Georgia Wareham stars as Australia overcome Ellyse Perry injury to clinch semi-final spot
Beth Mooney made a well-paced half-century to provide Australia a base with the bat
02/03Result
18th Match, Group A, ICC Women's T20 World Cup at Melbourne, Mar 2 2020
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![Australia Women]( "Australia Women")
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![New Zealand Women]( "New Zealand Women")
151/7 (20 ov)
Player of the Match
02/03Result
18th Match, Group A, ICC Women's T20 World Cup at Melbourne, Mar 2 2020
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![Australia Women]( "Australia Women")
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![New Zealand Women]( "New Zealand Women")
151/7 (20 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
KJ Martin
37(18) 4x4 - 1x6
Control %66%
- Productive Shot
- slog shot
- 13 runs
- 1x4 - 1x6
Best performances - Bowlers
G Wareham
- O4
- M0
- R17
- W3
- Eco4.25
| 1W | ||||
| 1W | 1W | |||
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
M Schutt
- O4
- M0
- R28
- W3
- Eco7.00
| 1W | ||||
| 2W | ||||
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
Match Details
Toss
New Zealand Women , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
19.00 start, First Session 19.00-20.30, Interval 20.30-20.50, Second Session 20.50-22.20
Match days
2 March 2020 (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Australia Women 2, New Zealand Women 0
Scorecard Summary
AUSTRALIA WOMEN 155/5 (20 OVERS)
- Meg Lanning21 (17)
- Beth Mooney60 (50)
- Anna Peterson2/31 (4)
- Amelia Kerr1/22 (4)
NEW ZEALAND WOMEN 151/7 (20 OVERS)
- Katey Martin*37 (18)
- Sophie Devine31 (36)
- Megan Schutt3/28 (4)
- Georgia Wareham3/17 (4)
Scorer: Ranjith P
END OF OVER:20 | 15 Runs | NZ-W: 151/7 (5 runs required, RR: 7.55)
- Katey Martin37 (18b)
- Leigh Kasperek3 (4b)
- Ashleigh Gardner2-0-26-0
- Megan Schutt4-0-28-3
That concludes our coverage of this virtual quarter-final. Thanks for joining us, this is Ankur Dhawan signing off
Meg Lanning: Crunch game, we handled it really well. She (Beth Mooney) has been a really good player for a long time, we know her value. Wickets in hand allow you to go hard in the end, and we had two world-class players (Perry and Haynes) at the crease, which made a difference. I guess it took (Perry's injury) the extra pace option away from us. Haven't heard anything (about Perry's injury), it didn't look great, but hopefully she's alright. Goes a lot into managing players, unfortunately we've had a few injuries. We have full confidence, that Bangladesh game was a turning point. I think we showed that we are able to be calm under the pump, we have done the basics right which gives us confidence going into the semi-final
Sophie Devine: They got a few too many. You can always do things differently, in hindsight, cricket's an easy game. Wanted to hold Amelia back for the death overs. That last one was close to a no-ball but credit to Australia.
Georgia Wareham in the player of the match: Felt like I had a bit of confidence. I think they are really dangerous players - Devine, Bates and Green - happy to put my hand up. Pretty special to be in the semi-final, job's not done yet
Australia book themselves a semi-final berth. The margin of victory (4 runs) is a little deceptive, Australia seemed like the likely winners for most part. Martin's cameo adds a little more respectability to New Zealand's eventual total but the sluggish start left them too much to do, and none of their big match players really came to the party. Georgia Wareham was brilliant, she bowled the game's defining spell, picking up the wickets of Bates, Devine and Green to snuff the fight out of the chase.
19.6
6
Gardner to Martin, SIX, full toss angled across, it looked high but perhaps marginal, she shuffles and swings it away towards deep midwicket where the catch goes down and the ball land on the boundary cushion on the full, but it matters little as New Zealand go down here
19.5
4
Gardner to Martin, FOUR, full on off, drilled past mid-off for four but that's little consolation for New Zealand who will be knocked out
19.4
2
Gardner to Martin, 2 runs, and they won't have it, full toss on middle, swung away to deep midwicket for just two
19.3
1
Gardner to Kasperek, 1 run, full toss on middle, only manages to get away to long-on for one. New Zealand need 3 sixes
19.2
1
Gardner to Martin, 1 run, full and outside off, swung away to deep square leg for just one
Damien: "Wow proud of ya girls. I am enjoying this game at Junction Oval with a beer and cricinfo in my hands. Bring on the Semi finals :)"
19.1
1
Gardner to Kasperek, 1 run, full on middle and leg, she picks out fine-leg on the bounce for just one
Gardner has 19 to play with. Perry is off the field so Australia don't have a choice. 11 came from her first
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