Alyssa Healy's majestic 170 powers Australia to World Cup glory
Alyssa Healy's magnificent 170 controlled Australia to a record-expanding seventh World Cup title with an agreeable 71-run prevail upon reigning champs England at the Hagley Oval on Sunday. Nat Sciver's counter-going after 148* off 121 went to no end however as none of different hitters exploited their begins to fuel England's overwhelming pursue.
Records fell in overflow as Healy sent the English bowlers on a cowhide chase in Christchurch while delivering the most elevated ever individual score in a World Cup last, men's or alternately ladies', to set up Australia's title-securing 356/5 subsequent to being placed in to bat. With individual opener Rachael Haynes (68), she put on 160 to keep the most noteworthy substitute the historical backdrop of World Cup finals for any wicket. Healy is currently the main player in Women's World Cups to enlist consecutive hundreds of years in knockouts. When England could view as a far beyond her in the 46th over, Healy (509) had jumped Haynes (497) to likewise turn into the first to enlist 500 runs in a solitary release of the competition accordingly, as a matter of course resetting the record that had a place with Debby Hockley (456) beginning around 1997 and her Australian bad habit skipper since the fourteenth over.
That was when Haynes cut and drove youthful offspinner Charlie Dean for a few limits to flag a switch of gears. Britain started well with the ball, with the veteran sets of Katherine Brunt and Anya Shrubsole getting the ball to swing to keep a beware of the openers' scoring. Australia just had 37 from their powerplay and the initial fifty came just an over already.
Constrained into additional bowling changes for a frantic forward leap, England previously consumed a survey on Healy - then on 30 off 40 - and afterward saw two possibilities being put down in about three conveyances in a solitary Kate Cross over. Haynes, dropped by Wyatt on 47, raised her 50 years before the finish of the over - soon after Sciver's late response to a clear take at midwicket gave Healy a respite on 41. She contacted her fifty with the first of the consecutive limits in Cross' next over similarly as Australia went past 100. The pair took only six additional overs to make that 150, resetting the organization record, as Dean and Brunt copped greater discipline from Healy.
That constrained Heather Knight's hand again however the bowling change this time brought some alleviation. Ecclestone had Haynes lobbing the principal bundle of her new spell to Tammy Beaumont on 68. The festivals were brief as Healy held hands with the recently elevated Beth Mooney to put on one more century association that came at better compared to run-a-ball. Mooney had her influence flawlessly, contributing 62 off only 47 to not just stay aware of the rhythm Healy set however take it bit higher.
Healy raised her run-a-ball 100 in the 35th over and the pair went on a limit hitting binge from there on to take more time to 260/1 by the 42nd over. The most terrible, presumably, was on the way for England as Healy got eight limits in the following three overs that went for 18, 19 and 18 from Sciver, Eccelstone and Cross separately. Australia were 315/1 before the finish of 45th.
Shrubsole got three late wickets - denying Healy a likely shot at a World Cup twofold, stopping Meg Lanning's firecrackers early, and having Mooney gotten on 62 - to hold Australia back from detonating further. In any case, setting them a record most noteworthy pursue of 357 to guard their crown was to the point of overpowering England.
Alyssa Healy's 170 is the most elevated ever individual score in a World Cup last - - Men's or alternately Women's
Wyatt, who likewise had a possibility of equalling Healy's accomplishment following her profession best 129 in the elimination round, was bowled through the bat-cushion hole by Megan Schutt in her second. Another sharp inswinger caught Beaumont plumb LBW on 26-ball 27 inside the seventh over. Schutt accepted she had guaranteed the third - Sciver - in the equivalent over yet the DRS replays showed the ball swinging an excessive lot of this chance to serenely pass the leg-stump. With the request from in excess of 7 an over right from the beginning of their pursuit, England had their fifty up by the eighth over and Heather Knight added three limits to it in the last powerplay over when Darcie Brown doled out leg-side gifts.
Sciver pulled Alana King to the fence for the initial six of the last in the leggie's first finished, and dispatched Tahlia McGrath to the fence two times in her second. Australia's festivals were stopped when Sciver utilized a survey to save herself from the LBW call, however saw her captain beaten by King's twist one ball later to leave for 25-ball 26. Britain slipped a touch further when Jess Jonassen broke the sprouting association of 43 among Sciver and Amy Jones (20), who additionally scored at more than run a ball yet sufficiently not to have an effect. Moreover with Sophia Dunkley (23) who, after a promising 50-run association off 45, was bowled around her legs by King in a precise replay of her excusal from their competition opener.
Notwithstanding their expanding wickets segment, England would have really fared generally better compared to Australia's scoring, and had Sciver's ambitious thump to thank for it. They were coming up on the 200 by the 30th over however King and Healy consolidated for a sharp befuddling to eliminate Brunt for 1. Eccelstone and Cross' takeoffs six balls separated authoritatively uncovered England's tail before long. Sciver however stood firm in the midst of the vestiges, and postponed the unavoidable with a 65-run organization, with No. 10 Dean to save Australia under control for another nine overs. The English bad habit skipper then doled out a last callback to their cooperative conflict by scoring up one more century against the Ashes rivals, additionally her second of the competition.
Debris Gardner, kept down until the 40th over, struck in her second to break the association and rush England's exit. She had Dean chipping one directly to Jonassen at in reverse point prior to pouching the catch when Shrubsole holed out, welcoming drapes on England's battle.
Brief scores: Australia 356/5 in 50 overs (Alyssa Healy 170, Rachael Haynes 68, Beth Mooney 62; Anya Shrubsole 3-46) beat England 285 all out in 43.4 overs (Nat Sciver 148*; Jess Jonassen 3-57, Alana King 3-64) by 71 runs.