Opener Alyssa Healy set Australia a mammoth 357-run victory target as they beat England bowlers by 170 runs in the Women’s World Cup final in Christchurch on Sunday.
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Four days after scoring 129 in the semi-final against the West Indies, wicketkeeper-batsman Healy hit 26 fours in a combative 138-ball knock at the Hagley Oval as six-time champions Australia won the toss and elected England for five wickets. But scored 356 runs. Farm.
Healy shared a 100-run stand with fellow opener Rachel Haynes (68) and number three Beth Mooney (62) before being eventually stumped by Amy Jones off seamer Anya Shrubsole.
Two years after hitting a 39-ball 75 in the 2020 T20 World Cup final against India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Healy stepped into the standing ovation with 316 for two.
It was a poor innings on the field for Heather Knight’s side, except for a few test overs from the fast bowlers in the beginning.
The golden opportunity to run out Haynes for 19 went begging due to a weak throw at the wicketkeeper’s end.
A review for an LBW decision was doomed when Healy, on 30, brought spinner Sophie Ecclestone to her pad.
Seamer Kate Cross was thrown down twice in four balls by her teammates, with Haynes getting 47 and Healy for 41.
England finally got a breakthrough when Haynes caught Ecclestone for 68 at backward point by Tammy Beaumont.
Healy cuts Shrubsole for a single to complete his fifth ODI century.
She jumped with joy as smiling husband Mitchell Starc, the Australian men’s fast bowler, clapped in the crowd.
Healy and Mooney continued to pile up the pain for England.
Beaumont jumped after trying to ramp up Nat Sciver, dropping Healy to 136 at short fine leg.
Soon after, he hit three consecutive fours off the hapless Ecclestone, the first high over covers to take him to 150.
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