Australia are Women’s T20 World Cup Winners one more time after they defeated South Africa in the presence of a packed crowd at Newlands in Cape Town on 26th January.
This was Meg lanning Australia who turned out on top in the Final of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2023 against South Africa.
Beth Money Max- scored with 74 as the world’s top ranking team scored with 156/6 and an excellent bowling show saw South Africa kept back in their run after, with the Proteas falling 20 runs short of their achievement.
Team success means Australia have now crowned sixth Women’s T20 World Cup titles and also they have finished a ‘three- peat’ successful in 2018, 2020 and 2023. Tasked with fighting for a target of 157, Australia team’s bowlers strangulated the scoring rate of South Africa team’s openers at the beginning of the reply, pursuing 22 runs in the Finals and with in- form Tazim Brints returned to the Funk hole by Darcie Brown.
A Brown Catch saw Marizanne Kapp send away for a run- a- ball 11 off Ash Gardner as South Africa Team strived to increase the score rate, with 105 runs still needed with 10 overs left.
The excellence of Laura Wolvaardt intimidated to bring South Africa back into the match as the player hit nice short to surge to 61 runs from 48 balls.
However Megan Schutt eliminated Wolvaardt wicket and Jess Jonassen removed the savage Chloe Tryon (25 runs from 23 balls) as the needed rate of scoring was too much for South African Team in the last overs. And Australia went on the comfort in the end, winning the title by 19 runs to attach one more silverware to the team’s swelling trophy Cupboard.
