{"id":5219,"date":"2024-09-29T19:27:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/womens-t20-world-cup-results-england-beaten-by-australia-in-first-warm-up\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T19:27:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T19:27:16","slug":"womens-t20-world-cup-results-england-beaten-by-australia-in-first-warm-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/womens-t20-world-cup-results-england-beaten-by-australia-in-first-warm-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s T20 World Cup results: England beaten by Australia in first warm-up"},"content":{"rendered":"


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England were convincingly beaten by defending champions Australia in their first T20 World Cup warm-up in Dubai.<\/b><\/p>\n

Heather Knight’s side started well in pursuit of 163 to win, but slumped from 90-2 to 105-8 in the space of five overs.<\/p>\n

Alice Capsey top-scored with 40 from 34 balls but was the only England batter to pass 20 as they were bowled out for 129 in 19.4 overs, to lose by 33 runs.<\/p>\n

The World Cup starts on Thursday with Bangladesh taking on tournament debutants Scotland, while England’s first game is against Bangladesh on Saturday, 5 October.<\/p>\n

Australia’s 162-6 was set up by opener Beth Mooney’s 50 from 30 balls while powerful all-rounders Tahlia McGrath and Ash Gardner added cameos of 31 and 21 respectively.<\/p>\n

England’s only frontline seamer Lauren Bell was the pick of the bowlers with 2-29, with a wicket apiece for Nat Sciver-Brunt and spinners Sophie Ecclestone, Sarah Glenn and Charlie Dean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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England were convincingly beaten by defending champions Australia in their first T20 World Cup warm-up in Dubai. Heather Knight’s side started well in pursuit of 163 to win, but slumped from 90-2 to 105-8 in the space of five overs. Alice Capsey top-scored with 40 from 34 balls but was the only England batter to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5221,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions\/5221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}