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| ICC Women's T20 World Cup, Gqeberha: |
| Sri Lanka 112-8 (20 overs): Harshitha 34; Schutt 4-24 |
| Australia 113-0 (15.5 overs): Mooney 56*, Healy 54* |
| Australia won by 10 wickets |
| Scorecard; Group table |
Defending champions Australia moved wrong touching region of the Women's T20 World Cup semi-finals with a 10-wicket triumph implicit Sri Lanka successful Gqeberha.
Beth Mooney deed 56 not retired and Alyssa Healy added an unbeaten 54 to assistance the five-time winners pursuit down 113.
Sri Lanka had posted 112-8 with Australia's Megan Schutt taking 4-24.
Australia volition scope the past 4 arsenic radical winners if they debar decision by South Africa successful their last Group A lucifer connected Saturday.
Only a nonaccomplishment to South Africa combined with some the Proteas and Sri Lanka beating New Zealand successful their last radical matches, positive an improbable run-rate swing, volition spot Australia miss retired connected the semi-finals.
Australia's blistering pursuit against Sri Lanka was a marked opposition to their stodgy 2nd innings in their unconvincing triumph implicit Bangladesh past clip out.
Mooney scored her archetypal runs of the tourney connected her mode to a run-a-ball half-century.
Healy, whose 50 came disconnected 38 deliveries, was fortunate to past a stumping effort successful the 2nd over, but different Australia's opening brace gave small away.
Sri Lanka would person precocious consecutive to their archetypal semi-final with a triumph implicit Australia having beaten South Africa and Bangladesh successful their opening 2 matches.
And they got disconnected to a accelerated commencement aft being enactment into bat, racing to 50-1 aft the archetypal 7 overs.
But erstwhile opener Harshitha Madavi was removed for 34 disconnected 40 acknowledgment to a stunning Grace Harris diving catch, Sri Lanka's innings stalled with the adjacent 7 overs going for conscionable 19 runs.
Fast bowler Schutt helped cleanable up the process with 4 precocious wickets aft spinners Harris (2-7) and Georgia Wareham (1-20) built unit with economical bowling.
Sri Lanka tin inactive scope the past 4 with a triumph implicit New Zealand successful their last lucifer connected Sunday.
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