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After 6 overs,Australia Women 36/1 ( Beth Mooney 15 , Ashleigh Gardner 0)
Maiden over for Shabnim Ismail, with in-form opener Beth Mooney unable to pierce the off-side cordon. The seamer ends the over with a steep bouncer to the southpaw to collect a maiden inside the powerplay!
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OUT! Kapp draws first blood for the Proteas, bouncing Healy out as the Aussie wicketkeeper-batter tamely chips the short delivery towards cover to depart for 18! AUS 36/1
Healy c de Klerk b Kapp 18(20)
18:49 (IST)
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After 4 overs,Australia Women 25/0 ( Alyssa Healy (W) 13 , Beth Mooney 10)
FOUR! Tickled away through the gap between backward point and third man by Mooney, who moves to double figures in the process, off Khaka at the end of the fourth over. The Aussie opening stand is starting to look ominous now for the Proteas.
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After 2 overs,Australia Women 13/0 ( Alyssa Healy (W) 10 , Beth Mooney 1)
FOUR! Shabnim Ismail, bowling the second over, bowls one short and wide to Healy, who promptly slaps it over cover to collect her second boundary. Later in the over, the Proteas burn a review after an unsuccessful LBW appeal against Healy, with the ball easily missing leg.
18:38 (IST)
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After 1 over,Australia Women 5/0 ( Alyssa Healy (W) 5 , Beth Mooney 0)
Tidy first over from Nonkululeko Mlaba barring the boundary in the second ball, with the left-arm spinner bowling four dots that elicit a few cheers from the Newlands crowd. Healy collects a single off the last ball to keep the strike.
18:35 (IST)
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FOUR! Healy gets down on one knee and sweeps Mlaba towards deep square leg to open Australia's account with a boundary! AUS 4/0
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The national anthems have been sung (with South African all-rounder Marizanne Kapp overcome with emotion, barely able to sing Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika), and it's time for one final round of action in what has been a remarkable tournament so far.
Healy and Mooney walk out to open the Aussie innings, with left-arm spinner Mlaba opening the bowling for the Proteas.
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Pommie Mbangwa and Lisa Sthalekar analyse the Newlands pitch ahead of the final:
PM: What a beautiful day. Not a cloud in the sky. This is the exact conditions you want in a final. This tournament has been the highest scoring of all Women’s T20 World Cups, and that’s something. Chasing will be a bit more difficult.
LS: I see a used pitch from the two semi-finals, and that will help the spinners. The fast bowlers have been exceptional. Shabnim Ismail and Darcie Brown are the two to watch out. Whoever can cope with short-pitched deliveries will come out better.
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Teams:
Australia: Alyssa Healy (wk), Beth Mooney, Meg Lanning (c), Ashleigh Gardner, Ellyse Perry, Tahlia McGrath, Grace Harris, Georgia Wareham, Jess Jonassen, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown
South Africa: Laura Wolvaardt, Tazmin Brits, Marizanne Kapp, Sune Luus (c), Chloe Tryon, Nadine de Klerk, Anneke Bosch, Sinalo Jafta (wk), Shabnim Ismail, Ayabonga Khaka, Nonkululeko Mlaba
18:09 (IST)
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Here's what the two captains said at the toss:
Meg Lanning, Australia: We feel it’s a good wicket, and we hope to start off well. We are going with the same team, we feel we have got all the bases covered. I’m very proud to be able to lead this group. We’ve got a job to do and can’t wait to get out there.
Sune Luus, South Africa: Obviously we would’ve liked to bat first as well, but don’t think the surface will change too much. We are going with the same team. It’s been unreal. Important to stay as calm as possible and do out best.
18:04 (IST)
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TOSS: Australia win the toss, and captain Meg Lanning opts to bat
18:00 (IST)
Final touches before the big game in Newlands!
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17:51 (IST)
Spirited SA face uphill task against mighty Aussies
South Africa showed commendable fighting spirit to upset England in the semi-final but they will need to stitch together a perfect game to topple the mighty Australia, who are the record five-time champions and are in their seventh successive final.
