2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Final

Source: [11]

Australia		Round	India
Opponent	Result	Group stage	Opponent	Result
India	India Women won by 17 runs	Match 1	Australia	India Women won by 17 runs
Sri Lanka	Australia Women won by 5 wickets	Match 2	Bangladesh	India Women won by 18 runs
Bangladesh	Australia Women won by 86 runs	Match 3	New Zealand	India Women won by 3 runs
New Zealand	Australia Women won by 4 runs	Match 4	Sri Lanka	India Women won by 7 wickets
Group A 2nd Place Pos Team P W L T NR Pts NRR Qualification 2  Australia 4 3 1 0 0 6 +0.971 Advance to semi-finals		Final group standings	Group A 1st Place Pos Team P W L T NR Pts NRR Qualification 1  India 4 4 0 0 0 8 +0.979 Advance to semi-finals
Opponent	Result	Knockout stage	Opponent	Result
South Africa	Australia Women won by 5 runs (DLS method)	Semi-finals	England	Match abandoned, India Women advance to final

On 21 February, Indian women's team beat defending champions Australia by 17 runs in the first match of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup played at the Sydney ground. Batting first, Indian team scored 132 runs in the loss of four wickets in 20 overs. The team of Australia could score 115 runs in 19.5 overs. For the host team, Alyssa Healy scored an innings of 51 runs with the help of six fours and a six off 35 balls. India Leg-spinner Poonam Yadav took four wickets for 19 runs in four overs.[12]

On 24 February, Indian team winning campaign continues in the Women's T20 World Cup. Indian team defeated Bangladesh by 18 runs in their second match. With this win, they was reached the top in Group A. Bangladesh captain Salma Khatun won the toss & chose bowling for her team. Batting first, India scored 142 in the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing the target, Bangladesh were able to score 124 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Shafali Verma was adjudged Player of the Match. For India, Poonam Yadav took 3 wickets for 18 runs. Apart from her, Arundhati Reddy took 2 for 33, Shikha Pandey 2 for 14 and Rajeshwari Gayakwad took one wicket for 25 runs.[13]

On 27 February, Team India had reached the semi-finals of the World Cup after defeating New Zealand by 3 runs. With this, Team India reached the semi-finals of the World Cup for the fourth time. Earlier, India had reached to the semi-finals in 2009, 2010 and 2018. Chasing the target of 134 runs, the Kiwi team was able to score 130 runs in the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. For India opener Shafali Verma scored a blistering 46 runs, her outstanding performance of 16-year-old Shefali won the Player of the Match award for the second time in a row. Indian team scored 133 runs in 20 overs after losing the toss against New Zealand.[14]

On 6 March 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) named New Zealand's Kim Cotton and Pakistan's Ahsan Raza as the on-field umpires, with West Indian Gregory Brathwaite as the third umpire, Zimbabwe's Langton Rusere as the reserve umpire, and Chris Broad of England named as match referee.[15]

Both teams were unchanged from their previous matches in the tournament.[16]

The opening pairing of Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney put on a century partnership of 115 runs before Healy was dismissed for 75. Both opening batters were dropped early in the innings. Indian youngster Shafali Verma dropped Alyssa Healy in the very first over of Australia's innings. Deepti Sharma struck in the 17th over, taking the wickets of skipper Meg Lanning for 16 and Ashleigh Gardner for 2. Rachael Haynes could only manage four runs before being dismissed in the 18th over. Mooney and Nicola Carey remained not out, moving Australia's total to 184 for 4.[3] Mooney top-scored the innings with 78 runs, and with an overall World Cup total of 259 runs, she set the record for the most runs scored in a Women's T20 World Cup.[17]

Pursuing a tremendous total of 185 runs, India got off to a bad start and lost four wickets inside the powerplay overs.[18] India would never recuperate from the early blows and were bowled out for 99 runs in 19.1 overs.[3]