
Australia Women beat India Women by 85 runs in the final of Women's T20 World Cup 2020 in Melbourne and clinched their fifth title.
Earlier Australia Women won the toss and opted to bat first. Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney who both got early life lines took full advantage of those chances and India's poor bowling and added 115 runs for the first wicket in just 11.4 overs. Healy got out for 75 runs off 39 balls but Beth Mooney continued her good run and kept smashing bowlers and her 78* runs knock helped Australia to post 184/4 on the board.
In the reply, India Women lost Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana cheaply and lost the plot and kept losing wickets regularly and eventually bowled out for just 99 runs. Alyssa Healy was named player of the match and Beth Mooney player of the tournament.
All the major stats and facts from Women's T20 World Cup final between India Women and Australia Women in Melbourne
5 - Australia Women won their fifth T20 World Cup - the only Women team to win more than one T20 World Cup.
Winners of Women's T20 World Cups :
2009 - England
2010 - Australia
2012 - Australia
2014 - Australia
2016 - West Indies
2018 - Australia
2020 - Australia
78* - Beth Mooney's 78 not out is the highest ever individual score in the final of Women's T20 World Cups.
Highest individual scores in Women's T20 World Cup final -
78* - Beth Mooney (AUS-W) vs IND-W at Melbourne, 2020
75 - Alyssa Healy (AUS-W) vs IND-W at Melbourne, 2020
66 - Hayley Mathews (WI-W) vs AUS-W at Kolkata, 2016
59 - Stafaine Taylor (WI-W) vs AUS-W at Kolkata, 2016
85 - Runs win is the biggest win for Australia Women over India Women in T20I cricket. The previous was by 63 runs at Visakhapatnam back in 2012.
99 - Runs total is the fourth-lowest total for India Women against Australia Women in T20I cricket.
Lowest T20I totals for IND Women vs AUS Women -
62 at Billericay, 2011
85 at Visakhapatnam, 2012
88/6 at Visakhapatnam, 2012
99 at Melbourne, 2020
2060 - Alyssa Healy when on 15, completed 2000 runs in Women's T20I cricket - Only the second Australian woman player to achieve this feat,
Most T20I runs for AUS Women -
2788 - Meg Lanning
2060 - Alyssa Healy
1452 - Beth Mooney
