventually dismissed for 48 runs to help Australia to a score of 165 for five. Australia utilised their bowlers, described by ESPNcricinfo's Karthik Krishnaswamy as "a varied and accurate attack with three seam options and three different spin options," to restrict Pakistan to 113 runs, granting Australia a 52-run victory.[2] In their second match, against Ireland, Australia took five wickets for sixteen runs after the completion of the powerplay to help limit their opponents to a score of 93 for six. In reply, Healy scored the fastest half-century in Women's World Twenty20 history, and the second-fastest in all women's Twenty20 Internationals, taking 21 balls to reach her fifty. Australia chased down their target with more than half of their overs remaining, to win by nine wickets.[3]
After an opening partnership of 71 in the third match of the group against New Zealand, Australia then struggled a little; Alex Malcolm of ESPNcricinfo described that New Zealand had managed to "expose some vulnerabilities in the powerful Australian line-up".[4] Healy scored 53 runs from 38 balls, but Australia lost seven wickets, and needed a late innings score of 29 runs from Rachael Haynes to help them reach 153. In response, New Zealand lost their first three wickets cheaply, falling to 13 for three. Suzie Bates scored 48 runs, but ultimately three wickets for Megan Schutt meant that New Zealand were bowled out for 120 runs, meaning Australia won by 33 runs.[4] In their final group game, Australia faced India. Scores of 83 from Smriti Mandhana and 43 from Harmanpreet Kaur propelled India to a score of 167 for eight. Late in the India innings, Healy and Schutt collided, resulting in a mild concussion for Healy which meant that she was not able to bat during Australia's innings. Elyse Villani opened the innings with Mooney, but against a spin dominated bowling attack, Australia struggled to score runs. Ellyse Perry top-scored with 39 runs, but economical bowling from Anuja Patil and Radha Yadav saw Australia bowled out for 119, their first loss of the competition. As a result, Australia finished second in the group, behind India, and faced the winner of Group A in the semi-finals.[5]
England were placed in Group A, alongside Bangladesh, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies.[1] They were due to open their campaign against Sri Lanka, but the match was abandoned without any play being possible due to heavy rain, so each team was awarded one point (compared to two points for a win).[6] In their second match, against Bangladesh, England limited their opponents to 76 for nine, helped by Kirstie Gordon who took three wickets. In their reply, England lost both openers early, but runs from Amy Jones helped them reach 55 for three before the rain arrived. A lengthy delay ensued, but on the resumption of play England were set a revised target of 64. They scored the additional nine runs they needed from three balls to win by seven wickets.[7]
Against South Africa, England's bowlers provided the platform for victory.
Semifinals
Australia faced the West Indies in the first of the semi-finals, which were played as a double-header.[12] The West Indies won the toss and asked the Australians to bat first. They lost Mooney early on, but Healy scored 46 runs at more than a-run-a-ball and shared a fifty run partnership with Meg Lanning. Lanning batted patiently to score 31 runs, while a late flurry from Haynes pushed Australia to their total of 142 for five. In response, the West Indies "[crumbled] in the face of sustained pressure" and could only score 71 runs; Stafanie Taylor was the top-scorer with 16 runs, while Perry, Ashleigh Gardner and Delissa Kimmince each took two wickets for Australia.[13] In the second semi-final, India batted first against England. Quick scoring from Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues helped India reach 89 for two, but they subsequently lost their remaining eight wickets for 23 runs. England's spin bowlers, Sophie Ecclestone, Heather Knight and Gordon did the damage, taking seven wickets between them, along with three run outs. In their chase, neither of England's openers made significant contributions, but a third-wicket partnership of 92 runs between Jones and Sciver propelled England to victory with 17 balls left.[14]
Build up
Australia were widely considered the favourites coming into the tournament.[15][16][17][1] Lisa Sthalekar, a former Australian captain, was more cautious, claiming that "you can’t say one country is the favourite", as there "are probably two or three teams that could potentially win the trophy."[18] After similar routes to the final, Australia were still rated as favourites in the buildup to the match. Annesha Ghosh of ESPNcricinfo suggested that England suffered from "unpredictability as a fielding unit" and had suffered from "an overall lacklustre performance with the bat from the line-up through the tournament."[19]
At least one of Australia and England had been in each of the five previous Women's World Twenty 20 Finals; in the inaugural 2009 tournament, England were champions, but Australia won each of the next three competitions. In Australia's 2012 and 2014 victories, they beat England in the final. England were the reigning Women's Cricket World Cup champions, having won the 50-over tournament the previous year.[19] Both teams chose unchanged teams from their semi-finals.[20]
Match
Summary
The final was played under floodlights at the
England's captain, Knight, won the toss and chose to bat first, suggesting that it looked a "better wicket than the semi-final. Not as slow as the last game."
