Sophie Molineux was a left-field pick as captain and the transition has not been seamless but nothing shuts down criticism like a World Cup win Players in the Australian women’s cricket team are not accustomed to being without at least one of the two global trophies. Many moons ago, there was a gap of 11 months after they bombed in the semi-finals of both tournaments in 2009, but they fixed that with the next edition of the T20 competition in 2010. Their longest wait was 16 months between the semi-final ambush by Harmanpreet Kaur in 2017 and the T20 win in Antigua the following year. The third and final gap ended on Sunday at Lord’s, eight whole months since Australia lost their one-day title in India last November.This is what passes for scarcity in Australian terms: a lost semi-final in the T20 tournament in 2024, and another in the one-day version in 2025. Beth Mooney, a player who before this victory had already won four World Cups and Commonwealth Games gold, said of her build-up that she “just woke up in the morning pretty grateful we made it this far.” Having presumably filled in her gratitude journal, she proceeded to make 64 from 49 balls to wrap up the voting on player of the match and player of the tournament. Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Australia Sport
