{"id":218791,"date":"2025-10-16T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218791\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:40:07","slug":"alyssa-healy-hits-another-ton-to-power-australia-into-womens-world-cup-semi-finals-australia-womens-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218791\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa Healy hits another ton to power Australia into Women\u2019s World Cup semi-finals | Australia women’s cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alyssa Healy has completed superb back-to-back centuries<\/a> to lead her Australian team into the semi-finals of the World Cup, inspiring them to a merciless 10-wicket trouncing of Bangladesh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Healy hit an unbeaten 113, coming just four days after her equally brilliant 142 that saw off hosts India at the same Visakhapatnam stadium, this time sharing an unbroken double-century opening partnership with Phoebe Litchfield (84no) to race to their target of 199 in just 24.5 overs.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the supreme professionalism of Thursday\u2019s chase as the pair put on 202 came after perhaps Australia\u2019s shoddiest display in the field under Healy\u2019s stewardship, with the skipper scolding herself in particular for spilling two of the six catches that went down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was a little bit poor behind the stumps, and probably a little bit as skipper as well tonight, but we\u2019ll take the two points and move on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a little bit disappointed with my glovework and I had a little bit to make up for with the bat, and luckily got the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since data was first taken on fielding statistics in 2013, the half-dozen dropped catches represented Australia\u2019s worst fielding display at a Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe it\u2019s just that time of the tournament \u2013 we\u2019ve been here a little while, and it\u2019s something we\u2019ll reflect on,\u201d Healy said.<\/p>\n

It helped Bangladesh eke out 9-198 after they had chosen to bat, their highest total in an ODI against Australia, with Sobhana Mostary compiling the first half-century ever for the Asian side against the world champions.<\/p>\n

But Alana King\u2019s mesmeric unbroken 10-over spell, in which she took 2-18 with four maidens, was key to ensuring Australia\u2019s target wasn\u2019t too challenging.<\/p>\n

Alana King of Australia bowls during the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup India 2025 match between Australia and Bangladesh Photograph: Unnati Naidu\/SPP\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Healy was delighted to learn that the victory, which puts her unbeaten side top of the group table on nine points after four wins and a wash-out, guarantees them a place in the last-four. \u201cThat\u2019s really cool,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old skipper sped to her hundred off just 73 balls, the fastest century of the tournament, and ended with 20 boundaries off the 77 deliveries she faced as she pulled away from Litchfield later in the innings after they had gone practically boundary-for-boundary towards their fifties.<\/p>\n

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Left-hander Litchfield struck 12 fours and a six, getting to her first World Cup half-century off 46 balls soon after Healy got there off 43. They went on to record the third-highest partnership by any Australian pair at a Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n

Earlier, during the sluggish fielding effort, Healy spilled the simplest of edges off Darcie Brown and also failed to grasp a difficult lofted one off Annabel Sutherland. Frustratingly, she also did take a clean catch off Brown but didn\u2019t have it reviewed when the umpire rejected their appeal.<\/p>\n

The recalled Brown sent down the fastest deliveries at the World Cup so far but was still the Aussies\u2019 most expensive bowler, going for 0-52 off her nine overs.<\/p>\n

Instead, the spinners thrived, led by King, whose spell could have been even productive if Beth Mooney hadn\u2019t dropped one in the slips.<\/p>\n

Fellow spinners Georgia Wareham (2-22 off seven) and Ash Gardner (2-48 off nine) both chipped in, while Sutherland consolidated her position as the tournament\u2019s leading wicket-taker with her 2-41, taking her tally to 13.<\/p>\n

Rubya Haider\u2019s 44 and Mostary\u2019s unbeaten 66 off 80 balls took Bangladesh to their record total against the Aussies, but the total was made to look easy meat by a side who had chased down 330 against India four days earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always nice when you\u2019ve got the \u2018Q\u2019 next to your name in a World Cup,\u201d said player-of-the-match King. \u201cNo doubt it doesn\u2019t stop here. We look forward to going back to Indore to take on England and South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alyssa Healy has completed superb back-to-back centuries to lead her Australian team into the semi-finals of the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-218791","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\/218791","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=218791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}