Beth Mooney’s brilliant performance (Photo: Gareth Copley/Getty Images)
Australia won the Women’s T20 World Cup title for a record 7th time. This time they defeated England in the final, in which the character of the entire team was important but opener Beth Mooney played a decisive role in it. However, Beth Mooney maintained her brilliant game not only in the final but throughout the tournament, the effect of which was that ICC was forced to change its decision. The result of that changed decision of ICC was that a new record was registered in the name of Beth Mooney.
How did Beth Mooney play the decisive role?
In the final match, Australia won the toss and put England women’s team in to bat first. In the final being played at Lord’s, England, batting first, scored 150 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, England lost Australia’s first wicket for just 17 runs. But after that, what Beth Mooney did with Lichfield took away the victory from the hands of England.
There was a full 100-run partnership between Mooney and Lichfield for the second wicket. Lichfield was out after scoring 48 runs but Beth Mooney stood firm at one end. Beth Mooney, who came to open, played a brilliant half-century innings in the final. She scored 64 runs on 49 balls, which played an important role in Australia winning the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 title.
With 64 runs in the final, Mooney scored 238 runs in the tournament.
Beth Mooney not only played a tremendous inning of 64 runs in the final, on the basis of that she also completed 238 runs in the tournament in 7 innings of 7 matches at an average of more than 47. When Beth Mooney got the Player of the Match award for her final innings, the ICC changed its decision and also awarded her the Player of the Tournament award.
ICC changed its decision and a record was made
ICC had earlier shortlisted the names of Marijn Kapp, Ellyse Perry, Smriti Mandhana and Danny Wyatt-Hodge for the Player of the Tournament. But the impact of Beth Mooney’s performance became so dominant that ICC had to change its decision. In this way, Beth Mooney is now the only cricketer to win two Player of the Tournament awards in the Women’s T20 World Cup. She won the Player of the Tournament in the 2020 Women’s T20 World Cup before 2026.
Beth Mooney is the only female cricketer in this case.
She is also the only player to be named Player of the Match in the final of the Women’s T20 World Cup twice. Beth Mooney had become the player of the match in the 2023 T20 World Cup before 2026.
More runs than Virat in the final of T20 World Cup
Beth Mooney is the highest run scorer in the T20 World Cup finals (Men’s and Women’s). In this matter he is much ahead of Virat Kohli, Mooney has so far scored 230 runs in the finals of the T20 World Cup and he is number 1 in this matter. Marlon Samuels of West Indies is at second place with 163 runs while Virat Kohli is at third place with 153 runs.
