{"id":2308,"date":"2021-03-08T18:11:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=97928"},"modified":"2021-03-08T18:11:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:41:14","slug":"icc-provides-major-throwback-to-finals-of-t20-world-cup-held-on-international-womens-day-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/icc-provides-major-throwback-to-finals-of-t20-world-cup-held-on-international-womens-day-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC provides major throwback to finals of T20 World Cup held on International Women\u2019s Day last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Providing a major throwback to last year when Australian women lift the ICC Women\u2019s T20 Cricket World Cup on International Women\u2019s Day, the ICC official Twitter handle posted a video revealing the Aussie dugout and the crowded stadium after the win.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champions Australia claimed its fifth Women\u2019s T20 World Cup title after defeating India by 85 runs in the finals at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC tweeted \u2013 \u2018That winning feeling. Inside the dugout the moment @AusWomenCricket won the @T20WorldCup on International Women\u2019s Day. #IWD2021\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That winning feeling \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>Inside the dugout the moment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AusWomenCricket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AusWomenCricket<\/a> won the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/T20WorldCup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@T20WorldCup<\/a> on International Women\u2019s Day.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IWD2021?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IWD2021<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E4otWEEYdu\">pic.twitter.com\/E4otWEEYdu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1368819522715541509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of International Women\u2019s Day, close to 86,000 audiences attended the match in the MCG. With a breathtaking batting performance by Alyssa Healy who belted 75 off 39 balls including a half-century off just 30 balls, setting a record for the fastest 50 in an ICC final.<\/p>\n<p>Healy and Beth Mooney (78 not out from 54 deliveries) shared a 115 run opening partnership helping Australia to score 184-4 at the end of 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>In reply, India suffered at the hands of Australia\u2019s fielding, losing four early wickets for 30 runs in a total of 99 in 19.1 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Australia took its chances as Shafali Verma fell to a sharp chance by wicket-keeper Healy in the start. To add trouble, Jemima Rodrigues (0) and Smrithi Mandhana (11) also departed cheaply and Taniya Bhatia retired hurt after a blow to the neck following an attempted sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Even Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur was caught at deep square-leg for seven as spinner Jess Jonassen made a huge breakthrough to claim her second wicket.<\/p>\n<p>Seamer Megan Schutt and spinner Jess Jonassen claimed 4-18 and 3-20, respectively to help Australia defeat India in the T20 World Cup finals last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providing a major throwback to last year when Australian women lift the ICC Women\u2019s T20 Cricket World Cup on International\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":25404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1550,1551,963,1538,1534,1552,1086,1398,954],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-alyssa-healy","tag-beth-mooney","tag-harmanpreet-kaur","tag-international-womens-day","tag-shafali-verma","tag-smrithi-mandhana","tag-t20-world-cup","tag-womens-cricket","tag-womens-t20"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}