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Dubai, 12 October (HIST). Australia registered their 14th consecutive win in the Women's T20 World Cup with a 9-wicket win over Pakistan at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday. With this victory, the Australian team maintained its position at the top of Group A.
Chasing a modest target of 83 runs, the defending champions lost the wicket of Beth Mooney early. On the total score of 36, Sadia Iqbal gave the first blow to Pakistan by sending Beth Mooney to the pavilion. Mooney scored 15 runs on 15 balls.
At the other end, Healy continued her attack, however with the total at 69 in the 10th over, captain Alyssa Healy got injured while taking a sharp single and was retired hurt. He scored 37 runs on 23 balls. After this, Ellyse Perry (22) and Ashley Gardner (07) did not allow any further loss and gave Australia victory by scoring 83 runs at the loss of 1 wicket in the 11th over.
Earlier, Australia won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat. Australia initially suffered a setback with a shoulder injury to fast bowler Tayla Vlaeminck. Despite this, Australia took two wickets for only 23 runs of Pakistan in the first six overs. Muniba Ali was out on 7 runs after being caught by Phoebe Litchfield off the ball of Sophie Molineux and after that Sadaf Shamas returned to the pavilion after being caught behind the wicket off the ball of Megan Schutt on 3 runs. However, after this Pakistan's wickets kept falling at regular intervals.
Sidra Amin was sent to the pavilion by Annabel Sutherland on the score of 12 runs. After that Georgia Wareham dismissed Omaima Sohail on the score of 3 runs, which made Pakistan's situation worse. From here, Aliya Riaz scored 26 runs on 32 balls and took Pakistan to the total score of 82 runs.
For Australia, Ashley Gardner took four wickets for 21 runs in four overs. Annabel Sutherland and Georgia Wareham took two wickets each.
