Defending champion Australia has lost its last group match of the women's World Twenty20, going down by seven wickets to England in Galle.
The Southern Stars won the toss and elected to bat first, posting 5 for 144 from 20 overs with opener Meg Lanning scoring 39 runs from 31 balls and veteran Lisa Sthalekar contributing 38 off 28.
Despite an early breakthrough by Julie Hunter, England knocked off the runs with 11 balls to spare.
Sarah Taylor, the number one ranked women's T20 batter, played a great innings hitting 65 off 53 balls to help England's successful chase.
Southern Stars captain Jodie Fields, who took a great one-handed catch, was disappointed with the loss.
"It felt like we were right in the match right up until the last couple of overs. Our batting innings went the way we wanted it to do, we aimed for 140 and we got that target," she said.
"We have a really strong batting order and we can bat from one to 11 and I was really happy with the batting performance today.
"I guess we need to come out of this loss now and train hard over the next two days and look towards the next match."
Australia will play the West Indies in the semi-finals on Friday.
"The West Indies are a strong team and we were lucky enough to play them in a warm-up match which gave us an idea about how we can play against them," Fields added.
Tags: twenty20, cricket, sport, sri-lanka, australia First posted October 02, 2012 08:15:15
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