2020 Australia women's Tri-Nation Series

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]

2020 Australia women's Tri-Nation Series
Date31 January–12 February 2020
LocationAustralia
Result Australia won the series
Player of the seriesAustralia 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)

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]

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)

Notes
  1. Rachael Haynes captained Australia in the third WT20I.

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