Summary

  • ICC Women's World Cup, Colombo - Pakistan win toss & bowl

  • Pakistan crumble to 114, chasing 222, to lose by 107 runs

  • Pakistan 114 (36.3 overs): Amin 35 (52); Garth 3-14

  • Australia collapse from 30-0 to 76-7 and then 115-8 - but Mooney and King put on brilliant stand of 106

  • Australia 221-9 (50 overs): Mooney 109 (114), King 51* (49); Nashra 3-37

  • Pakistan have lost all three matches and remain bottom

  • Australia move top, one point clear of England and India

Watch the best shots from Mooney's century against Pakistan

Live Reporting

by Sam Drury & Matthew Henry

  1. Umpire review

    Aus 115-7

    Have Pakistan stolen a wicket?

    Kim Garth might have been stumped off a wide after brilliant work by Sidra Nawaz...

  2. Fran Wilson
    Ex-England batter on Test Match Special

    A lovely shot from Mooney. This is a good partnership buidling and we are seeing Australia lean more into it.

    Mooney has been playing really well. It looks like she has been playing on a different pitch to her team-mates,

  3. Aus 114-7

    Mooney 57, Garth 11

    Gorgeous cover drive from Beth Mooney. All along the deck and the ball races to the boundary.

    Going back to seam has not worked for Pakistan with neither Fatima Sana or Diana Baig offering much of a threat and the Australia batters both looking far more comfortable than against the spinners.

    An expensive over from Baig so far...

  4. 50 runs

    50 for Beth Mooney

    Aus 105-7

    Beth Mooney reaches her half-century from 63 balls.

    A crucial knock and once that could prove match-winning for Australia.

    She's kept her cool as wickets fell around her and now has to chance to push on and complete this rescue mission.

    Watch the best shots from Mooney's half-century against Pakistan

  5. Fran Wilson
    Ex-England batter on Test Match Special

    I feel like Pakistan have to be aggressive and have to stop the twos.

  6. Aus 104-7

    Good running from Australia after drinks, they're looking to put the Pakistan fielders under pressure and it seems to be working.

    What should just be a single out to deep mid-wicket turns into a couple as Beth Mooney charges back for the second.

    Only four from the over but signs Australia are beginning to up the ante.

  7. Fran Wilson
    Ex-England batter on Test Match Special

    Pakistan know that every run is important because they know how good Australia are with the ball. If they can get around 150, they can win the game.

  8. Drinks are being taken and Australia have managed to slow Pakistan's momentum in the past few overs.

    But a quick wicket after the restart - especially if it's that of Beth Mooney - and the underdogs will believe again.

  9. Aus 100-7

    Excellent diving stop on the boundary by Natalia Pervaiz as Diana Baig, back into the attack, slides one down leg via the pad of Kim Garth.

    Two runs saved but they do go down as runs rather than leg byes despite UltraEdge confirming there was no bat involved.

    Garth pushes at single out to deep point to bring up the 100 for Australia. They are slowly but surely getting themselves up towards a score they'd back themselves to defend.

  10. Alice Davidson-Richards
    England cricket all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    That is a big moment for Kim Garth and this is a good opportunity for her to bat.

  11. Aus 97-7

    Mooney 46, Garth 7

    Three singles from the over as Australia continue to tick over slowly. That'll do for them at this stage.

    Pakistan's batting is not their strong suit so if Australia can even get themselves up to 130 or so, they'll feel like they're right in this.

  12. Alice Davidson-Richards
    England cricket all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    Pakistan have had great control today and it has been wonderful to watch.

    I mean this with the biggest compliment but Fatima has been a boring bowler because she has just been bowling stump to stump.

  13. Rameen Shamin is coming back on for Pakistan. The off-spinner has taken a couple of wickets already today, including the most recent to fall, that of Georgia Wareham...

    'Australia are in absolute disarray' - Sutherland is bowled by Sandhu

    Gardner is caught by Sana off the bowling Shamim

    McGrath is caught by Baig off the bowling of Sandhu

    'Australia are all over the place!' - Wareham is caught & bowled by Shamim

  14. What a first 30 overs it's been for Pakistan with Australian wickets falling at regular intervals...

    'She looks furious with herself' - Healy is caught by Baig off the bowling of Iqbal

    Two wickets in four balls - Litchfield is caught & bowled by Sana

    Perry is stumped by Nawaz off the bowling of Sandhu

  15. Aus 94-7

    Fatima Sana continues and it's a tight over, albeit Kim Garth looks more comfortable against the seamer than she has against Pakistan's spinners.

    Just one from it.

  16. Aus 93-7

    Kim Garth is frustrated with herself after flirting with a ball just outside off, turning away from the bat from Sadia Iqbal.

    She got away with it, though, and a wide from Sadia next ball adds one to Australia's total. They're all important runs at this stage.

    A leading edge into the covers brings one more - although Pakistan won't mind it, it keeps Kim Garth on strike for the beginning of the next over.

  17. Alice Davidson-Richards
    England cricket all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    I reckon Garth would've been out by a foot if Sana had taken that cleanly.

  18. Aus 91-7

    Oof, that was a risky second run after Beth Mooney clipped the ball through the leg side.

    Kim Garth was slow off the mark and the throw goes to Fatima Sana at the non-striker's end.

    She gathers but then misses the stumps as she turns and tries to break the stumps, getting there a moment later. Had the Pakistan skipper got there first time, I think Garth was gone.

    Let off for Australia.

  19. Aus 89-7

    Just a single from the next five balls of Nashra's over.

    Australia are digging in, with 23 overs to go and Beth Mooney still there, they don't have to rush.

    Plenty of time for Mooney to try and get the defending champions to a winning total.

    Pakistan will have other ideas, though, and captain Fatima Sana is coming back to change things up with some seam bowling.

  20. Aus 88-7

    Valuable runs for Australia as Beth Mooney cashes in on a long hop from Nashra Sandhu, rocking back and pulling through square leg for four.