Dominant Australia beat England in T20 World Cup final
By Ian Chadband
Australia's Beth Mooney made a half-century to help power Australia to a T20 World Cup triumph. -AP
Australia's cricket women are back on top of the world again, annexing the T20 World Cup in glorious fashion for a seventh time by outclassing hosts England in the final in front of a sell-out crowd at their Lord's home.
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Sophie Molineux's side roared to a wholly one-sided seven-wicket victory on Sunday (Monday AEST) as a brilliant century partnership from Beth Mooney and Phoebe Litchfield turned their pursuit of England's 4-150 into a cakewalk in front of 30,000 largely gloomy and silent home fans.
Opener Mooney, Australia's all-time leading scorer in this format, was magnificent again, powering to 64 off 49 balls before they breezed to their target on 3-153 with 17 balls to spare.
Mooney and Litchfield, who hit 48 off 35 balls including two glorious sixes, one which was switch-hit dazzlingly, put on exactly 100 for the second wicket, bringing up their century stand off 66 balls and effectively killing all English hope.
It ends a rare spell without a global trophy in either the 50-over or 20-over game for Australia, who demonstrated all their old mastery, bowling with great discipline, fielding with immense sharpness and batting with enterprise and vigour.
Once again, they were simply in another class to the hosts, whose record in seven white-ball World Cup finals is England 0 Australia 7. It was also the first time England had lost a home World Cup final.
