{"id":218413,"date":"2025-10-16T19:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218413\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:06:09","slug":"womens-world-cup-australias-healy-stars-in-bangladesh-thrashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218413\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s World Cup: Australia’s Healy stars in Bangladesh thrashing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia may be unbeaten but did not start this tournament in the smoothest fashion, with individual performances digging their batting line-up out of trouble in their opening matches.<\/p>\n

They slipped to 128-5 in their first game against New Zealand before Ash Gardner scored 115 from number six to drag them to a total their opponents couldn’t chase<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rain saw their encounter with Sri Lanka washed out without a ball bowled, before Beth Mooney took the saviour role against Pakistan<\/a>, smashing 109 to take Australia from 76-7 to 221-9.<\/p>\n

When India scored 330 on Sunday<\/a>, the seven-time world champions were up against it again – only for Healy to anchor a record chase, with three other batters recording scores over 40 as Australia slotted into their familiar position as a dominant force.<\/p>\n

Their bowlers have looked strong throughout the competition and they overpowered Bangladesh’s batters in this match, with Alana King’s 2-18 the pick as four of the attack took a pair of wickets.<\/p>\n

Healy then stepped up, scoring consecutive centuries for the second time in World Cups after achieving the feat against England and the West Indies in 2022.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old, who may be playing her final year of international cricket, has taken her side into yet another tournament semi-final, and will be keen to continue building momentum in their final group stage games.<\/p>\n

Their next opponents? England on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia may be unbeaten but did not start this tournament in the smoothest fashion, with individual performances digging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-218413","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\/218413","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=218413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}