Australia won the World Cup at Lord’s on Sunday, with Beth Mooney’s 64 from 49 balls setting the pace in the final. The England score never caught up with the pressure Australia applied from the first innings. The unbeaten run closed a tournament that had already been framed by doubts about transition, not trophies.
Beth Mooney’s 64
Mooney said she was "just woke up in the morning pretty grateful we made it this far" before making the innings that defined the final. She finished with player of the match and player of the tournament, a double that matches how central her batting was to Australia’s title push. The numbers were plain: 64 runs, 49 balls, and the final settled by the batter who held the innings together.
Sophie Molineux’s selection
Sophie Molineux was a left-field pick as captain, and that choice sat at the center of the pre-tournament conversation. Georgia Voll opened aggressively, Phoebe Litchfield followed with fearless batting, and Lucy Hamilton provided left-arm pace while fielding restrictions were in place. Kim Garth was the most relentless seamer in the competition, Georgia Wareham posted the top tournament strike rate at 182, and Annabel Sutherland had already moved beyond the emerging tag. Nicola Carey came back from a hiatus, while Ellyse Perry and Ash Gardner won matches when they were needed.
Australia’s winning habit
The title extended a record that still separates Australia from everyone else in women’s global cricket. They have now won seven T20 World Cups out of 10 and seven one-day World Cups out of 13. Last November they lost their one-day title in India, and that gap only sharpened the significance of Sunday’s finish because the team had also gone out in semi-finals in 2024 and 2025 before resetting around a younger group.
What remains is the selection logic behind Molineux’s elevation and the internal judgment that backed it. Team members namechecked her in interviews on the day, and Cricket Australia even staged a video as a mock address to the nation from the Lord’s Long Room, but the clearest answer came from the result itself: Australia stayed unbeaten and left Lord’s with the trophy.
