{"id":781114,"date":"2026-07-05T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781114\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:00:13","slug":"australia-defeats-england-to-win-icc-womens-t20-cricket-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781114\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia defeats England to win ICC Women&#8217;s T20 Cricket World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Australia has won the ICC Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup in commanding style, defeating England by seven wickets in the final at Lord&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">After winning the toss and sending England into bat, Australia restricted the hosts to 4\/150 from their 50 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Opener Mooney, Australia&#8217;s all-time leading scorer in this format, was magnificent again, powering to 64 off 49 balls before they breezed to their target on 3-153 with 17 balls to spare. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mooney and Litchfield, who hit 48 off 35 balls including two glorious sixes, one which was switch-hit dazzlingly, put on exactly 100 for the second wicket, bringing up their century stand off 66 balls and effectively killing all English hope. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It ends a rare spell without a global trophy in either the 50-over or 20-over game for Australia, who demonstrated all their old mastery, bowling with great discipline, fielding with immense sharpness and batting with enterprise and vigour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Once again, they were simply in another class to the hosts, whose record in seven white-ball World Cup finals is England 0 Australia 7. It was also the first time England had lost a home World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">This is Australia&#8217;s seventh Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup title out of the 10 that have been played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AAP\/ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia has won the ICC Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup in commanding style, defeating England by seven wickets in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,740,1208,2128,44,350734],"class_list":["post-781114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-lords","tag-news","tag-womens-t20-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781114","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=781114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}