Alana King, Tahlia McGrath and Ashleigh Gardner bowling power Australia Women beat Barbados Women by 9 wickets.
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The 6th Match of the Commonwealth Games Women's Cricket Competition 2022 was played yesterday bitween Australia Women vs Barbados Women at Edgbaston, Birmingham, in Australia Women beat Barbados Women by 9 wickets.
Australia Women won the toss and invited Barbados Women to bat first, Barbados Women batted first and started the inning very badly, the entire team was dismissed just for 64 runs in the final ball of the inning, Hayley Matthews scored 18 runs in 23 balls, apart from this, no any batsman could touch figure out of 10 runs, Kycia Knight dismissed just for 9 runs, Aaliyah Alleyne 8 runs, Alisa Scantlebury 8 runs, Deandra Dottin 8 runs, Kyshona Knight 5 runs, Keila Elliott 2 runs, Trishan Holder, Shakera Selman, and Shamilia Connell dismissed without scoring, and Shanika Bruce remains unbeaten for 1 run, in this way, wickets continuously failed one after another and end of the result the entire team dismissed just for 64 runs in 20 over, and set a very easy target of 65 runs in front of Australia Women.
Australian Wome bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Alana King took 4 wickets just for 8 runs in her spell, Tahlia McGrath took 3 wickets just for 13 runs in her spell, Ashleigh Gardner took 2 just for 6 runs in her spell, and Darcie Brown got 1 wicket for 22 runs.
Australian Women chasing 65 runs in the second inning achived the target very easily by losing just 1 wicket in the first ball of the 9th over and won the match by 9 wickets, Australian Women started the inning very brilliantly although the first wicket has gone very quickly, Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney came to start the inning, the first wicket has gone very quickly just for 5 runs in the second ball of the 2nd over, Beth Mooney dismissed just for 2 runs, next batsman Meg Lanning came to bat handled the inning and took the match to the victory with Alyssa Healy, Meg Lanning played a very brilliant unbeaeten victory inning of 36 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 5 boundaries in just 21 balls, and Alyssa Healy also played an unbeaten inning of 23 runs with the help of 4 boundaries in 24 balls, in this way, Australian Women chased the target very easily by losing just 1 wicket in 8.1 over and won the match by 9 wickets.
Barbados Women's bowler Shanika Bruce got 1 wicket.
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