Bottom of the table Pakistan seemed poised to create the biggest upset in this Women’s Cricket World Cup bending defending Champions Australia on their knees reeling on 7 wickets down for 70 with Alyssa Healy’s high riders staring st certain defeat.
But all that melted before the bat of Beth Mooney who stood her end in that wicket havoc to single handedly blaze her way to an astounding century to shift the scales to a dramatic 114 run triumph in Colombo on Wednesday night one thing: Beth Mooney.
Before Mooney, Pakistans spinners spun a web around the awesome Australian bstting line up courtrsy Nashra Sandhu, Sadia Iqbal, and Rameem Shamin backed by excellent fielding as underdogs Pakistan looked like pulling off what none of Australia’s previous opponentsh had failed to do with wicketkeeper Sidra Nawaz brilliant behind the stumps, the stumping off Ellyse Perry the turning point when Pakistan was in the box seat.
But Mooney lived up to her ace in the pack tall reputation in taking it to a final 36 assault off the last two overs in rendering the Pakistan bowlers hapless.
Australia 221 for 9 (Mooney 109, King 51*, Sandhu 3-37) beat Pakistan 114 (Amin 35, Garth 3-14, Sutherland 2-15, Schutt 2-25) by 107 runs