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In cricket, the Women's T20 World Cup concludes with Australia defeating England in the final. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. In cricket, the
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  Women's T twenty World Cup concludes with Australia defeating England
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  in the final. The twenty twenty six ICC Women's T
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  twenty World Cup Final was a women's twenty twenty international
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  cricket match played at Lord's in London, England, on the
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  fifth of July twenty twenty six, to determine the winner
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  of the twenty twenty six ICC Women's T twenty World Cup.
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  It was played between Australia and England. Australia won the
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  toss and elected to field first. England managed to score
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  one hundred and fifty quarters in their innings. In the
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  second innings, Australia chased down the target in seventeen point
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  one overs to win their record seventh title. The match
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  was attended by twenty eight thousand spectators and viewed by
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  six hundred and seventy eight thousand viewers across the Sky Network.
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  The Australian women's national cricket team, formerly known as the
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  Southern Stars, represent Australia in international cricket. Currently captained by
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  Sophie Molineau and co by Shelley Nichkee. They are the
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  top team in all world rankings assigned by the International
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  Cricket Council. Australia played their first Test match in nineteen
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  thirty four thirty five against England. The two teams now
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  compete biennially for the Women's Ashes. A rich history with
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  New Zealand stretches back almost as far, while strong rivalries
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  have also developed more recently, with India and the West
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  Indies manifesting predominantly via limited overs cricket. In the fifty
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  over format of the game, Australia have won more World
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  Cups than all other teams combined, capturing the nineteen seventy eight,
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  nineteen eighty two, nineteen eighty eight, nineteen ninety seven, two
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  thousand five, twenty thirteen and twenty twenty two titles. They
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  have achieved similarly emphatic success in twenty twenty cricket by
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  winning the ICC Women's T twenty World Cup in twenty ten,
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  twenty twelve, twenty fourteen, twenty eighteen, twenty twenty, twenty twenty
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  three and twenty twenty six. In two thousand three, Women's
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  Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricket Board merged to form
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  a single governing body known as Cricket Australia, which remains
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  to this day. CAA has expressed a major goal of
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  the organization is for cricket to be Australia's leading sport
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  for women and girls, citing the performance and exposure of
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  the national team, which is heavily dependent on its increasingly
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  professional domestic structures, namely the Women's National Cricket League and
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  the Women's Big Bash League, as a key factor to
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  achieving such an aspiration. A survey conducted by True North
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  Research in April twenty twenty showed the national women's cricket
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  team have the strongest emotional connection with Australian sports fans.
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  The twenty twenty six ICC Women's T twenty World Cup
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  was the tenth edition of the ICC Women's T twenty
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  World Cup and was hosted by the England and Wales
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  Cricket Board from the twelfth of June to the fifth
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  of July twenty twenty six. England had previously hosted the
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  inaugural competition in two thousand nine. A total of twelve
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  teams competed in thirty three matches across seven venues in England.
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  The number of participants was increased from ten teams to twelve,
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  which included a host team, top five teams from the
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  previous edition, the two highest ranked teams in the ICC
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  Women's T two zero I team rankings not already qualified,
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  and four other teams determined through a series of qualifiers.
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  Netherlands qualified for the Women's T twenty World Cup for
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  the first time. New Zealand were the defending champions and
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  were eliminated in the group stage. Australia defeated England by
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  seven wickets in the final to win their record seventh title.
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  Teams that finished higher from the continents of Africa, Asia,
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  Europe and Oceania, South Africa, India, Great Britain and Australia
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  respectively qualified for cricket at the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics.
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  The England women's cricket team represents England and Wales in
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  international women's cricket. Since nineteen ninety eight, they have been
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  governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board, having been
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  previously governed by the Women's Cricket Association. England is a
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  full member of the International Cricket Council, with Test One
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  Day International and twenty twenty international status. They played in
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  the first ever women's Test match in nineteen thirty four
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  against Australia, which they won by nine wickets. The two
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  teams now compete regularly for the Women's Ashes. They played
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  in the first Women's Cricket World Cup in nineteen seventy three,
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  winning the tournament on home soil, and have gone on
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  to win the World Cup three more times, in nineteen
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  ninety three, two thousand and nine and twenty seventeen. After
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  their twenty seventeen triumph, they were awarded the BBC Sports
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  Team of the Year award. They played in the first
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  ever twenty twenty International in two thousand and five against
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  New Zealand and won the inaugural ICC Women's World Twenty
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  twenty in two thousand nine, but despite being in the
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  final on several occasions since, they have not repeated that triumph.
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  Bethany Luise Mooney is an Australian professional cricketer who plays
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  for the national cricket team as a batter in all
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  three formats of the game. At the domestic level, she
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  plays as a wicket keeper batter for Western Australia Earth
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  Scorches in WBBL and for Gujarat Giants in WPL. In
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  March twenty twenty, at the conclusion of the ICC Women's
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  T twenty World Cup twenty twenty, she became the world's
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  number one batter in women's twenty twenty international cricket. That's
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  it for now. See the episode notes for Wikipedia sources
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  and licensing. Thank you.