Australia wins seventh women's Cricket World Cup, as Alyssa Healy's record-breaking 170 outdoes Nat Sciver's century

Australia has won its seventh women's ODI World Cup, trouncing England by 71 runs in the final on the back of a record-breaking innings by Alyssa Healy.

Healy notched the highest score in a women's or men's World Cup final, hammering 170 off 138 balls to help Australia reach 5-356 after being sent in to bat by England.

Backing up 129 in the semi-final against West Indies, Healy passed 500 runs for the tournament as she led Australia to the biggest total in a women's final.

The opener's gargantuan score eclipsed Adam Gilchrist's 149 in the 2007 men's World Cup final against Sri Lanka.

She was ably supported by Rachael Haynes (68) in a 160-run opening stand, and Beth Mooney (62) as they set England a seemingly impossible target of 357 runs to defend their ODI title.

Powerful England all-rounder Nat Sciver made a fist of the chase with a sensational 148 not out off 121 balls, but Australia took regular wickets to ensure she could not enjoy the sort of partnerships Healy had, eventually all out for 285.

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By Simon Smale

Audience comment by Robyn Lacey

So happy for them and Proud!!

Audience comment by AJ

What a game! What an incredible team! Undefeated!!!

By Simon Smale

Alyssa Healy is speaking.

«That was a special game of cricket,» she says.

«That was pretty special from our group.»

«It's something that we've been working towards for a very long time, everyone's been talking about it for a long period of time to to get over the line was pretty cool.

Healy says that the mood at the break was „very professional“.

»The job was half done. We knew we out a pretty good total on the board," she says.

«We knew their line up, they were peaking at