Overview

• After slumping to 76/7, Australia reached 221/9 as Beth Mooney made 109 and shared a women’s ODI record 106-run ninth-wicket stand with Alana King, who finished 51 not out.
• King’s 51 is the highest individual score by a No.10 or lower in women’s ODIs.
• Pakistan’s spinners had seized control early, with Nashra Sandhu taking 3/37 and Rameen Shamim two wickets on a slow, turning R. Premadasa surface.
• The chase folded to 114 in 36.3 overs as Kim Garth (3/14), Megan Schutt (2/25) and Annabel Sutherland (2/15) led a clinical bowling display, with Sidra Amin top-scoring on 35.
• Australia moved to the top of the table on five points and remain unbeaten, while Pakistan suffered a third straight defeat before England on Oct 15, with Australia to face India on Oct 12.