2020 Australia women's Tri-Nation Series

2020 Australia women's Tri-Nation Series
Date	31 January–12 February 2020
Location	Australia
Result	Australia won the series
Player of the series	Beth Mooney
Teams  Australia  England  India Captains Meg Lanning[n 1] Heather Knight Harmanpreet Kaur Most runs Beth Mooney (208) Heather Knight (176) Smriti Mandhana (216) Most wickets Tayla Vlaeminck (7) Jess Jonassen (7) Ellyse Perry (7) Sarah Glenn (5) Sophie Ecclestone (5) Nat Sciver (5) Katherine Brunt (5) Rajeshwari Gayakwad (10)

The 2020 Australia women's Tri-Nation Series was a cricket tournament that took place in Australia in January and February 2020.[1][2] It was a tri-nation series between Australia women, England women and the India women cricket teams, with the matches played as Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) fixtures.[3][4] All three teams used the series as their final warm-up ahead of the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.[5]

Ahead of the fifth match of the series, the Australian team were presented with the ICC Women's Championship trophy, after winning the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship tournament.[6] In the sixth match, Australia beat England by 16 runs, to advance to the final along with India.[7] In the final, Australia beat India by 11 runs to win the series,[8] with Jess Jonassen taking her first five-wicket haul in a WT20I match.[9]

Squads

Australia[10]	England[11]	India[12]
Meg Lanning (c) Rachael Haynes (vc) Erin Burns Nicola Carey Ashleigh Gardner Alyssa Healy (wk) Jess Jonassen Delissa Kimmince Sophie Molineux Beth Mooney Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Annabel Sutherland Tayla Vlaeminck Georgia Wareham	Heather Knight (c) Tammy Beaumont Katherine Brunt Kate Cross Freya Davies Sophie Ecclestone Georgia Elwiss Sarah Glenn Amy Jones (wk) Nat Sciver Anya Shrubsole Lauren Winfield Fran Wilson Danni Wyatt Mady Villiers	Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Smriti Mandhana (vc) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Harleen Deol Rajeshwari Gayakwad Richa Ghosh Veda Krishnamurthy Shikha Pandey Nuzhat Parween Arundhati Reddy Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Pooja Vastrakar Shafali Verma Poonam Yadav Radha Yadav

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Australia (H)	4	2	2	0	4	0.238
2	India	4	2	2	0	4	−0.071
3	England	4	2	2	0	4	−0.169

Source: ESPNcricinfo[13]
(H) Host

WT20I series

1st WT20I

31 January 2020 14:10 Scorecard

England  147/7 (20 overs)	v	India 150/5 (19.3 overs)
Heather Knight 67 (44) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/19 (4 overs)		Harmanpreet Kaur 42* (34) Katherine Brunt 2/33 (3.3 overs)

India Women won by 5 wickets Manuka Oval, Canberra Umpires: Donovan Koch (Aus) and Claire Polosak (Aus) Player of the match: Heather Knight (Eng)

• India Women won the toss and elected to field.

2nd WT20I

1 February 2020 14:00 Scorecard

England  156/4 (20 overs)	v	Australia 156/8 (20 overs)
Heather Knight 78 (45) Ellyse Perry 1/9 (4 overs)		Beth Mooney 65 (45) Nat Sciver 3/23 (4 overs)

Match tied (England won the Super Over) Manuka Oval, Canberra Umpires: Donovan Koch (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus) Player of the match: Heather Knight (Eng)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Annabel Sutherland (Aus) made her WT20I debut.

3rd WT20I

2 February 2020 14:00 Scorecard

India  103/9 (20 overs)	v	Australia 104/6 (18.5 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 35 (23) Ellyse Perry 4/13 (4 overs)		Ellyse Perry 49 (47) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/18 (4 overs)

Australia Women won by 4 wickets Manuka Oval, Canberra Umpires: Claire Polosak (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus) Player of the match: Ellyse Perry (Aus)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.

4th WT20I

7 February 2020 14:10 Scorecard

India  123/6 (20 overs)	v	England 124/6 (18.5 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 45 (40) Anya Shrubsole 3/31 (4 overs)		Nat Sciver 50 (38) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 3/23 (4 overs)

England Women won by 4 wickets Junction Oval, Melbourne Umpires: Claire Polosak (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus) Player of the match: Anya Shrubsole (Eng)

• England Women won the toss and elected to field.

5th WT20I

8 February 2020 12:10 Scorecard

Australia  173/5 (20 overs)	v	India 177/3 (19.4 overs)
Ashleigh Gardner 93 (57) Deepti Sharma 2/27 (4 overs)		Smriti Mandhana 55 (48) Megan Schutt 1/26 (4 overs)

India Women won by 7 wickets Junction Oval, Melbourne Umpires: Donovan Koch (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus) Player of the match: Ashleigh Gardner (Aus)

• India Women won the toss and elected to field.
• This was India Women's highest successful run chase in WT20Is.[14]

6th WT20I

9 February 2020 11:40 Scorecard

Australia  132/7 (20 overs)	v	England 116/7 (20 overs)
Beth Mooney 50 (40) Sarah Glenn 2/18 (4 overs)		Katherine Brunt 23* (19) Sophie Molineux 3/19 (4 overs)

Australia Women won by 16 runs Junction Oval, Melbourne Umpires: Donovan Koch (Aus) and Claire Polosak (Aus) Player of the match: Sophie Molineux (Aus)

• England Women won the toss and elected to field.

Final

12 February 2020 13:40 Scorecard

Australia  155/6 (20 overs)	v	India 144 (20 overs)
Beth Mooney 71* (54) Deepti Sharma 2/30 (4 overs)		Smriti Mandhana 66 (37) Jess Jonassen 5/12 (4 overs)

Australia Women won by 11 runs Junction Oval, Melbourne Umpires: Donovan Koch (Aus) and Tony Wilds (Aus) Player of the match: Jess Jonassen (Aus)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Richa Ghosh (Ind) made her WT20I debut.
• Jess Jonassen (Aus) took her first five-wicket haul in WT20Is.[15]

Notes

1. Rachael Haynes captained Australia in the third WT20I.

References

1. "Big Bash to take over Australia Day from national team". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
2. "Australia to host Sri Lanka, Pakistan and New Zealand in momentous home summer". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
3. "CA announce 2019-20 summer schedule". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
4. "Cricket Australia's 2019-20 cricket schedule unveiled". Fox Sports. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
5. "Australia's T20 World Cup squad set for important Sydney scouting mission". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
6. "Australia presented with ICC Women's Championship trophy". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
7. "Sophie Molineux, Beth Mooney take Australia into tri-series final". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
8. "Beth Mooney 71*, Jess Jonassen 5-12 hand Australia tri-series title". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
9. "Aussies turn it on to clinch T20 tri-series". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
10. "Sophie Molineux and Annabel Sutherland named in Australia's T20 World Cup squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
11. "England Women announce T20 World Cup squad and summer fixtures". England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
12. "India Squad for Women's T20 World Cup 2020 Announced". Female Cricket. 12 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
13. "Australia Tri-Nation Women's T20 Series Table – 2020". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
14. "Shafali Verma's stunning 49 off 28 outshines Ashleigh Gardner's 93". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
15. "Jonassen five-for propels Australia to tri-series final victory". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 February 2020.

External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo