2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20
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The 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20 was an international Twenty20 cricket
tournament which was held in the West Indies from 5 May to 16 May 2010. The group stage matches were played at the Warner Park Sporting Complex
on Saint Kitts
. It was won by Australia, who defeated New Zealand in the final. Nicola Browne
was named as player of the tournament.
elected to bat, but New Zealand started more effectively. Their opening fast bowler
Nicola Browne
bowled her quota of four overs straight through, taking 2/11. She removed opener Elyse Villani
, for six, caught at cover. Blackwell was then out for 0, cutting into the hands of Devine in the gully. Shelley Nitschke
had earlier been trapped leg before wicket
by Sian Ruck
for three. This was following by a partnership of 30 between Leah Poulton
and Jess Cameron
, but they were unable to lift the run rate
substantially; their stand took 45 balls. Poulton was out trying to loft a ball over cover, and two balls later, Cameron was bowled from Kate Broadmore's first ball, leaving Australia at 5/51 in the 13th over. Only Poulton managed a solitary boundary. Wicket-keeper Alyssa Healy
scored 10 from as many balls, but was then run out
attempting a second run after being dropped by Sara McGlashan
.
The total was boosted by Sarah Elliott
, who made 19 not out from 20 balls, and Lisa Sthalekar
(18 off 13), putting on 27 from 22 balls. Sthalekar was bowled by Sophie Devine
after moving across outside off stump and trying to paddle scoop
the ball down to fine leg. The innings ended with a one-handed catch by New Zealand captain Aimee Watkins, who leapt high at cover to prevent a drive from Rene Farrell
going for four.
New Zealand started their chase solidly. Suzie Bates
pulled the first ball of the innings for two and hit a six over long-on in the second over, bowled by Rene Farrell
. However, in the fourth over, but Watkins' pull from the bowling of Clea Smith was taken by a leaping Blackwell at midwicket. In the next over Blackwell ran out McGlashan for 1, after the latter had been in a mix-up with Bates, leaving New Zealand at 2/19. In the next over Bates tried to pull Ellyse Perry
down the ground and was caught by Elliott, who ran across from mid-off. The following over, Perry uprooted Amy Satterthwaite
's off stump with a ball that kept low and New Zealand were in trouble at 4/29 in the seventh over.
For the next 21 balls, the new batsmen Devine and Rachel Priest
struggled to score, accumulating only seven runs in this period. At this time, the spin of Nitschke (1/10) and Sthalekar (0/19) contained the New Zealand batting. During this phase, Priest was given out stumped by Healy after the television umpire Asad Rauf
had pressed the wrong button and had to retract his decision. Soon after she hit Nitschke to Blackwell and New Zealand were at 5/36 after 11 overs, leaving them with 71 runs to score from the last 54 balls.
This brought Browne to the crease and she put on 41 from as many balls in partnership with Devine, who ended with 38 not out from 35 balls. However, they could not score quickly, with a total of only two fours and one six. In the 18th over, Browne was caught behind for 20 from Perry. Devine hit a four and a six from the last two balls of the 19th over bowled by Farrell to leave New Zealand requiring 14 runs from the last over, which Perry bowled.
A single from the first ball put Devine on strike, and she hit four consecutive twos. Devine required five runs from the last ball to win and she struck a powereful straight drive. Perry, who has played football for Australia, stuck out her right foot and the ball deflected to mid-on where Sthalekar stopped the ball and only one run was scored. This sealed an Australian win by three runs. Perry was named the player of the match for her 3/18.
Women's Twenty20 cricket
Women's Twenty20 cricket is the newly emerging use of the Twenty20 match format in women's cricket. While both women's cricket and Twenty20 have themselves enjoyed recent success, women's Twenty20 has only been an international cricket game format since 2004...
tournament which was held in the West Indies from 5 May to 16 May 2010. The group stage matches were played at the Warner Park Sporting Complex
Warner Park Sporting Complex
Warner Park Sporting Complex is an athletic facility in Basseterre, St. Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis. It includes the Warner Park Stadium, which was one of the hosts for the 2007 Cricket World Cup....
on Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts Saint Kitts Saint Kitts (also known more formally as Saint Christopher Island (Saint-Christophe in French) is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean...
