Summary

  • Australia win by 85 runs - their fifth T20 World Cup title

  • India bowled out for 99 - Schutt takes 4-18

  • Opener Healy hammers 75 off 39 balls for Australia, including three successive sixes

  • Mooney adds unbeaten 78 off 54 balls as Aussies post 184-4

  • Attendance of 86,174 at MCG on International Women's Day

  • Katy Perry performs before and after final

  1. Postpublished at 07:32 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    Alex Blackwell
    Former Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    I can't quite believe what I'm saying - the crowd that has turned up, the Katy Perry concert and the start Australia have got off to. This is a massive sporting event.

  2. Aus 57-0published at 7.2 overs

    The economical Gayakwad, with 0-7 from two overs, is kept on for a third. The crowd are having a chance to get their breath back after that Katy Perry set, and Healy's opening blitz - the Aussie keeper does take the aerial route, but it sails safely over mid-off for two.

  3. Aus 53-0published at 7 overs

    Healy 32 (22 balls), Mooney 22 (20)

    Australia are wary of Poonam's leg-spin, as well they might be. Five carefully-taken singles from her first over.

  4. Aus 50-0published at 6.1 overs

    Mooney rocks onto the back foot and steers Poonam's first ball for a single. That's the fifty stand.

  5. Postpublished at 07:26 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    Here's how Beth Mooney got her innings going.

  6. Postpublished at 07:26 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    Kristen Beams
    Ex-Australia leg-spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It's a good decision to get Poonam Yadav into the bowling attack now; to try and get a couple of wickets and slow down Australia a little bit.

  7. Postpublished at 07:26 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    Time for Poonam Yadav - one of the best, shortest, slowest, loopiest, leg-spinners in the business.

  8. Postpublished at 07:25 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    Amy Lofthouse
    BBC Sport at the MCG

    India haven't played since last Saturday - and it shows. Two dropped catches in the first five overs and some absolutely brutal thumping from Alyssa Healy has swung things firmly in Australia's favour.

  9. Aus 49-0published at 6 overs

    Healy moves to 30 off 20 balls with a single, and India escape without further damage in the powerplay as Mooney rounds it off with a single. Just two from Gayakwad's over.

  10. Postpublished at 07:23 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    Kristen Beams
    Ex-Australia leg-spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Alyssa Healy is going to want to keep using her feet and targeting the off side.

  11. Aus 47-0published at 5.3 overs

    Healy has a grin on her face as Gayakwad spins one past her outside edge. The left-arm spinner starts the over well with three dot balls.

  12. Postpublished at 07:22 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    Kristen Beams
    Ex-Australia leg-spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    This wicket is playing so well - other pitches have been low and slow, but the bounce is there today and the ball is coming onto the bat nicely.

  13. Aus 47-0published at 5 overs

    Healy 29, Mooney 18

    Tighter from Pandey, but Mooney delicately jabs a four past the fielder at short third man - while she punishes any width outside off stump with another four through the covers.

    Plenty of Australian children dancing in the crowd, as well they might, while Pandey holds her head.

  14. Postpublished at 07:20 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    Healy has also passed 2,000 career T20 international runs today.

  15. Aus 39-0published at 4.3 overs

    Shikha Pandey has changed ends, but the fielders are having to shuffle around a lot with the left-hand/right-hand combo in action.

  16. Postpublished at 07:19 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    The torrent of runs has been slowed ever so slightly in the last couple of overs.

  17. Postpublished at 07:19 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    And the first of those dropped catches...

  18. Postpublished at 07:18 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    Here's the opening number from the Alyssa Healy Show...

  19. Aus 37-0published at 4 overs

    The reprieved Mooney adds a single. Decent over from Gayakwad, only five runs from it, but there could have been one in the "W" column.

  20. Postpublished at 07:17 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2020

    Kristen Beams
    Ex-Australia leg-spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    How costly are these half chances - you tend to only get three or four in an entire game.