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NEW DELHI: Australia have done it again.

They bagged their record-extending 6th ICC Womens T20 World Cup title on Sunday, beating hosts South Africa by 19 perform at Newlands, Cape Town.Playing their seventh final in a row, Australia rejected South Africa, who were playing their very first top clash, a fairytale ending in front of the house crowd.

Rather, the Aussies registered their second hat-trick of titles in the T20 World Cup.

They had actually previously won the title in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018 and 2020.

As it occurred: South Africa vs AustraliaOpting to bat in the huge final, Australia published a fighting total of 156 for 6 in their 20 overs, riding on Player of the Match Beth Mooneys unbeaten 74 off 53 balls.

And it ended up being rather enough for them in the end as South Africa caught pressure in their run chase.The hosts started the chase watchfully, scoring just 17 runs in the very first 5 overs for the loss of one wicket (Tazmin Brits).

South Africa were never ever in the contention after that in spite of a gritty half-century from Laura Wolvaardt (61 off 48), and ended up well short on 137 for 6 in their allocated 20 overs.

Opener Wolvaardt played a worthy lone hand while wickets kept tumbling at the other end for the hosts.

Wolvaardt struck five limits and three big 6s throughout her knock.South Africa lost Brits in the fifth over, caught by Tahila McGrath at mid-on.

McGrath ran backwards to finish a catch above her avoid the bowling of Darcie Brown.

Wolvaardt and Marizanne Kapp (11) then shared a 29-run mean the 2nd wicket prior to the latter was captured by Brown off the bowling of Ashleigh Gardner.An over later, there was more suffering for South Africa as skipper Sune Luus fell to an unwanted go out to plunge to 54 for 3 in 10.4 overs.With runs drying up, Wolvaardt chose a big heave towards the onside off a Megan Schutt complete shipment, just to miss it and be adjudged LBW.

The batter, South Africas last hope, chose a review but was unsuccessful as Australia all however sealed the fate of the match.Left-arm orthodox spinner Jess Jonassen then accounted for Chloe Tryon (19) in the next over before Anneke Bosch was gone out a ball later to rush South Africas slim hopes.Electing to bat, Australia lost Alyssa Healy (18) early, caught at covers by Nadine De Klerk off the bowling of Marizanne Kapp (2/35) in the 5th over.Then Ashleigh Gardner (29 off 21) joined hands with Mooney and the sets 46 runs for the second wicket stabilised the innings before the former was brilliantly captured at long-off by South Africa skipper Sune Luus off the bowling of left-arm spinner Chloe-Lesleigh Tryon.But Mooney tackled her service in blistering fashion and dispatched the bad deliveries to the fence to keep the scoreboard ticking.Grace Harris attempted to up the scoring rate however was cleaned up by left-arm spinner Nonkululeko Mlaba in the 14th over as the batter opted for a wild heave over the square-leg boundary.Next in, skipper Meg Lanning showed intent from the word go, scoring her very first runs from a boundary through the point area prior to being remarkably caught by Tyron at deep backward square leg off the bowling of Kapp.Mooney, nevertheless, remained undisturbed as she kept consolidating the Australia innings, picking up borders with ease.Even as Mooney held one wind up, wickets kept toppling at the opposite as Australia tried to find boundaries towards the end of the innings.South Africa remarkably pulled things back towards completion of the innings by picking up wickets at routine periods with Mooney remaining stranded at the other end.South African pacer Shabnim Ismail (2/26) had a big function to play in limiting Australia, claiming the wickets of Ellyse Perry and Georgia Wareham off consecutive balls.

She was on an uncommon hat-trick in the final over however Tahlia McGrath rejected Ismail the task, handling a single off the last shipment of the innings.(With inputs from PTI)





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