| Australia 356-5 (50 overs): Healy 170, Haynes 68, Shrubsole 3-46 |
| England 285 (43.4 overs): Sciver 148*, Jonassen 3-57, King 3-64 |
| Australia won by 71 runs |
| Scorecard |
Australia won the Women's World Cup by outclassing England, cementing their status as the premier international sports team on the planet.
The 50-over title was added to the T20 World Cup and Ashes crowns by the Australians.
The highest score in a women's or men's World Cup final is 170 by Alyssa Healy. Her partnership of 160 with Rachael Haynes and Australia's total of 356-5 are women's final bests, the latter a record for any team against England.
England, who were huge favorites to win the title, chose to field first in perfect batting conditions. Haynes and Healy were also dropped.
NatSciver scored a century as England lost a lot of their wickets in the chase.
When England were finally bowled out for 285, spinner Alana King and seamer Jess Jonassen took three of the four England wickets to fall.
Despite losing their first three games of the tournament, England made it to the final.
Australia were crowned world champion for the seventh time with a perfect record of nine wins from nine games.
It was thought that England would need everything to go their way in order to beat Australia, who entered the final with only one defeat in their previous 38 one-day internationals.
It seemed like a gift for Heather Knight to give away the chance to bat first.
The Australians dictated terms throughout and the defending champion passed up the chance to post a score that might have pressured them.
The dropped catches were a hammer blow to England. By the end, he was scoring runs at will.
The most dramatic World Cup ever denied the final it deserved, the contest was effectively over at the interval.
Australia set a gold standard that could take years for every other women's team to match.
In Australia's semi-final win over West Indies, opener Healy made a century and here he went one better, playing one of the all-time great one-day knocks.
Australia took only 37 from the first 10 overs in the face of some searching new-ball bowling, which made the assault all the more remarkable.
When the drops came in the same Kate Cross over, they were just starting to go through the gears. Haynes was on 47 when a diving Danni Wyatt missed a chance at point, and Healy was on 41 when the ball burst through NatSciver's hands.
He reached a half-century from 62 balls. She scored in all areas of the ground, toying with England by hitting the ball where a fielder had just been moved from. Her third 50 came from just 29 balls.
After Haynes miscued to point, Beth Mooney arrived to score 62 from 47 balls in a stand of 156 that came in little more than 16 overs. Australia scored 120 runs in the last 10 overs.
She became the first woman to pass 500 runs at a single World Cup when she was stumped off Shrubsole.
All inside a packed Hagley Oval stood to applaud Healy, Australia's magnificent match-winner and player of the tournament.
It was a significant achievement for England to have made the final after three losses. They would have been out of the game if they had lost to New Zealand.
They responded with five straight wins, but were overwhelmed by the Australians in the final.
Off-spinner Charlie Dean was targeted to go for 34 from four after he leaked 34 runs from his 10 overs.
Shrubsole, England's match-winner in the final five years ago, escaped the carnage with a respectable 3-46.
England scored more quickly than Australia, but only Sciver passed 27.
She scored heavily through the leg side, often with ingenuity, three figures from 90 balls.
How different would this final have been if Sciver had been on the field?
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