ICC Women's World Cup: Australia and India remain unbeaten
Wednesday 5 July 2017 21:13, UK
Reigning champions Australia and India both made it four wins from four in the ICC Women's World Cup on Wednesday.
Australia thrashed Pakistan by 159 runs in Leicester with Ellyse Perry, Elyse Villani and Alyssa Healy all made fifties.
Those contributions helped the team, missing injured captain Meg Lanning, recover from 60-3, and set Pakistan a target of 291.
Pakistan, yet to win at this tournament, managed just 131 in reply.
"Ellyse Perry and Rachael Haynes built a crucial partnership after a shaky start so that gave the rest of us a lot of confidence to contribute and we were very happy with our total," said Villani.
It was a much closer contest at Derby where India defeated Sri Lanka by 16 runs.
India captain Mithali Raj (53) and Deepti Sharma (78) shared a decisive 118-run third-wicket partnership in a total of 232-8.
Jhulan Goswami then struck early in Sri Lanka's reply and not even a well-made fifty from Dilani Manodara was enough to prevent the islanders suffering a fourth straight defeat.
"I've always enjoyed batting and stepping up when it's required," said Raj after her 48th ODI half-century.
