Healy’s brilliant leads; Australia win Women’s Cricket World Cup title for the seventh time

Alyssa Healy produced milestone innings in a tournament on women’s cricket as Australia beat England by 71 runs on Sunday to win the Women’s Cricket World Cup for the seventh time. Healy struck 170 from 138 balls as Australia reached 356-5 to toss aside any notions that women’s limited-overs cricket is in any way staid or lacking in spectacle.

Nat Sciver then produced an innings of almost equal quality, reaching a century from 90 balls to give hope to what seemed a hopeless England run chase. Sciver was 148 not out when England’s last wicket fell at 285 in the 44th over. While she was at the crease, Australia’s total seemed attainable. Healy’s was the highest and Sciver’s the third-highest individual scores in a men’s or women’s ICC World Cup that making clear this final was one of the best ever in a cricket World Cup.

 

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