Alyssa Healy never stopped believing after recovering from slump to win fifth T20 World Cup for Australia

The 29-year-old arrived in the tournament in the worst form of her illustrious career but produced a performance for the ages at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to help beat India

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Australia's T20 World Cup heroine Alyssa Healy says keeping faith with her technique was key to being able to inspire her country to glory over India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Despite having averaged 53.14 during a faultless 2019, the 29-year-old came into the tournament off the back of five single-figure scores and facing something of a crisis of confidence.

But the big stage brought the best out of Healy, who struck half-centuries against India and Bangladesh in the group phase.

And she saved the best performance - perhaps of her entire international career which includes four centuries and nearly 4,000 runs across all formats - for the final as she hammered 75 from 39 balls at the top of the order.

Thanks to Beth Mooney's 78 Australia would eventually put on 184 for 4 - a total always beyond the reach of debut finalists India who were bowled out for just 99.

Healy insists she never deviated from her attacking instincts and hailed the support of captain Meg Lanning, head coach Matthew Mott, and national selector Shawn Flegler for keeping faith with her.

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"I was getting the same feedback from Meg and Motty and Flegs as well that that's my role on the side," she explained. "I'd like to give myself a couple of extra balls to get myself going, but the way I approach my cricket is how can I get my team off to the best start possible? 

"The low scores came, and I've had an unbelievable ride over the last two years with not a lot of low scores.

"So for me, it was always bound to happen. I'm surprised it went as long as it did without. So for me, it was just making sure I was backing the processes I had in place and the plans that I had, and I guess to be able to do it tonight in front of a lot of people in a big occasion, I think will give me a huge amount of confidence.

"But the way that this team's approached this tournament, in my mind, has been fantastic. There's been a lot of talk about batting ovals, but to come out and play the way we did tonight, we were never in doubt, to be honest.

"I thought India sort of dominated with the ball the last time we played against them, and for me, it was my job to get out there and put them on their back foot early. 

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"For it to come off was fantastic, but then to see each and every batter to come in with freedom and get us to a really decent total in the final was really cool."

The Queenslander has been part of all five of Australia's World Cup triumphs in this format but having replicated the success of husband Mitchell Starc - who claimed a world title on home soil with the men's team in 2015 - she ranks this as the best success yet.

"We always speak about I think there was a lot more pressure on us going into the 2018 World Cup in the West Indies, where we were coming off the 50-over World Cup," Healy said. "We hadn't had a trophy. 

"We always felt like there was more pressure on us then, but we were put under the pump a lot in this tournament. We travelled around the country. 

"We had games in quick succession, and not one moment did any of our group complain. We embraced the whole tournament for what it was, and we just went out there and enjoyed ourselves and ultimately played the best cricket when it counted.

"To sit here tonight with metal around our neck at the MCG is going to be very hard to beat."