5.20 pm So that's one final done and dusted, Australia pose with the trophy and off goes the team song again. Thank you for your company and hope you pop over to the men's final that is due to start in a couple of hours' time. This is Alagappan Muthu, signing off
"It's amazing. great to be able to play so well. Almost the perfect match today," Meg Lanning says, "Bowlers did it for us, we had our plans and we executed well. Perhaps, we're attacking in nature and we love to play our shots. Even chasing a small total we wanted to be positive. We had a great team here and the support's been so good. I'm just really happy right now. We've had a lot of experience even though we are young, we can build something really big. We have a great core of players"
"They bowled very well and they came out and batted good. We just weren't enough today,"Charlotte Edwards says, "Backed it up in the field. We never got going, kept losing wickets at key stages. 105 was never going to be enough in a World Cup final. Anya's been exceptional, all the bowlers have been. [Six-hitting] A scenario we have to improve on. In the past our strength is boundary hitting and we'll go back to work on and hopefully we go better. Just bitterly disappointed we couldn't get over the line"
Anya Shrubsole is the Player of the Tournament "It's been a really good tournament. As a team we can be proud of what we've done. Just keeping it simple and it seems to have worked. Congratulations to Meg and her team, they were the better team today"
5.10 pm Sarah Coyte is the Player of the Match "I'm not sure I can put it into words. Amazing feeling. So proud. To get Taylor and Edwards, two world class betters early was so great. Disciplined lines and lengths was what I've been working on and it came through"
4.55 pm Australia have showed off their ball-striking ability today and that is where they've got the better of England. They're still huddled by the pitch, the Aussie flag is in the middle and they're belting of the team song. "We are the Southern Stars, Wooo!" they scream. Meg Lanning led from the front and she looked in no trouble whatsoever. Her 44 off 30 balls took her to the top of the tree in the run-scorers list for the tournament
Naveed Khawaja: "Outstanding Australia for its historical achievements...its not easy as we saw....so congrats to Aussies...."
john stone: "Bad toss to lose? I think we would have fielded first if we had won it. Seems to me one is better served to know the required run rate. Our girls are still heroes and deserve recognition for their sterling effort. What would have happened if young Knight had been allowed to continue for another five or six overs?"
END OF OVER:15 | 3 Runs 2 Wkts | AUS-W: 105/4 (1 run required from 30 balls, RR: 7.00, RRR: 0.20)
- Ellyse Perry30 (31b)
- Nat Sciver-Brunt2-0-12-2
- Rebecca Grundy4-0-22-0
AJ Blackwell lbw b Sciver 0 (2m 3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
Alex Blackwell comes out
MM Lanning c Knight b Sciver 44 (40m 30b 4x4 2x6) SR: 146.66
Australia are huddled together on the boundary, waiting for the winning runs
END OF OVER:14 | 7 Runs | AUS-W: 102/2 (4 runs required from 36 balls, RR: 7.28, RRR: 0.66)
- Ellyse Perry30 (30b)
- Meg Lanning43 (27b)
- Rebecca Grundy4-0-22-0
- Anya Shrubsole4-0-29-1
Fahad: "Can we borrow Lanning to play instead of Shoaib Malik? "
END OF OVER:13 | 11 Runs | AUS-W: 95/2 (11 runs required from 42 balls, RR: 7.30, RRR: 1.57)
- Ellyse Perry25 (25b)
- Meg Lanning42 (26b)
- Anya Shrubsole4-0-29-1
- Danielle Hazell3-0-28-0
Stuart: "I think Nadim Mukadam is trying to say that Virat Kohli is nearly as good as Meg Lanning?"