. It was won by Australia, who defeated New Zealand in the final. Nicola Browne
Nicola Browne
Nicola Jane Browne is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the New Zealand in the women's one-day internationals and plays for the Northern Districts in the State League. She played in the 2005 and 2009 Women's Cricket World Cups, and was player of the series in the 2010 ICC Women's World...
was named as player of the tournament.
Groups
| Group A | Group B |
|---|---|
| (1) (3) (5) (7) |
(2) (4) (6) (8) |
Group A
| Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | −1.617 | 0 |
Group B
| Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | −1.950 | 2 | |
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | −1.733 | 0 |
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Final
After captain Alex BlackwellAlex Blackwell (cricketer)
Alexandra Joy Blackwell is a female cricketer who plays for New South Wales and Australia as a specialist batsman. Her identical twin sister Kate has also played for Australia....
elected to bat, but New Zealand started more effectively. Their opening fast bowler
Fast bowling
Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
Nicola Browne
Nicola Browne
Nicola Jane Browne is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the New Zealand in the women's one-day internationals and plays for the Northern Districts in the State League. She played in the 2005 and 2009 Women's Cricket World Cups, and was player of the series in the 2010 ICC Women's World...
bowled her quota of four overs straight through, taking 2/11. She removed opener Elyse Villani
Elyse Villani
Elyse Jane Villani is an Australian women's cricketer who played one match for Australia in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20. She plays for Victorian Spirit in the Women's National Cricket League.-External links:...
, for six, caught at cover. Blackwell was then out for 0, cutting into the hands of Devine in the gully. Shelley Nitschke
Shelley Nitschke
Shelley Nitschke is a female cricketer who plays for South Australia and Australia. A left-handed batsman and left arm orthodox spinner, she is one of the leading all-rounders in the world....
had earlier been trapped leg before wicket
Leg before wicket
In the sport of cricket, leg before wicket is one of the ways in which a batsman can be dismissed. An umpire will rule a batsman out LBW under a series of circumstances which primarily include the ball striking the batsman's body when it would otherwise have continued on to hit the batsman's...
by Sian Ruck
Sian Ruck
Sian Elizabeth Ansley Ruck is a New Zealand international cricketer. She was born in December 1983 in Auckland and plays for Wellington Women and New Zealand. She made her Twenty20 debut against Australia in June 2009 and was an integral part of the New Zealand team which reached the final of the...
for three. This was following by a partnership of 30 between Leah Poulton
Leah Poulton
Leah Joy Poulton is a female Australian cricketer who plays for New South Wales and Australia. She is a specialist batsman who usually opens the batting....
and Jess Cameron
Jess Cameron
Jessica Evelyn Cameron is an Australian cricketer. A batsman, she is a current member of the Australian women's cricket team.Cameron made her debut for Victoria in the 2006–07 Women's National Cricket League...
, but they were unable to lift the run rate
Run rate
In cricket, the run rate , or runs per over is the number of runs a batsman scores in an over of 6 balls. It includes all runs, even the so-called extras awarded due to errors by the bowler. Without extras and overthrows, the maximum run rate is 36 – if every ball were struck for six and, as...
substantially; their stand took 45 balls. Poulton was out trying to loft a ball over cover, and two balls later, Cameron was bowled from Kate Broadmore's first ball, leaving Australia at 5/51 in the 13th over. Only Poulton managed a solitary boundary. Wicket-keeper Alyssa Healy
Alyssa Healy
Alyssa Jean Healy is a cricketer who plays for New South Wales and the Australian women's team...
scored 10 from as many balls, but was then run out
Run out
Run out is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket. It is governed by Law 38 of the Laws of cricket.-The rules:A batsman is out Run out if at any time while the ball is in play no part of his bat or person is grounded behind the popping crease and his wicket is fairly put down by the opposing...
attempting a second run after being dropped by Sara McGlashan
Sara McGlashan
Sara Jade McGlashan is a New Zealand cricketer who has played two women's test matches, 80 women's one-day internationals and 16 Twenty20 matches for the New Zealand. She is the sister of Peter McGlashan. She plays for the Central Districts in the State League.-References:...
.
The total was boosted by Sarah Elliott
Sarah Elliott
Sarah Jane Elliott is a female international cricketer for Australia. A right-handed batsman who also bowls leg spin, she made her international debut in 2005, but did not gain a regular position in the team until 2010....
, who made 19 not out from 20 balls, and Lisa Sthalekar
Lisa Sthalekar
Lisa Carprini Sthalekar is a female cricketer who plays for Australia, and captains New South Wales. One of the key players in the team, she is a right-handed all rounder who bowls off spin, and was rated as the leading all rounder in the world when rankings were introduced...
