- Host nation pulled off a miracle to oust Aussies in World Cup semi ultimate
Australia’s reign as world champions is at an finish after India pulled off the best run chase ever witnessed within the ladies’s sport to dethrone Alyssa Healy’s unbeaten powerhouses.
Not even an excellent hundred from Phoebe Litchfield and extra spectacular hitting from Ash Gardner was sufficient as Australia’s World Cup semi-final woes resurfaced, with India reaching an unbelievable five-wicket victory in Navi Mumbai, due to Jemimah Rodrigues’ innings of a lifetime.
Healy was left to replicate on a probably era-ending defeat, together with her aspect now dethroned as each T20 and ODI champs. She admitted that they had most likely let themselves down at essential moments.
‘We most likely did not end off with the bat, did not bowl that nice and dropped all our possibilities within the discipline,’ admitted the skipper, who spilled one golden likelihood off Rodrigues herself.
‘We created alternatives. We simply weren’t capable of capitalise. And, you recognize, I am at fault for that as nicely, and I feel that is one thing that Australia actually prides themselves on.
‘We type of let ourselves down in that regard right this moment. In order that’s most likely why it is disappointing.’
Indian gamers rejoice after pulling off the best run chase in historical past to beat the Aussies
It got here after rising Australian star Phoebe Litchfield clobbered an essential century because the Aussies posted an enormous complete
India’s Amanjot Kaur celebrates after taking the essential wicket of Litchfield within the semi ultimate
Rodrigues, the bubbly India heroine who has struggled in latest months, scored 127 not out from 134 balls to information the house aspect to probably the most unlikely of triumphs on Thursday, as India made 5-341 to surpass Australia’s 338 all out, which had featured an outstanding 119 from Litchfield.
However the breakthrough knock of Australia’s younger gun, aided by Ellyse Perry’s 77 from 88 balls and, later, cemented by Gardner’s sparking 63 off 45, nonetheless proved inadequate as India surpassed the world document chase that the favourites had pulled off in opposition to them simply 18 days earlier.
Having been crushed within the 2017 semi-final by India and having misplaced final 12 months’s last-four conflict in opposition to South Africa within the T20 World Cup, defeat on the last-four stage felt acquainted for Healy however no much less crushing for her aspect, which had received all six earlier matches they’d performed on this version so impressively.
However now, the crew which has dominated ladies’s cricket on the worldwide stage for therefore lengthy would not have a world title to its title, and it is India and South Africa who will battle for the title on the identical DY Patil Stadium on Sunday.
With Healy, again from damage, opting to bat on a rain-spattered afternoon, the captain struggled for her 5 off 15 balls, however Litchfield actually got here of age together with her first World Cup hundred, the quickest ever within the knockout phases of a Girls’s World Cup off simply 77 balls.
She shared a 155-run stand with Perry that took Australia to 1-159 at midway, dreaming of an even bigger complete than they ended up with.
Litchfield’s 93-ball knock, which included three sixes and 17 fours, ultimately ended when she tried to play a too-ambitious scoop in opposition to Amanjot Kaur and misplaced her center stump.
India claimed fast wickets to use the brake however Gardner’s 41-ball half-century took Australia previous the 300.
After Australia removed Shafali Verma (10) and Smriti Mandhana, India’s main scorer, for twenty-four, a 167-run stand between Rodrigues, who ended up with 14 boundaries off 134 balls, and captain Harmanpreet Kaur (89) put India in management.
Annabel Sutherland (2-69) denied Harmanpreet a century, however when Rodrigues was spilled by Healy off Alana King when on 82 and, once more, by Tahlia McGrath off Sutherland on 106 — these simple misses have been to show expensive.
