DELIVERING WORLD-CLASS EVENTS // ICC WOMEN’S WORLD T20 2018
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England captain Knight admitted her side failed to deliver a performance when it mattered most but was still optimistic for the future.
“We just kept losing momentum and never really got the big partnership together that was going to push us on,” she said.
“But I’m definitely proud that we made it to another final. We had a very inexperienced side, and some of those players that came in – like Sophia Dunkley, Kirstie Gordon – have stepped up and performed outstandingly.
“It feels a bit raw at the moment but moving forward it’s a real positive for us.”
Gordon, the 21-year-old left-arm spinner who took eight wickets in her maiden international event, emphasised her potential.
But the Player of the Tournament, undisputedly, was Alyssa Healy, Australia’s opening batter and wicketkeeper, who won the Player of the Match award as her side’s top scorer in four of the five matches in which she batted. Overall, Healy struck 225 runs at an average of 56.25 and a strike rate of 144.23.
Outstanding moments included Shrubsole’s hat-trick for England against South Africa, Deandra Dottin’s five for five for Windies against Bangladesh, Harmanpreet Kaur’s 103 for India against New Zealand and Sophie Devine’s 21-ball half-century for New Zealand against Ireland.
Devine’s team-mate Suzie Bates became the first cricketer, male or female, to score 3,000 runs in Twenty20 Internationals, while Australia’s Ellyse Perry became the first for her country, male or female, to play in 100 T2OIs and take 100 wickets.
Perry, who has also represented her country in a football World Cup, is the most recognisable female in Australian sport and will undoubtedly be one of the poster stars for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020.
Australia’s aim is not only to win the tournament but to do so in front of the biggest crowd to witness a women’s sports event – eclipsing the 90,185 who attended the 1999 football World Cup final in Pasadena – when the final is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 8 March.
“It’s ambitious, but this tournament has captured a lot of people’s attention and shown people we’re a team worth watching,” Perry said. “We want 92,000 there.”
MAIN: Harmanpreet Kaur of India celebrates her half-century against New Zealand. TOP: Deandra Dottin of the West Indies in action. BOTTOM: Alyssa Healy of Australia bat.
*The tournament was known as the “ICC Women’s World T20” till the 2018 edition but has been renamed as the “ICC Women’s T20 World Cup”
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