(18 off 13), putting on 27 from 22 balls. Sthalekar was bowled by Sophie Devine
Sophie Devine
Sophie Frances Monique Devine is a member of the New Zealand women's cricket team.-External links:*...
after moving across outside off stump and trying to paddle scoop
Paddle scoop
A paddle scoop is a modern cricketing shot, similar to the Marillier shot, used more and more often in One Day International and Twenty20 cricket matches since appearing in the early 21st century. The shot is performed by positioning the body square-on with the ball; with both feet pointing towards...
the ball down to fine leg. The innings ended with a one-handed catch by New Zealand captain Aimee Watkins, who leapt high at cover to prevent a drive from Rene Farrell
Rene Farrell
Rene Farrell is an Australian cricketer. A fast-medium pace bowler, she is a current member of the Australian team.Although Farrell was successful in age-group interstate cricket, she did not make her senior debut for New South Wales until late in the 2006–07 season a month before turning 20...
going for four.
New Zealand started their chase solidly. Suzie Bates
Suzie Bates
Suzannah Wilson Bates is a New Zealand cricketer. She plays for the White Ferns and the Otago Sparks in the State League as well as for her national team...
pulled the first ball of the innings for two and hit a six over long-on in the second over, bowled by Rene Farrell
Rene Farrell
Rene Farrell is an Australian cricketer. A fast-medium pace bowler, she is a current member of the Australian team.Although Farrell was successful in age-group interstate cricket, she did not make her senior debut for New South Wales until late in the 2006–07 season a month before turning 20...
. However, in the fourth over, but Watkins' pull from the bowling of Clea Smith was taken by a leaping Blackwell at midwicket. In the next over Blackwell ran out McGlashan for 1, after the latter had been in a mix-up with Bates, leaving New Zealand at 2/19. In the next over Bates tried to pull Ellyse Perry
Ellyse Perry
Ellyse Alexandra Perry is an Australian sportswoman who made her debut for both the Australian cricket and football teams at the age of 16. She played her first cricket international in July 2007 before earning her first football cap for Australia a month later...
down the ground and was caught by Elliott, who ran across from mid-off. The following over, Perry uprooted Amy Satterthwaite
Amy Satterthwaite
Amy Ella Satterthwaite is a New Zealand cricketer . She was born on 7 October 1986 in Christchurch, Canterbury and plays for Canterbury Women as a left-handed batsman and right arm medium pace bowler....
's off stump with a ball that kept low and New Zealand were in trouble at 4/29 in the seventh over.
For the next 21 balls, the new batsmen Devine and Rachel Priest
Rachel Priest
Rachel Holly Priest is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the Central Districts Hinds in the State League. She was born in New Plymouth. She was the wicketkeeper in New Zealand's unsuccessful 2009 World Cup campaign. She also kept wicket for the team.-References:*...
struggled to score, accumulating only seven runs in this period. At this time, the spin of Nitschke (1/10) and Sthalekar (0/19) contained the New Zealand batting. During this phase, Priest was given out stumped by Healy after the television umpire Asad Rauf
Asad Rauf
Asad Rauf, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, was a first class cricketer and is now a member of the Emirates ICC Elite Umpire Panel.- Playing Days :His career as a first-class cricket player lasted from 1977/78 to 1991/92...
had pressed the wrong button and had to retract his decision. Soon after she hit Nitschke to Blackwell and New Zealand were at 5/36 after 11 overs, leaving them with 71 runs to score from the last 54 balls.
This brought Browne to the crease and she put on 41 from as many balls in partnership with Devine, who ended with 38 not out from 35 balls. However, they could not score quickly, with a total of only two fours and one six. In the 18th over, Browne was caught behind for 20 from Perry. Devine hit a four and a six from the last two balls of the 19th over bowled by Farrell to leave New Zealand requiring 14 runs from the last over, which Perry bowled.
A single from the first ball put Devine on strike, and she hit four consecutive twos. Devine required five runs from the last ball to win and she struck a powereful straight drive. Perry, who has played football for Australia, stuck out her right foot and the ball deflected to mid-on where Sthalekar stopped the ball and only one run was scored. This sealed an Australian win by three runs. Perry was named the player of the match for her 3/18.
External links
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