Australia’s opening pair Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney batted the hapless Bangladeshi team out of the match in the Group A encounter at Manuka Oval in Canberra on Thursday. The four-time champions won the match by a massive margin of 86 runs.
𓃲The Australian🗹 duo added a whopping 151 runs for the first wicket, which is now the highest partnership for Australia in the T20 World Cup.
A record-breaking night for Healy and Mooney at the top of Australia's order!
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The right-hand, lef🔜t-hand alliance of the Australian openers ripped the Bangladeshi bowling attack into piecꦿes as both notched up scores above 80, at a rapid pace.
Healy hit 83 off just 53 deliveries at a magnificent strike rate of 1꧂56.6, where she smashed ten boundaries and three towering maximums. She was awarded the p💫layer of the match title for her brilliant effort with the bat.
Player🔥 of the Match is Alyssa Healy for her 8ꦏ3 off 53 balls, which included three sixes.
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Mooney, at th﷽e o💞ther end, made merry of the Bangla bowlers, with her unbeaten knock of 81, which came off just 58 deliveries, powered by nine scorching boundaries.
The finishing impetus was provided by swashbuckling batter Ashleigh Gardner, who took the Australian score to 189, with 🌊her 9-ball 22. This was also the third-highest total by any team in the T20 World Cup.
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All of the Bangladeshi bowlers went for plenty, barring Ruman💝a Ahmed and Fatima K🏅hatun, who relatively put the brakes on the Australian proceedings.
Coming out to bat, Bangladesh were reduced to 26-3, by the end of the powerplay, adding woes for the Asian team.
A consolidating partnership between Nigar Sultana and Fargana Hoque delayed the🥃 inevitable for Bangladesꦯh.
💞Megan Schutt (3/21) was the pick of the bowlers who delivered the ear😼ly breakthroughs for her side. By the end of their innings, Bangladesh just managed to survive the 20-overs, with only 103 on the board.
In the end, Australia cruised towards a much-needed victory by a massive margin, keeping t🌼heir net run-rate in check, which might turn out to be the decisive factor for their qualification, during the later s❀tages of the tournament.
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