All our updates as Australia book a place in the World Cup semifinals but India are left to sweat on Group A standings.
That’s it for our live coverage of Australia against India.
The defending champions confirm their place in the semifinal. But for India, it’s over to New Zealand and Pakistan to battle it out to decide which of the three will join the Australians in the last four.
We’ll have full coverage of the final Group A game on Monday as qualification goes to the wire.
We hope you enjoyed our coverage from Sharjah. Do join us for New Zealand against Pakistan if you can.
For now, though – from me, Kevin Hand – it’s goodbye.
The Australia captain could be in line for a return for her side’s semifinal, having limped out of Friday’s win against Pakistan with a calf injury.
Cricket Australia has said Healy will be assessed ahead of their soon-to-be-confirmed last four match.
“We want to win every game we play and we knew India was going to be a really big challenge,” stand-in skipper McGrath said at the post-match ceremony. “We are glad we held our nerve to come away with the win.
“We constantly talk about what is par and what do we want to get to. We shuffled the batting order around a few teams to get the best combinations in each situation.
“The whole team got around me [as replacement captain] and helped me out there.”
“Their entire team contributed. They are not dependent on one or two players,” Kaur said of Australia at the post-match ceremony. “They know they have batters that can take control in the power play. They know they can adapt and play.
“We were there in the game to the last three or four overs. They didn’t give us easy runs and were rushing the ball all the time. They have played three or four World Cups together, and that helps.
“We accessed the wicket really well. We knew this was a chasable total, but we didn’t utilise a few loose balls when we were batting.
“Whatever was in our hands, we were trying to do that. It’s not in our control. If we get to play another game, that will be great, but whoever deserves to be there will be there.”
India’s fate is now out of their hands and the match between New Zealand and Pakistan on Monday will decide which of these three will qualify with Australia for the semifinals.
We’ll have full coverage of the game for you as the group stage comes to the crunch at the end.
Is there any stopping the Aussies as they seek a record-extending seventh T20 World Cup title?
“It was a really good game,” the left-arm spinner told the official ICC broadcast. “We know India were going to go hard. It was a quality game of cricket that went to the wire.
“We just want to stay really calm. All the players stepped up and went into autopilot when the pressure was on. It was very loud out there and it was one-sided towards India, so we knew we’d have to speak loudly and keep our cool.
“Any game against India, you mark it down on the calendar as a really tight one for everyone to chip in at various points. And we want to keep the momentum to kick on.”
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A single is swung into the leg side by Renuka off the last, but four wickets in the final over was extraordinary.
India finish on 142-9.
The new batter stepped across and is hit in line.
The foot was not back and India are eight down.
Shreyanka didn’t run and Kaur wanted it. Missed chance there. The TV umpire is checking a run out by the keeper of the former in the chaos.
Two sixes are needed as Shreyanka comes on to strike.
The new batter runs herself out first ball to get Kaur on striker with three balls to go and 13 needed.
The right-hander is bowled by a full toss for 9.
Another fielder has to come out due to a slow rate. Kaur can only drive a single off the first ball of the final over being bowled by Sutherland.
Kaur gets a single, dug out of the block hole, to keep the strike. Now 14 are needed off the final over.
Play stops with one to come of the 19th. Kaur, at the end of the run, pulled up. It looks more like exhaustion rather than a muscle injury. Let’s hope she’s OK. The physios are on their way off again.
She drives two to deep cover. There are 44 balls faced and 51 to her name with six fours.
The right-hander swings at a wide delivery and the ball thick edges fine of short third for four. A total 17 are needed off 8.
Backing away to Molineux, the right-hander drives square for four off the second ball of an over, which began with two.
It’s 12 off the over. Can they do it? A total 28 are needed off 12.
Kaur 45* (42), Vastrakar 2 (2).
From deep in her crease, the right-hander drives four over cover off Gardner. The next ball goes all along the floor through the same region for the same outcome.
One run off the over and 40 needed from 18 balls. That could be that. Vastrakar joins Kaur.
The right-hander drives straight to cover, who throws down the stumps at the non-striker’s end with Richa well short of her ground.
Richa run out (Litchfield) 1 (3)
Richa gets off the mark first ball, the last of the over, as she drives a single into the covers.
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