Beth Mooney’s turn one of the best turns: Alyssa Healy

Colombo, October 8 (IANS). The Women’s World Cup match between Australia and Sri Lanka was played at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Wednesday. In this match, Australian batsman Beth Mooney recorded a brilliant century and led the team to an unforgettable victory. Mooney’s century was very priced by Captain Alyssa Healy. Alyssa Healy said: “I think it’s one of the best turns Moons has played so far in my career. Thanks to her, we could get on the scoreboard. At one point we tried to reach 150-160 and save it. By obtaining the fifth century of her ODI career, Beth Mooney not only got Australia out of trouble, but also took it to a score of where the team could think of victory. Mooney played a 109 -run turn in 114 balls, with 11 fours. She was on the last ball of the innings. Mooney, who came to number four, took Australia from the difficult situation of 76 runs for 7 wickets and reached 221 for 9 wickets. In this, the 106-running partnership for the ninth wicket with Alana King, who came at number ten, played an important role. Alana remained unbeaten after scoring 51 runs at 49 balls using 3 sixes and 3 fours. Mooney made a 39 running partnership with Kim Garth (11) for the eighth wicket. Australia, which lost 7 wickets for 76 in 21.2 overs, scored 221 runs for 9 wickets in 50 overs. The beginning of the target of 222 runs was the beginning of Pakistan similar to that of Australia. Pakistan also lost 6 wickets for 49 runs and 7 wickets for 78 runs. Australia came out of such a situation, Pakistan couldn’t. Pakistan was reduced to 114 runs in 36.3 overs. Sidra Amin was the best scorer by scoring 35 runs at 52 balls. Ramin Shamim scored 15 runs, Fatima Sana and Nashra Sandhu scored 11-11 runs. Apart from this, no batsman could reach double digits. Beth Mooney was the player of the match. Share this story -tags