64 DELIVERING WORLD-CLASS EVENTS // ICC Women’s World Cup 2017
BELOW: Harmanpreet Kaur hits out during the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 Australia and India at The County Ground in Derby.
OPPOSITE TOP: England team following their victory in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017.
OPPOSITE BOTTOM: Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry walk off after victory over Sri Lanka.
It wasn’t all plain sailing for England, though. The hosts were involved in a couple of thrilling tussles that served to demonstrate the breadth defeat of South Africa was only settled by a Shrubsole boundary from the penultimate ball with England eight wickets down, while their group stage victory over pre-tournament favourites Australia was equally tight, with the result only decided when Jess Jonassen failed to
That was the only defeat of an impressive group- stage campaign for Australia, with Meg Lanning’s side living up to their billing as the best in the world. All the other teams were swept aside Lanning standing out – the former notched up her career, while the latter’s 152 not out against Sri Lanka was the highest-ever second-innings score in the highest-ever Women’s World Cup chase.
Australia’s tournament was only ended by one of the all-time great innings. Harmanpreet Kaur’s audaciously brilliant knock of 171 not out – in which a mammoth Indian total which proved too much even for Australia’s stellar line-up.
In Harmanpreet, Indian cricket possesses a charismatic batting star, with the quality and the attitude to propel the women’s game into the future; there is a sense of a step-change having taken place and of Harmanpreet – bold, brash, expansively talented – being at the heart at Lord’s, but their performances throughout the tournament – including an opening-day victory over England which set the tone for the event itself – unquestionably stirred the country’s vast, cricket-loving public to further embrace the women’s game.
Outstanding individual feats were everywhere. two innings, India’s 21-year-old opener Smriti brightest talents in the game, while at the other end of the age scale, the legendary Mithali Raj – who provided one of the tournament’s most memorable images, reading a book on a bench while waiting to go out to bat – crossed 50 four times and made one century, in what was effectively became the highest run-scorer in women’s ODIs during the tournament.
“In Harmanpreet, Indian cricket possesses a charismatic batting star, with the quality and the attitude to propel the women’s game into the future.”
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