Sonsofpunjab: Aus still in this game what a advert for Womens Cricket...gripping stuff

Beams does her job, a single to the cover sweeper.

So, who to bowl? It's going to be Poonam Yadav, who has one over left. Blackwell cracks the first ball to cover, there's a misfield but they turn down a single as Blackwell needs boundaries. Next ball, it reaches long-on on the bounce and they run one this time. 43 from 16 needed.

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Blackwell crunches a four through square leg, then gets an inside edged-single to keep the strike!

44 from 18 balls needed, for one of the most incredible finishes you've seen...

Phil Long
TMS statistician

Krishanmurthy hasn't bowled for 26 ODIs.

Now, is this an Elyse Villani moment, or a tactical masterstroke? Veda Krishnamurthy, who's not bowled in this entire World Cup (and in only in five of her previous 38 ODIs), comes on to bowl leg-spin in a cap... and the first ball is a horrible one down the leg side from which Blackwell smears a two. But they can only get a single off her second ball. Beams adds a two and a single to reach double figures for the first time in an ODI...

So, at what point do India start to fear they could lose this?

Jhulan Goswami, the old warrior, back at the City End. Can she take this final wicket? Blackwell's still fighting - blasting a four past the bowler. That's the fifty stand for the last wicket, you don't see many of those in ODIs. Blackwell pulls a full toss for four, any higher and it might have been a no-ball. A single to long-off from the fifth ball, just leaving Beams one to survive... which she does. 55 needed from 24 balls.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

Blackwell fancies it. She's a great character, a serious fighter. She has an inner grit.

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Gayakwad completes her spell, finishing with 1-62 from nine overs - Australia need an unlikely 64 from 30 balls.

Aus 217-9published at 36.4 overs

36.4 overs

Target 282 from 42 overs

There's no farming of the strike from Blackwell - she has confidence in Beams, who has belied her number 11 batting position with an assured display.

Blackwell then launches a monster of a straight six into the media centre, followed by another. Surely she doesn't genuinely believe she can win it from here?

This is how Australia lost their ninth wicket - Megan Schutt pouched by Jhulan Goswami in the deep.

Blackwell and Beams playing as if there was no pressure on. Which there isn't realistically - as Australia need 79 from 36 balls.

Charlotte Edwards
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

Blackwell is a fighter, a mongrel. She'll keep coming at India because she will think she can pull this off.

50 for Alex Blackwellpublished at 35.2 overs

35.2 overs

Aus 200-9

A swept four brings Alex Blackwell her fifty from 36 balls. In the context of the game, it will make little difference, but a gutsy innings nevertheless.

Charles Dagnall
BBC Test Match Special

Harmanpreet Kaur is hobbling but she's got a huge smile on her face. She's hit 170 and hasn't had to field.

Daggers and Charlotte on TMS are also winding Ebony Rainford-Brent up something rotten, suggesting the BCCI may not allow an injured Kaur to play for Ebony's Surrey Stars in the Super League...

Aus 195-9published at 35 overs

35 overs

Blackwell 48 from 35 balls.

Blackwell goes over the top... but it falls short of long-off and they can only run one. The field comes in for Beams, who knocks a single, while Blackwell hoists a first-bounce four over the bowler's head - and an even bigger six to the same region.

Meanwhile, India are gathering on the boundary, including the injured Harmanpreet Kaur, soon to be the recipient of the easiest player-of-the-match award decision in the history of cricket.

Charlotte Edwards
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

Deep down, England will be happy to playing India. Australia have always been the nemesis in finals.

Here's how it ended for the unlucky Jess Jonassen, run out at the bowler's end from a deflection.

Alex Blackwell, the last recognised batter standing, drills a four through the covers and nurdles a three to fine leg to bring Beams on strike. The number 11 shows a perfectly good defensive technique, eventually finding the gap with a cut backward of point so she's off the mark, at least.