Australia maintained their successful begin to the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup with a cushty 98-run win over the Netherlands on the Hampshire Bowl.
After opening the event with wins over South Africa and Bangladesh, six-time champions Australia made it three from three in Group A on Saturday.
After being put in to bat first, Australia set an imposing 219-6 from their 20 overs with the Netherlands solely capable of muster 121-3 in response.
Beth Mooney high scored for Australia with 74 from 42 balls however needed to retire harm because of again stiffness.
Her complete was complemented by strong stints from Ashleigh Gardner (58) and Georgia Wareham (41), earlier than Kim Garth (2-20) and Annabel Sutherland (1-23) took the wickets throughout an unsuccessful chase for the Dutch.
Mooney earned participant of the match honours and stated of her enforced exit: “I am all good. Simply precautionary, most likely simply not used to all of the bus journey we have been doing.
“The Southampton journey is a fairly lengthy one, so I sit up for that once more tomorrow!
“As an opening batter and top-order batter, your job is to score runs so, from my point of view, I did my job pretty well today.
“Had a few good partnerships there, first with Georgia Voll after which Ash Gardner. I believed we had been very complete and the bowlers did an awesome job limiting them to 120.”
The Netherlands have lost all three of their group games so far, although Babette de Leede caught the eye in their innings with 56 not out on her landmark 100th T20I appearance.
Robine Rijke also celebrated reaching the same milestone.
Australia next face Pakistan at Headingley on Tuesday evening, while the Netherlands return against South Africa in Bristol on Thursday.
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