New Delhi. New Zealand women's cricket team has ended its long-running ICC tournament title drought. The Kiwi team has won the Women's T20 World Cup by defeating South Africa in the final played in Dubai. The New Zealand team was runner up here in 2009 and 2010. In the title match, this team defeated the South African team, which had booked the final ticket for the second consecutive time. The New Zealand team became rich after winning the title. He received an overall amount of Rs 21.40 crore for winning the World Cup, of which Rs 19.67 crore was given for winning the title.
A total of Rs 11.56 crore went into the account of the runner-up South African team, which lost in the final against New Zealand, which included Rs 9.83 crore for finishing second. The Indian team, which was out of the race for the semi-finals, had won two matches in this World Cup. For this he got Rs 3.74 crore. The Indian team, captained by Harmanpreet Kaur, had shocked its hopes of reaching the semi-finals by defeating New Zealand by a huge margin in the very first match of this World Cup.
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6 time champion Australia got Rs 7.66 crore
Six-time champion Australia, which lost in the semi-finals, was given Rs 7.66 crores, while the West Indies team, which lost in the last four, got Rs 7.40 crores. England, which stood at fifth position, got Rs 4 crore. Pakistan was given Rs 3.47 crore, Bangladesh got Rs 3.47 crore and Sri Lanka got Rs 2.08 crore.
Account of the final match
On the strength of Amelia Kerr's all-round game, New Zealand won this title for the first time by defeating South Africa by 32 runs in the final. 'Player of the Match' Kerr established New Zealand's dominance over the match by taking three wickets after scoring 43 runs with the bat. He laid the foundation of a big score by making a partnership of 57 runs in 44 balls for the fourth wicket with Brook Halliday (38). After scoring 158 runs for five wickets when invited to bat first, New Zealand did not let its dream of becoming champion come true by restricting last time runner-up South Africa to 126 runs for 9 wickets.
Tags: Icc T20 world cup, New Zealand, South africa, T20 World Cup, Women cricket
FIRST PUBLISHED : October 21, 2024, 06:01 IST
