Star's heroics power Aussie 'machine' to finals

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Australia clinched a spot successful the semi-finals of the Women's T20 World Cup by beating South Africa and ending the radical signifier with 4 wins from four.

It was a ascendant Tahlia McGrath who led the mode with the bat, reaching her half-century in 29 deliveries and finishing connected 57 disconnected 33.

She posted an 81-run concern with Ashleigh Gardner to steer the Aussies home.

Commentator Mel Jones called it McGrath's "second coming" aft a drawstring of injuries hampered her vocation successful caller years.

"They are a instrumentality and they are playing immoderate superior cricket astatine the moment," ex-England skipper Nasser Hussain said of Australia.

Australia, the top-ranked squad and defending champion, was awesome again to cruise past South Africa by six wickets, comfortably chasing down the tourney host's 6-124 and finshing connected 4-125 with much than 3 overs to spare.

Australia was without injured opening batter and wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy but that made nary quality to the performance.

Middle-order batter McGrath thumped 10 fours successful her 57 from 33 balls arsenic Australia raced to triumph and was confirmed arsenic the Group 1 winner.

England came done its toughest trial yet by holding disconnected India by 11 runs successful their top-of-the-table gathering successful Group 2.

India, which besides came into the crippled successful Gqeberha unbeaten, fell abbreviated of England's full of 7-151 contempt 52 from opener Smriti Mandhana and different warring innings astatine the extremity by wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh, who made 47 not retired but wasn't capable to instrumentality her squad location this time.

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India managed lone 5-140 and England is wide astatine the apical of the radical and wrong a whisker of a spot successful the past four. England plays Pakistan successful its past radical crippled connected Wednesday (AEDT).

England began the crippled nether unit erstwhile seamer Renuka Singh struck successful each of her archetypal 3 overs, removing Danni Wyatt for a duck, Alice Capsey for 3 and Sophia Dunkley for 10.

Nat Sciver-Brunt rescued England from 3-29 with her 50 from 42 balls, and her partnerships of 51 with Heather Knight and 40 with Amy Jones ensured the English posted a competitory full astatine St George's Park.

Mandhana was up for the challenge, crashing 7 fours and a six. But she fell successful the 16th implicit and consecutive aft hitting her six, caught astatine long-on attempting different large shot, to permission India excessively overmuch to do.

“It’s bully to spot that our batting radical showed quality adjacent aft 29 for 3,” England skipper Knight said.

“We haven’t truly played against a large squad precocious and to play similar this against this Indian squad was fantastic.”

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