{"id":502666,"date":"2026-06-20T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:05:09","slug":"aus-w-vs-nl-w-womens-t20-world-cup-2026-australias-win-over-netherlands-marred-by-beth-mooney-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502666\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS-W vs NL-W, Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026: Australia\u2019s win over Netherlands marred by Beth Mooney injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian cricket team<\/a> extended its winning run to three in the Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026<\/a> after comprehensively defeating the Netherlands by 98 runs in a Group 1 match at the Rose Bowl in Hampshire on Saturday.<\/p>\n

World No. 1 Australia had earlier brushed aside South Africa<\/a> and Bangladesh in their group and Saturday\u2019s win took them above India to the top of the standings with six points from three games.<\/p>\n

Sent in to bat first, Australia rode on Beth Mooney and Ashleigh Gardner\u2019s fifties and a late surge by Georgia Wareham to post a record total of 219\/6 on the board.<\/p>\n

The Netherlands women\u2019s cricket team, ranked 14th in the world, scored 121\/3 in their allotted 20 overs with captain Babette de Leede scoring a fifty.<\/p>\n

Australian openers Georgia Voll and Beth Mooney gave the six-time Women\u2019s T20 World Cup<\/a> champions a brisk start, bringing up fifty on the board inside the first five overs before Voll was dismissed by Iris Zwilling.<\/p>\n

Ellyse Perry, playing her 50th T20 World Cup match<\/a>, also departed after adding just one run to the scoreboard.<\/p>\n

However, Mooney and Ashleigh Gardner, who had missed the Bangladesh game with injury, stitched a 101-run stand for the third wicket to put Australia firmly in the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n

Gardner was finally sent back by Caroline de Lange but not before she had scored a damaging 58 off 32 balls. Unfortunately, Australia also lost Mooney in the very next ball after she was forced to retire hurt due to a stiff back while batting on 74 off 42 deliveries.<\/p>\n

Losing two set batters in succession disrupted Australia\u2019s momentum but Georgia Wareham softened the blow with an 18-ball 41 to guide her team to 219\/6 – matching England\u2019s record for the highest score in a Women\u2019s T20 World Cup match.<\/p>\n

England had scored 219\/1 against Sri Lanka in the tournament opener.<\/p>\n

Zwilling picked up 3\/52 for the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Kim Garth sent back both Dutch openers early but Netherlands fought back with captain Babette de Leede and Sterre Kalisjoing forces to put together a 96-run stand.<\/p>\n

Leede finished with an unbeaten half-century while Kalis fell to Annabel Sutherland in the penultimate over, just six short of a 12th T20 fifty as Netherlands’ scoring rate never quite threatened Australia\u2019s total.<\/p>\n

Mooney didn\u2019t keep wickets as Voll filled in with the gloves. Australia\u2019s other specialist wicketkeeping option Phoebe Litchfield is also expected to miss the next match after suffering an injury against the Proteas.<\/p>\n

The Australian women\u2019s cricket team\u2019s next Women\u2019s T20 World Cup<\/a> match will be against Pakistan at Headingley on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

AUS-W vs NL-W, Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 brief scores: Australia Women 219\/6 in 20 overs (Beth Mooney 74, Ashleigh Gardner 58; Iris Zwilling 3\/52) beat Netherlands Women 121\/3 in 20 overs (Babette de Leede 56, Sterre Kalis 44; Kim Garth 2\/20) by 98 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian cricket team extended its winning run to three in the Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-502666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}