The final match of ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2023 was played between Australia vs South Africa at Newlands Cape Town.
Australia won the toss and chose to bat. The Australian Team added 36 runs for the first wicket, then Kapp dismissed Healy on his personal score of 18 runs.
Mooney and Gardner made a very good partnership for the second wicket and took their team's score to 82 runs. Gardner performed well, scoring 29 runs in 21 balls.
But after this there was no big partnership of the Australia team and wickets kept falling one after the other. But a thief was handled well by Mooney and kept the wickets and he played a crucial innings of 70 runs in 53 balls for herself and his team and took the Team's score to 156.
South African fast bowler Ismail bowled well and took two wickets for 26 runs in his 4 overs. South African all-rounder Kapp got two wickets and Mlaba and Tryon got one wicket each.
Chasing 157 runs, South African Team needed a good start, but South Africa lost their first wicket in the form of Brits for 17 runs in 5 hours. Kapp also could not do anything special and he scored 11 runs in just 11 balls and gave his wicket to Gardner.
South Africa suffered a huge blow in the form of the run out of their Captain Luus. The only good partnership for South Africa was between Wolvaardt and Tryon who added 55 runs for the Team.
Australian bowlers Schutt, Gardner, Brown and Jonassen took one wicket each.
Beth Mooney was adjudged Player of the match. Ashleigh Gardner was named Player of the Series for the ICC Women's T20 World Cup Tournament.
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