{"id":198603,"date":"2025-10-08T20:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198603\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:22:20","slug":"australia-vs-pakistan-scorecard-beth-mooney-century-alana-king-fifty-highlights-video-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198603\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs Pakistan scorecard, Beth Mooney century, Alana King fifty, highlights, video, news"},"content":{"rendered":"

A masterful century from Beth Mooney has helped Australia avoid a historic loss to Pakistan in the Women\u2019s World Cup as the defending champions sealed a 107-run victory in Colombo.<\/p>\n

The Australians were reeling at 7-76 after Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl first\ufeff on a slow, low turner at R Premadasa Stadium, with spinners Rameen Shamim (2-29) and Nashra Sandhu (3-37) ripping through the middle order in a chaotic collapse of 7-46.<\/p>\n

However, Mooney combined with spinner Alana King for a record 106-run partnership, the highest ninth-wicket stand in women\u2019s ODI history, to revive the innings and steer Australia towards 9-221.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a pretty tricky situation. We wanted to get a partnership going and really had to grind to reach 221,\u201d Mooney said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlana King was incredible tonight. We\u2019ve seen her do it before and it was nice to share that stand with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

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King struck three sixes during her career-best 51 not out \u2013 the highest score by a No. 10 or lower in women\u2019s ODIs \u2013 while Mooney was dismissed on the final delivery of the innings for 109 (114), her fifth ODI hundred, which included 44 singles and 11 boundaries.<\/p>\n

The duo smashed 53 runs from the final four overs, with King slapping consecutive sixes against Fatima Sana, while Mooney reached triple figures in 109 deliveries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one of the best innings I\u2019ve seen Mooney play, and I\u2019ve seen her bat a lot. That\u2019s hands down one of the best innings,\u201d Australian captain Alyssa Healy said after the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to her we got ourselves on the board. We\u2019d have taken 150 and tried to defend that, so to get up over 200 was a huge effort from her at King at the back end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Australia’s Beth Mooney. Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA \/ AFPSource: AFP<\/p>\n

In response, Pakistan was rolled for 114 in 36.3 overs, with Australia\u2019s seamers doing the bulk of the damage \u2013 Kim Garth claimed 3-14, while veteran Megan Schutt and all-rounder Annabel Sutherland each snared two scalps. Sidra Amin top-scored for Pakistan with a gritty 35, but none of her teammates managed more than 15 against the powerhouse side.<\/p>\n

Pakistan has never beaten Australia in women\u2019s ODIs, suffering 17 consecutive defeats since 1997.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were on top in the first 20 overs, after that Mooney played well. The way she played was awesome to watch,\u201d Pakistan captain Fatima Sana Khan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut our energy went down. We need to improve on our energy. If you are on top, you need to remain on top until the last ball. We need our energy from 20 overs for the whole game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, the Australians were also in a spot of bother at 5-128 against New Zealand before Ash Gardner struck a counterpunching 115, guiding the seven-time world champions towards 326.<\/p>\n

Australia, undefeated after three games including Saturday\u2019s abandoned washout against Sri Lanka, now sits atop the World Cup standings. They will next face tournament co-hosts India in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A masterful century from Beth Mooney has helped Australia avoid a historic loss to Pakistan in the Women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-198603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}