INDIA vs AUSTRALIA Highlights CWG 2022 Final: Mooney, Gardner Guide Australia to 9-run Win; India Settles For A Silver Medal
INDIA vs AUSTRALIA Highlights CWG 2022 Final: Birmingham August 8, 2022: The Australian continued to show their dominating side. They defeated the Indian Cricket team by 9 runs and grabbed the gold medal.
Women’s cricket made its return to the Commonwealth games after 1998. It was memorable for the Indian women’s cricket team. The Indian women’s cricket team walked away with a silver medal. Australia continued to retain its winning title. They denied India a memorable gold.
After opting to bat, Australia scored 161 runs for 8 wickets. Beth Mooney knocked a scintillating half-century. Renuka Singh took an early wicket. She removed the opener Alyssa Healy who scored just 7 runs. The skipper, Meg Lanning set a big total for her team. The opener and the skipper together made 74 runs off 47 deliveries.
Finally, Radha Yadav knocked out the skipper, Lanning at 36 runs. This put the pressure back. Australia struggled to build more partnerships. the Aussies scored 83 runs for 2 wickets in 10.1 overs. but the regular wickets taken by the Indian team restricted Australia to 161 runs for 8 wickets. Renuka Singh and Sneh Rana took two wickets each. On the other hand, Deepti Sharma and Radha Yadav took one wicket each.
When India came to batting, the team showed a very unfortunate performance. India lost quick wickets and was reduced to 22 runs for 2 wickets in 2.4 overs. Thanks to the Indian Skipper who put India on top with a scintillating half-century. The partnership between the Indian Skipper and Jemimah Rodrigues together scored 96 runs from 71 deliveries. But all thanks to Mega Schutt who came to Australia’s rescue. She dismissed Rodrigues at 33 runs. Ashleigh Gardner took the hopes of India away by dismissing the Indian Captain at 65 runs.
India lost 2 wickets for 118 runs. But after the dismissal of the captain, the wickets went on to go down. India lost 8 wickets for 34 runs as Australia made a brilliant comeback. Australia retained the title of the winner by obtaining the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games 2022. Australia defeated India by bowling them all out for 152 runs in 19.3 overs.
Gardner took 3 wickets against India. Schutt 2 wickets against India. On the other hand, Darcie Brown and Jess Jonassen took one wicket each.
Despite losing the finals at the Commonwealth Games 2022, the Indian women’s cricket team made history by clinching its first medal.