'Unlucky' run out gifts Aussies path to T20 final

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Australia reached its seventh consecutive Women's T20 World Cup last by holding disconnected India to triumph by 5 runs.

Chasing Australia's 4-172, India was 3-28 earlier a rally by the mediate and lower-order gave it a accidental of an upset against the two-time defending champion and top-ranked team.

India needed 20 disconnected the past 12 balls of the semi last aft Jemimah Rodrigues (43 disconnected 24 balls), skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (52 disconnected 34) and Deepti Sharma (20 not retired disconnected 17) dragged the past World Cup's losing finalist backmost into contention.

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Left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen bowled a superb penultimate implicit for Australia, holding India to conscionable 4 runs disconnected those six balls and claiming the wicket of Sneh Rana, who was bowled for 11.

With 16 needed disconnected the past implicit to win, oregon 15 to necktie the scores and unit a Super Over, India got 10 and fell conscionable abbreviated astatine 8-167.

“One of the champion wins I’ve been progressive in,” Australia skipper Meg Lanning said. “India came hard astatine america truthful we knew this people would beryllium hard to defend. But we pulled done successful the clutch moments.”

The important wicket for the Aussies came earlier erstwhile Rodrigues tried to ramp a abbreviated shot implicit wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy but lone succeeded successful edging it to Healy. That ended a concern of 69 with Kaur that had enactment India up of the required tally complaint aft 10 overs.

Australia began to instrumentality power again erstwhile Kaur fell tally retired aft getting her bat stuck successful the crushed arsenic she tried to descent it into the crease.

"Can’t beryllium unluckier than that," Kaur said of her tally out. “Putting the effort successful was important and we were blessed to spell to the past ball. We wanted to combat till the past ball.”

Australia has won 5 of the 7 T20 World Cups played, lone missing retired successful 2016 erstwhile it mislaid to West Indies successful the last and successful the archetypal tourney successful 2009 erstwhile it mislaid successful the semis.

It has present made each last aft 2009 and volition play either England oregon big South Africa, who conscionable successful the 2nd semi-final connected Saturday morning.

Australia's people against India was down to its apical 4 batters, with Healy getting 25, chap opener Beth Mooney 54 disconnected 37, Lanning 49 not retired and Ashleigh Gardner 31 from 18.

India besides paid for a mates of important misses. Wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh dropped a drawback disconnected Lanning erstwhile the Aussie skipper was connected 1. Mooney was dropped connected 32.

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