17:47 (IST)
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the 2023 T20 World Cup final, with defending champions Australia taking on hosts South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town on Sunday. The Southern Stars will aim to extend their domination on the sport with a sixth world title in the shortest format while the Proteas will aim to script history by achieving something that no South African team, men or women, has achieved at the senior level before — win a World Cup. They already have achieved a first by reaching the final, and are now one step away from the ultimate glory.
Australia vs South Africa preview: South Africa’s women cricketers will go where none of their male counterparts have gone when they contest their very first World Cup final at Newlands in Cape Town on Sunday.
The hosts reached the final of the women’s T20 World Cup with a thrilling six-run win over England but now they will be up against Australia, a team of proven World Cup winners, who have won five of the previous six T20 finals.
The Aussies also had a tight semi-final when they edged past India by just five runs but they are loaded with experience which their captain Meg Lanning believes will help them in the pressure moments.
“Having been in pressure situations before helps a lot,” said Lanning on Saturday.
“We’re not going to be the team that everyone’s cheering for.
“We’re expecting South Africa to come out to play to their full strength and they’re riding a wave of emotion as well.
“I expect an incredible atmosphere and an incredible game at an amazing venue. It’s a World Cup final and there’s nowhere to hide.”
Lanning said there would be pressure on both teams.
“It comes down to holding your nerve under pressure,” she said.
Following South Africa’s dramatic upset of England in Friday’s semi-final, there were queues outside the ground on Saturday as new-found followers of the women’s game sought to buy tickets.
That win was accompanied by scenes of unbridled joy as 7500 spectators inside the ground cheered them on.
Sunday’s crowd is expected to be considerably bigger with the game marking a watershed moment at an iconic venue that hosted its first men’s Test match in 1889.
No South African team, men or women, had previously gone beyond the semi-finals of either a 50-overs or T20 World Cup.
“We’ve always known we had the ability to get to a final, I think it was just to get through that semi-final,” said South African captain Sune Luus.
‘The Best v The Best’
While Australia stormed through the group stages before being pushed all the way by India in the semi-finals, South Africa lost two of their first three games.
They looked anything but championship contenders when they lost the tournament opening match against Sri Lanka and they went down by six wickets in a group match against Australia in Gqeberha.
“We were 20, 30, 40 runs short in that game,” said Luus.
“We know they (Australia) have a very strong batting line-up and they bat extremely deep.
“Whether we bat first or second we know we have to put up a good fight. We know they’re going to keep fighting. We saw that in their semi-final against India.”
Luus said South Africa had a strong pace bowling attack and she expected an “even contest” between her bowlers and the Australia batters.
“It’s going to be the best in the world against the best in the world.”
Luus, 27, said the discussion before the semi-final had been on how to handle the big occasion.
“Everybody was hyped up and excited but we said before the game that the team that is the calmest is going to get over the finish line. I think tomorrow is going to be no different.”
Tazmin Brits, 32, who until the retirement of big-hitting Lizelle Lee last year was not an automatic choice for the team, made herself a national heroine by hitting top score of 68 and holding four catches in a remarkable display of big-match temperament.
She found herself on the front and back pages of Saturday’s newspapers.
“She’s got a lot of self-belief. It’s been years of hard work that finally came together,” said coach Hilton Moreeng.
Probable teams:
South Africa: Sune Luus (captain), Laura Wolvaardt, Tazmin Brits, Marizanne Kapp, Chloe Tryon, Anneke Bosch, Nadine de Klerk, Sinalo Jafta (wkt), Shabnim Ismail, Ayabonga Khaka, Nonkululeko Mlaba
Australia: Meg Lanning (captain), Alyssa Healy (wkt), Beth Mooney, Ash Gardner, Ellyse Perry, Tahlia McGrath, Grace Harris, Georgia Wareham, Jess Jonassen, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown
With inputs from AFP
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