Meg Lanning's ton leads Australia to unassailable 2-0 ODI series lead over New Zealand
Cricket | October 05, 2020 13:35 ISTThis was Australian women's team's 20th successive victory in ODIs.
This was Australian women's team's 20th successive victory in ODIs.
Australia are next scheduled to take on New Zealand in three ODIs and as many T20Is in September, the squad for which was announced by Cricket Australia on Friday.
Australia women's team captain Meg Lanning has said that every team needs to have adequate preparation time for the women's world cup.
Lanning also hoped the ODI World Cup to be held in New Zealand between February and March next year takes place.
Lanning was joined by former Ireland skipper Isobel Joyce in the initiative that took place this week to help the players keep their skills sharp during the forced break from cricket.
After the win, Meg Lanning's girls joined Perry on the stage and enthralled the crowd as she sang one of hit songs, Firework in front of a record 86174 spectators at the venue.
The skipper has been at the helm for many an Australian success but took that to a new level at the MCG, an 85-run victory over India sealing their first crown on home soil.
Poonam had bamboozled Australia in the opening game, snapping four wickets to power India to a 17-run win but Lanning urged her side to brace up for other threats including the left-arm Indian bowlers.
Austalia lost to India in their Women's World T20 campaign opener courtesy of Poonam Yadav's leg-spinning masterclass.
India will begin their campaign in the women's T20 World Cup against Australia on February 21.
Australia women's captain Meg Lanning has said that the upcoming T20 World Cup could prove to be the turning point in women's sport.
Meg Lanning will lead the Australian women's team as the side prepares to defend its title in the women's T20 World Cup.
Smriti Mandhana has taken 51 innings to reach the 2,000-ODI run mark becoming the third-fastest woman after Belinda Clark and Meg Lanning to achieve the milestone.
In the opening game of three-match T20I series, Aussie skipper Meg Lanning slammed unbeaten 133 runs in just 66 balls to register the highest T20I score in Women's T20I.
Australia and England are the only two nations who play women's Test matches mostly and Meg Lanning feels India's interest will help the format grow further.
Healy was one of the five Australians involved in the first-ever IPL women's match last year in which Trailblazers took on the Supernovas.
Last year, IPL had staged a one-off exhibition match for women players in Mumbai hinting at the possibility of the start of women’s own T20I league.
The quality of the competition can't be compromised and that is one of the reasons why a women's IPL can't be organised at the moment, reasons BCCI.
The two visiting teams had already booked a place in the final to be played on Saturday after India were knocked out following three losses.
A target of 288 in women's cricket is a tall order but India's opener Punam Raut's lack of power hurt the hosts badly as she undid all the hard work done by her opening partner Smriti Mandhana (67 off 53 balls).
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