The 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Final was a day/night Women's Twenty20 International cricket match played on 8 March 2020 between Australia and India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne.^[2] It was the culmination of the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup, the seventh of the tournament history since it started in 2009. Australia won the match by 85 runs, securing their fifth T20 World Cup title. This was the first time that India had reached the final.

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2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Final

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Event	2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
Australia India 184/4 99 20 overs 19.1 overs
Australia won by 85 runs
Date	8 March 2020
Venue	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Player of the match	Alyssa Healy (Aus)
Umpires	Kim Cotton (NZ) on-field Ahsan Raza (Pak) on-field Gregory Brathwaite (WI) third umpire Langton Rusere (ZIM) reserve umpire
Attendance	86,174[1]
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After winning the toss, Australian captain Meg Lanning elected to bat first. Her side posted 184 runs for the loss of four wickets from 20 overs. Beth Mooney top scored for Australia with 78 not out with her opening partner Alyssa Healy setting up the innings with 75 from 39 balls. Deepti Sharma took two wickets for India, while Poonam Yadav and Radha Yadav took one apiece. In reply, Australia found early wickets, restricting India to 4/30 after the six-over powerplay. All-rounder Sharma showed some resistance to Australia's attack, managing 33 from 25; however, the final four wickets fell for 7 runs off 13 balls, with India all out in 19.1 overs for 99 runs. Megan Schutt led the Australian bowlers with four wickets, followed by Jess Jonassen with three.^[3] Healy was named the player of the match, and Mooney was named player of the tournament.^[4]

The 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup started on 21 February and was hosted by Australia. The ten teams that qualified for the tournament were split into two pools and played each other once in a round-robin format. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the semi-finals.^[5] Both semi-final matches were scheduled to be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 5 March 2020. India, who finished the first in Pool A, were the first to make the final with their match against England being abandoned due to rain.^[6] A rain-affected second-semi final saw hosts Australia narrowly defeat South Africa by five runs.^[7]

This was Australia's sixth consecutive Women's T20 World Cup finals appearance, dating back to 2010^[8] and they were seeking to become the first host team to be crowned champions since England in 2009.

In November 2019, it was announced that Katy Perry would perform both before and after the match.^[9] Perry performed two songs before the match, "Roar" and "Firework".^[10]

The match was played on International Women's Day and the attendance was 86,174. This set several records including the largest for a women's cricket match, breaking the estimated 50–60,000 who witnessed the 1997 Cricket World Cup final at Eden Gardens; the largest for a men's or women's ICC T20 World Cup final, exceeding the 66,000 that attended the 2016 ICC Men's World Twenty20 Final at Eden Gardens;^[21] the largest for a women's sporting event in Australia, surpassing the 53,034 at the Adelaide Oval for the 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final; and the largest for a final of the Women's T20 World Cup, eclipsing the 12,717 in attendance for the 2009 decider at Lord's.^[22] Organisers had hoped to beat the attendance of the women's association football 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final of 90,185,^[23] but failed. The largest women's sport attendance was 110,000 at the 1971 women's football World Cup final in Mexico.^[24]

Following the tournament, Australia's Beth Mooney became the new number-one ranked cricketer for batting in the ICC Women's Rankings in WT20I cricket.^[25] India's Shafali Verma had previously been ranked at the top, when India reached the semi-finals of the tournament.^[26] However, after only scoring two runs in the final, Verma dropped down to third place, with Suzie Bates of New Zealand retaining second spot.^[27] A selection panel named its team of the tournament, with five Australians in the squad (Healy, Mooney, Lanning, Jonassen and Schutt).^[28] India's Poonam Yadav made the final XI, with Shafali Verma named as 12th woman^[29] The rest of the squad had four players from England (Sciver, Knight, Ecclestone and Shrubsole) and one from South Africa (Wolvaardt).^[29]