Wyatt added five more runs in the following over, taking her score to 43, before being caught by Lanning off the bowling of Gardner.[20] Two overs later, Lanning opted to review an lbw decision against Winfield which had been given not out. Neither the bowler nor the wicket-keeper were convinced, but Australia's captain pressed on with the appeal, which revealed Winfield was out. The next ball, Wareham bowled Dunkley,[31] reducing England to 74 for six.[21] England's scoring was limited over the following four overs: they only added ten more runs and lost another wicket; Shrubsole edged the ball to Perry, having scored five runs.[20] England's captain, Knight, remained at the crease, but after hitting her first six of the innings to long on, she was out the next ball, caught by Wareham at mid-off.[31] England lost their final two wickets in the last over, and were bowled out for 105. Only Wyatt and Knight reached double figures for England.[21]
In their reply, Australia started quickly; in the second over, bowled by Shrubsole, Healy hit three boundaries.[31] She continued to score quickly, but was bowled by Ecclestone in the fifth over for 22.[32] Despite being her lowest total of the tournament,[30] Healy had scored at quicker than a-run-a-ball and had contributed the majority of the 29-run opening partnership.[21] Mooney added eight more runs to her own score before she was caught behind by Jones for 14 runs. Writing in The Guardian, Raf Nicholson suggested that "even at 44-2 ... Australia seemed largely in control of the situation."[32] Lanning initially out-scored her batting partner, scoring "two classy boundaries in the 10th over",[33] but then Gardner took over. She struck three sixes in her innings of 33* from 26 deliveries to help Australia to victory by eight wickets with 29 balls remaining.[25] Her all-round performance earned her the player of the match award.[21]
Scorecard
- Toss: England won the toss and elected to bat first
- Result: Australia won by eight wickets[25]
Batsman | Method of dismissal | Runs | Balls | Strike rate |
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Danielle Wyatt
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c Meg Lanning b Ashleigh Gardner | 43 | 37 | 116.21 |
Tammy Beaumont | c Elyse Villani b Megan Schutt | 4 | 9 | 44.44 |
Amy Jones † | run out | 4 | 4 | 100.00 |
Natalie Sciver
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lbw b Ellyse Perry | 1 | 3 | 33.33 |
Heather Knight * | c Georgia Wareham b Ashleigh Gardner | 25 | 28 | 89.28 |
Lauren Winfield
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lbw b Georgia Wareham | 6 | 9 | 66.66 |
Sophia Dunkley | b Georgia Wareham | 0 | 1 | 0.00 |
Anya Shrubsole | c Ellyse Perry b Ashleigh Gardner | 5 | 11 | 45.45 |
Danielle Hazell | lbw b Megan Schutt | 6 | 9 | 66.66 |
Sophie Ecclestone | run out | 4 | 6 | 66.66 |
Kirstie Gordon | not out | 1 | 1 | 100.00 |
Extras | (2 bye, 1 leg byes, 3 wides) | 6 | ||
Totals | (19.4 overs, 5.33 runs per over) | 105 |
Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Economy
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Sophie Molineux | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 7.66 |
Megan Schutt | 3.4 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 3.54 |
Ellyse Perry | 3 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 7.66 |
Delissa Kimmince | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3.33 |
Georgia Wareham | 3 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 3.66 |
Ashleigh Gardner | 4 | 0 | 22 | 3 | 5.50 |
Batsman | Method of dismissal | Runs | Balls | Strike rate |
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Alyssa Healy † | b Sophie Ecclestone | 22 | 20 | 110.00 |
Beth Mooney | c Amy Jones † b Danielle Hazell | 14 | 15 | 93.33 |
Ashleigh Gardner | not out | 33 | 26 | 126.92 |
Meg Lanning * | not out | 28 | 30 | 93.33 |
Extras | (2 leg byes, 7 wides) | 9 | ||
Totals | (15.1 overs, 6.98 runs per over) | 106/2 | ||
Did not bat: Elyse Villani, Rachael Haynes, Ellyse Perry, Sophie Molineux, Delissa Kimmince, Georgia Wareham, Megan Schutt |
Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Economy
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Natalie Sciver
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1.1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2.57 |
Anya Shrubsole | 3 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 10.00 |
Sophie Ecclestone | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 3.00 |
Danielle Hazell | 3 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 6.33 |
Kirstie Gordon | 3 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 10.00 |
Heather Knight | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10.00 |
Match officials
- On-field umpires: Shaun George and Langton Rusere
- TV umpire: Gregory Brathwaite
- Match referee: Richie Richardson
- Reserve umpire: Nitin Menon
Key
- * – Captain
- † – Wicket-keeper
- c Fielder – Indicates that the batsman was dismissed by a catch by the named fielder
- b Bowler – Indicates which bowler gains credit for the dismissal
- lbw – Indicates the batsman was dismissed leg before wicket
Aftermath
Five finalists were named in the team of the tournament; Jones, Shrubsole and Gordon from England along with Healy and Perry from Australia.[34] Healy, who was the leading run-scorer in the competition, was also named as player of the tournament,[35] and later the ICC Women's Twenty20 International Player of the Year.[36]
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