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Schutt and Mooney gave Australia its first win in World Cup 2024
In a conflict between the Title holders and the Asian Bosses, Megan Schutt drove areas of strength for an exhibition before Beth Mooney scored an unbeaten 43 to fire Australia to a fairly agreeable six-wicket prevail upon Sri Lanka in Sharjah. Schutt's 3 for 12 held Sri Lanka down to only 93 out of 20 overs, an objective that Australia pursued down with six wickets and 34 balls in excess. The loss, Sri Lanka's second in two games, leaves them unsafely set in the Gathering A standings.
At the throw, Chamari Athapaththu said she was worried about her batting unit. Her apprehensions weren't relieved after 20 overs. Truth be told, Sri Lanka dealt with no run off the bat in the initial two overs before opener Vishmi Gunaratne was in the end finally given some closure for a 10-ball duck by another of Megan Schutt's roaring inswingers that struck the hitter plumb in front.
Sri Lanka's expectations of getting to a serious complete laid on their supernatural chief, yet briefly game in succession, Athapaththu was delivered frail to drag her group out of the soil. She endeavored to clear Debris Gardner however when she missed, she was in a difficult situation as Australia looked for the DRS that approved the energy in their requests.
That Sri Lanka oversaw even 23 gets in the PowerPlay was down to Darcie Earthy colored's battles without any balls in the 6th over of the innings. Earthy colored foot blamed threefold and between those she sent down a wide and furthermore yielded a four with a half-volley. Brown, who dumbfounded only that one, later dropped a genuinely direct catch to relief Harshitha Madavi at additional cover.
Those little slips by aside, Australia were basically on the cash with the ball, offering only four limits through the course of the innings. Madavi scored two of those prior to falling in the thirteenth over for a 35-ball 23, hitting a catch right back at Sophie Molineux (2 for 20). Nilakshi de Silva dove in to add volume to the aggregate however her unbeaten 29 off 40 highlighted not a solitary limit. Guardian bat Anushka Sanjeewani gave a short ripple right toward the end by striking a couple of limits in her 15-ball 16.
In any case, when she was excused in the last over to Schutt, who likewise took out Sugandika Kumari off the exceptionally next ball to get done with remarkable figures of 4-1-12-3 as Sri Lanka collapsed for a complete under 100. They would be passed on to lament not getting something like 20 additional runs and keeping in mind that even that might not have changed the outcome, it might have put Australia under more tension than they ended up in the wake of slipping to 35 for 3 under the draining intensity of Sharjah.
Commander Alyssa Healy tumbled to an amazing conveyance from Udeshika Prabodhani that molded away from the star player's endeavored goad to raise a ruckus around town of off-stump. Kavisha Dilhari then, at that point, ran Georgia Wareham out with an astounding get and toss. It got Ellyse Perry to the center and the veteran all-rounder got off to a lively beginning by scoring three fours from the initial 10 balls she confronted. She was, be that as it may, skillfully set up by left-arm spinner Sugandika Kumari who followed a somewhat short conveyance with a more full one and figured out how to get the hitter with her weight on the back foot. Kumari additionally tracked down sufficient side twist to beat Perry's guards and raised a ruckus around town.
Any feelings of trepidation of a breakdown, however, were scattered away rather rapidly as Mooney and Debris Gardner added 27 in the following four overs to take Australia to 62 for 3 after 10 overs. Mooney battled with the intensity and her endeavors to hit out almost brought about her excusal off Inoka Ranaweera however a dropped opportunity permitted her to continue. The sets of Mooney and Gardner added 43 rushes to really take care of the challenge. Gardner fell for 12 however Mooney stayed undefeated to see her group over the line.
Brief scores: Sri Lanka 93/7 in 20 overs (Nilakshi de Silva 29*; Megan Schutt 3-12, Sophie Molineux 2-20) lost to Australia 94/4 in 14.2 overs (Beth Mooney 43*; Udeshika Prabodhani 1-19) by six wickets