short delivery, pulled away to deep midwicket boundary and Australia invade the field! That's three World T20s in the bag
ENG Women vs AUS Women, Final at Dhaka, Apr 06 2014 - Ball by Ball Commentary
AUS Women won by 6 wickets (with 29 balls remaining)
5.20 pm So that's one final done and dusted, Australia pose with the trophy and off goes the team song again. Thank you for your company and hope you pop over to the men's final that is due to start in a couple of hours' time. This is Alagappan Muthu, signing off
"It's amazing. great to be able to play so well. Almost the perfect match today," Meg Lanning says, "Bowlers did it for us, we had our plans and we executed well. Perhaps, we're attacking in nature and we love to play our shots. Even chasing a small total we wanted to be positive. We had a great team here and the support's been so good. I'm just really happy right now. We've had a lot of experience even though we are young, we can build something really big. We have a great core of players"
"They bowled very well and they came out and batted good. We just weren't enough today,"Charlotte Edwards says, "Backed it up in the field. We never got going, kept losing wickets at key stages. 105 was never going to be enough in a World Cup final. Anya's been exceptional, all the bowlers have been. [Six-hitting] A scenario we have to improve on. In the past our strength is boundary hitting and we'll go back to work on and hopefully we go better. Just bitterly disappointed we couldn't get over the line"
Anya Shrubsole is the Player of the Tournament "It's been a really good tournament. As a team we can be proud of what we've done. Just keeping it simple and it seems to have worked. Congratulations to Meg and her team, they were the better team today"
5.10 pm Sarah Coyte is the Player of the Match "I'm not sure I can put it into words. Amazing feeling. So proud. To get Taylor and Edwards, two world class betters early was so great. Disciplined lines and lengths was what I've been working on and it came through"
4.55 pm Australia have showed off their ball-striking ability today and that is where they've got the better of England. They're still huddled by the pitch, the Aussie flag is in the middle and they're belting of the team song. "We are the Southern Stars, Wooo!" they scream. Meg Lanning led from the front and she looked in no trouble whatsoever. Her 44 off 30 balls took her to the top of the tree in the run-scorers list for the tournament
Naveed Khawaja: "Outstanding Australia for its historical achievements...its not easy as we saw....so congrats to Aussies...."
john stone: "Bad toss to lose? I think we would have fielded first if we had won it. Seems to me one is better served to know the required run rate. Our girls are still heroes and deserve recognition for their sterling effort. What would have happened if young Knight had been allowed to continue for another five or six overs?"
another wicket, Sciver doing her best to keep this alive but it's all too little too late. Full delivery and Blackwell stays back and wants to play across the line. Easy decision
full toss over waist high, turned away towards square leg. Scores level
digs out a full delivery on off stump towards cover
Alex Blackwell comes out
she is furious with herself. Slams the bat into the pitch after she presents the simplest of catches to mid-off. Just couldn't get under it enough
full and angled down the leg side, the flick doesn't connect and the ball dribbles away towards square leg
shortish and outside off, tapped away to the sweeper
Australia are huddled together on the boundary, waiting for the winning runs
skids off a good length and Lanning nudges towards square leg
Fahad: "Can we borrow Lanning to play instead of Shoaib Malik? "
flighted on middle, she strides forward and blocks
length ball goes down the leg side
this time she muscles the low full toss down the ground. Mid-on dives but is not quick enough. Australia need five to win a hat-trick of World T20s
low full toss outside off, carved away to deep cover
stays back and whips the length ball going on with the arm to deep square leg
shortish delivery outside off, the dab doesn't bring her any better success
flighted on the pads, Perry misses a flick
Stuart: "I think Nadim Mukadam is trying to say that Virat Kohli is nearly as good as Meg Lanning?"
fuller delivery on off stump, but all the pace has been taken off. Perry blocks with soft hands and pinches a single
shortish and outside off, goes deep into he crease and cuts to deep third man to raise the fifty partnership
terrible length there as she goes short on middle and Lanning has pummeled it to the midwicket boundary
shortish and outside off, she goes back to cut and misses. Slower leg cutter deceives her
fullish on and around off stump, this was the change of pace. Perry isn't deceived and blocks into the covers
thumped to the mid-off boundary, this time all along the ground. Just a little overpitched by Shrubsole and it's been struck so firmly again