Australia’s Ashleigh Gardner (left) and Ellyse Perry have a good time after wining the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup 2026 ultimate towards England at Lord’s Cricket Floor in London, Britain, July 5, 2026. — ReutersAustralia beat England by seven wickets in ultimate.Beth Mooney scores 64 off 49 balls for Australia.Phoebe Litchfield contributes 48 runs to chase.
Australia thrashed England by seven wickets to win a record-extending seventh girls’s T20 World Cup title in a sold-out ultimate at Lord’s on Sunday.
Beth Mooney (64) and Phoebe Litchfield (48) did the harm in a second-wicket partnership of precisely 100 runs as Australia reached a goal of 151 with 17 balls to spare.
Victory meant Australia had now gained all seven of their world finals, throughout each one-day worldwide and T20 cricket, towards arch-rivals England.
Tight Australia bowling backed up by sometimes spectacular fielding restricted England to 150-4, with the hosts indebted to skipper Nat-Sciver Brunt (58 not out) and Freya Kemp (44 not out) for an unbroken stand of 80 that revived the innings from 70-4.
The brand new-ball duo of Kim Garth (1-20 in 4 overs) and Lucy Hamilton (1-19 in three) had been the decide of the assault in what was Australia’s first international ultimate at Lord’s.
England, bidding for a primary main title since successful the 2017 50-over World Cup ultimate at Lord’s and with the reminiscence of a 16-0 rout by Australia within the final multi-format Ashes nonetheless contemporary within the reminiscence, appeared a minimum of 20 runs shy of difficult whole.
Australia, in spite of everything, had chased down 171 to knock India out in a group-stage recreation at Lord’s final weekend.
Georgia Voll charged down the pitch to loft the primary ball of the chase, from off-spinner Charlie Dean, for 4 at a sun-drenched Lord’s earlier than taking part in on to Lauren Bell to depart Australia 17-1.
However the runs saved coming, with Mooney — who had already had a positive recreation behind the stumps — steering Bell by backward level for considered one of seven fours in her 38-ball fifty.
Litchfield swept Dean for 4 and lofted the spinner for six over extra-cover.
Sciver-Brunt had promised her aspect would go “toe-to-toe” towards Australia, with either side unbeaten on the event earlier than the ultimate.
However the gulf in school was clear, with Australia having one hand on the trophy at 68-1 come the top of the six-over powerplay.
And by the point Dean bowled Litchfield, to finish a stand of 100 in 67 balls, Australia had been 117-2.
Mooney was ultimately lbw on evaluate to left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone, with Australia in sight of victory at 140-3.
And England’s day was summed up when Australia’s successful runs through 5 wides from Ecclestone, whose legside supply sped to the boundary.
Earlier, Australia quickly had a breakthrough after captain Sophie Molineux gained the toss, with Amy Jones edging Hamilton to gully for her fifth single-figure rating in six innings.
It was the economical left-arm fast’s first wicket of the event.
However new batter Sciver-Brunt, who had taken son Theo onto the outfield along with her for the pre-match anthem, stylishly cover-drove Hamilton for a first-ball 4.
Veteran opener Danni Wyatt-Hodge fell for simply eight when she gloved Annabel Sutherland down the legside and was properly caught on the second try by a diving Mooney.
Alice Capsey briefly turned the tide with 23 earlier than she was bowled by Molineux after lacking a reverse sweep.
Former captain Heather Knight made 58 and shared a partnership of 133 with Sciver-Brunt in a 40-run semi-final thrashing of South Africa.
However on Sunday, England’s victorious 2017 captain, was plumb lbw for simply two to Garth’s leg-cutter to depart her aspect 70-4.
Massive-hitting left-hander Kemp struck a number of boundaries, together with smashing Molineux for six within the final over of the innings.
However England’s whole was quickly made to look insufficient as they surrendered their report of getting gained each main international event that they had hosted — a run relationship again to the inaugural 1973 Girls’s ODI World Cup.
