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Healy Hits Back-to-Back Tons as Australia Crush Bangladesh to Reach World Cup Semi-Finals

Player of the match Alana King set up the rout with 2 for 18, leaving Australia eyeing England next.

Overview

  • Australia coasted to 202-0 in 24.5 overs chasing 199, with Alyssa Healy 113 not out and Phoebe Litchfield 84 not out in an unbroken opening stand of 202.
  • The win made Australia the first semi-finalists and moved them top of the table on nine points with two group matches remaining.
  • Leg-spinner Alana King delivered a miserly 10-over spell of 2-18 with four maidens to control the first innings; Georgia Wareham took 2-22 and Annabel Sutherland’s two wickets kept her atop the tournament charts with 13.
  • Despite six dropped catches in an unusually ragged fielding display, Australia limited Bangladesh to 198-9, a record ODI total for Bangladesh against them led by Sobhana Mostary’s unbeaten 66 and Rubya Haider’s 44.
  • Healy’s hundred followed her 142 against India at the same venue, arrived in 73 balls as the tournament’s fastest, and anchored the highest Women’s World Cup chase without losing a wicket.