A glorious unbeaten century partnership between Annabel Sutherland and Ash Gardner has steered Australia to another World Cup triumph, the two masterful allrounders shattering England’s spirits once again in a six-wicket rout.

The pair both enjoyed sensational days at Indore’s Holkar Stadium on Wednesday, Gardner adding her second century of the tournament to two wickets when England batted, while player-of-the-match Sutherland finished 98no after earlier taking three wickets.

Their only disappointment on another day which demonstrated both the champions’ extraordinary strength-in-depth and resilience to rebound from a difficult predicament was that Sutherland and Gardner couldn’t quite contrive a finish in which they both got hundreds.

The other star of unbeaten Australia’s fifth victo

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