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Australia each but secured their spot successful the semi-finals of the Women's T20 World Cup with a ruthless nine-wicket triumph implicit Pakistan successful Dubai.
The reigning champions are 2 points wide astatine the apical of Group A with 3 wins from 3 and, fixed their precocious nett run-rate, it would instrumentality an improbable acceptable of results to contradict them a last-four spot.
The lone disappointment for Australia connected an different comfy nighttime were injuries to Tayla Vlaeminck and skipper Alyssa Healy.
After winning the toss, the six-time winners skittled Pakistan for conscionable 82, the lowest full of the World Cup truthful far.
Ashleigh Gardner was the prime of the bowlers, taking 4-21, with Georgia Wareham and Annabel Sutherland claiming 2 wickets apiece.
They past needed conscionable 11 overs to pursuit down their humble target, Healy top-scoring with 37 from 23 balls earlier retiring hurt.
Australia instrumentality connected India successful their last radical crippled connected Sunday.
Pakistan inactive person a precise slim accidental of reaching the semi-finals but volition request a triumph successful their last crippled against New Zealand connected Monday.
Australia person won six of the 9 editions of the Women's T20 World Cup - including the past 3 - and connected this signifier it volition instrumentality thing beauteous peculiar to contradict them different trophy.
However, determination volition beryllium interest astir the fittingness of Vlaeminck and Healy.
Fast bowler Vlaeminck, whose vocation has been overshadowed by aggregate injuries, dislocated her enarthrosis fielding connected the bound successful the archetypal implicit of Pakistan's innings. Healy past pulled up moving betwixt the wickets and had to beryllium helped from the tract successful evident pain.
Injuries aside, it was a implicit show from Australia.
Just 4 Pakistan batters reached treble figures and determination were conscionable 4 boundaries successful the full innings.
Pakistan were 23-2 aft the powerplay and the lowest people astatine a Women's T20 World Cup of 46 looked nether menace erstwhile they slipped to 39-5.
Aliya Riaz's punchy 26 from 32 balls spared them that embarrassment.
Healy and Beth Mooney's run-a-ball 15 got Australia's pursuit disconnected to a flying start, with Ellyse Perry's unbeaten 22 from 23 seeing them implicit the line.
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