Watch: Winning moments of Australia’s T20 World Cup Final; Dance with Katty Perry

As the sun came out in Melbourne on Sunday, there was not-seen-before excitement in the air among sports fans. And why it shouldn’t be so? Arguably, one of the most remarkable days in women’s sports was in the offing. Cricket fanatics lined up and packed the Melbourne cricket ground to the rafters on the occasion of International women’s day.

Alyssa Healy’s ‘Fireworks’ after Katty Perry’s!

Whole occasion was built up with a performance of international superstar Katty Perry to start with. And there was also a world cup final to be played! Home captain Meg Lanning won the toss and elected to put the score on the board first in the championship game.

Alyssa Healy decided to put down the marker straight away and Indians were found out wanting in the field to let the game drift away from them. They dropped a couple of straight forward opportunities and looked nervous on the big occasion. Healy didn’t need second invitation and belted the bowling around for fun. Her power hitting put on an exhibition which is a rare thing in women’s cricket.

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India well and truly outplayed!

Beth Mooney played the second fiddle perfectly to Healy and helped Australia post a massive 184 in final. Both openers made impactful 75 & 78 respectively. In reply, India needed to play out of their skins to make a match of this.

Unfortunately again, their start was a disastrous one with teenage sensation and find of the world cup Shafali Verma dismissed for just 2 on the third ball of the innings. Australians were switched on and didn’t give an inch to India. Horror run of Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur continues as Megan Schutt took 4-18 to bundle India out for just 99. Australia won the game by 85 runs to register their 5th title.

All the feels ?

Relive the emotions of Australia's #T20WorldCup winning moment, as experienced from the team dugout ? pic.twitter.com/4yBTBX4tQP

— ICC (@ICC) March 8, 2020

WHAT A MOMENT ???#CmonAussie #T20WorldCup pic.twitter.com/3KPspBrIVM

— Australian Women's Cricket Team ? (@AusWomenCricket) March 8, 2020

After #TheBigDance…

… you dance some more ??

Loving the moves @MollyStrano ? #T20WorldCup pic.twitter.com/K7t8SrNQmJ

— T20 World Cup (@T20WorldCup) March 8, 2020

This is how Australian women's team celebrated their winpic.twitter.com/oax437bm8f

— Cricketopia (@CricketopiaCom) March 8, 2020

#FillTheMCG
Melbourne put on a glorious day and crowd didn’t disappoint either. The official attendance was over 86k and some of great names in women’s sports were also present at the occasion. This was the highest attendance for a women’s cricket match and 2nd overall in any sports.

Never seen anything like this for a women's sporting event. We're going to give this world record a good shake! #T20WorldCup #FillTheMCG pic.twitter.com/6PG8tdDSVW

— Alistair Hogg (@alistairjhogg) March 8, 2020

Today is #IWD2020. We'd like to start by saluting everyone at the #T20WorldCup.
The aim was to #FilltheMCG. 90,000 people, watching women's sport. It looks AMAZING. ? pic.twitter.com/69gWQMjIZN

— FIFA Women's World Cup (@FIFAWWC) March 8, 2020