Summary

  • Group A, Dubai

  • Australia win by nine wickets after chasing down 83 with nine overs to spare

  • Captain Healy and fast bowler Vlaeminck sustain injuries

  • Pakistan bowled out for 82 off 19.5 overs - Gardner 4-21, including three in one over

  • Australia all but through to semis; Pakistan's hopes all but over

  • Scroll back through live text to watch highlights

Live Reporting

by Joe Rindl & Tom Mallows

  1. Aus 67-1

    A few balls later Alyssa Healy chips over cover for four more. The Australian opener moves past 1,000 runs in ICC World Cups.

    Alyssa Healy of Australia batsGetty Images

  2. Aus 61-1

    Target 83

    Alyssa Healy moves to 31 off 18, slog-sweeping four more.

  3. Aus 56-1

    Target 83

    Australia need fewer than 30 runs now. They've been super efficient. Pakistan have been sloppy.

  4. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    We said at the start of this innings that Pakistan cannot afford mistakes and unfortunately that is as simple as it comes. Alyssa Healy gets a life.

  5. dropped catch

    Alyssa Healy dropped on 25

    Aus 52-1

    No excuses for this one! Alyssa Healy chips one straight to Nashra Sandhu at long-off. She doesn't have to move and the trajectory is a lofty slower one, but Sandhu somehow spills it.

  6. Here's Pakistan's only wicket so far:

  7. Aus 51-1

    Well that's something to cheer for Pakistan as Nashra Sandhu comes into the attack and gets through her set without conceding a boundary.

    A few singles take Australia beyond 50.

  8. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Sometimes these rogue bowling actions seem to be the most effective.

    We have seen Brooke Halliday of New Zealand before and this is not too dissimilar from Omaima Sohail.

    There are legs and arms everywhere!

  9. Aus 46-1

    Pakistan make a change in attack again and give the ball to Omaiama Sohail who has a unique, rather staccato bowling action. Ellyse Perry blocks her first delivery to figure her out before punching a pull shot into a gap for four more.

    Australia are bossing it at the end of the powerplay. More than halfway there.

  10. Beth Mooney set a platform for Australia before chipping one straight to a fielder:

  11. Alyssa Healy got Australia's boundary count going at the very end of the second over:

  12. Here's a replay of Pakistan's final wicket:

  13. Aus 37-1

    Out comes Ellyse Perry for Australia. She finds her touch with four blocks and then loops a single down the ground.

  14. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Beth Mooney trying to continue where she left off in the last over.

    She was so strong on the off-side, but Pakistan have put someone on the off-side.

    Mooney tries to take on mid-on, but she's not go the elevation.

  15. wicket

    WICKET

    Beth Mooney c Aliya Riaz b Sadia Iqbal 15 (Aus 36-1)

    That's the breakthrough! Beth Mooney tries to keep the pace up but ends up hammering one straight to a fielder.

    Wicket number four in this World Cup for Sadia Iqbal.

  16. Australia way ahead

    The worm doesn't look good for Pakistan...

    A worm graph showing Australia are well ahead of the required run rateCricViz

  17. Aus 35-0

    Sadaf Shamas can't find her line and sends over a wide. I imagine she's just trying to hide the ball from Alyssa Healy.

    The Australia opener, and her team to be fair, are cruising.

  18. Kirstie Gordon
    England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    I am questioning what field Sadaf Shamas has got here. It's either a poor field or poor execution.

    Short again and a player of Alyssa Healy's quality is able to pick a gap.

  19. Aus 32-0

    Sadaf Shamas is chucked the ball but she also starts with a short one which Alyssa Healy sweeps to the ropes.

    Two balls later and she pulls with maximum power for another four.

  20. So how did we get here? Well, after a brilliant start with the ball, Ashleigh Gardner cleaned up for Australia in the penultimate over, taking three wickets for three runs...