A consummate 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 dynamic duo enjoyed sensational days at Indore’s Holkar Stadium on Wednesday, Gardner adding her second century of the tournament (104no) to her earlier two wickets, while player-of-the-match Sutherland finished 98no after taking three scalps.

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

“I’m very happy. The spinners did a fantastic

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