Because it stands, the Australian ladies’s cricket group are the defending ODI World Cup and T20 World Cup champions apart from being the Commonwealth Video games gold medallists from a pair years in the past. In reality, such is their dominant standing in world cricket that since 2018 no different group has gained a world title.
The sturdy place although is a double-edged sword, reckons skipper Alyssa Healy, who will captain Australia within the T20 World Cup beginning subsequent month within the UAE.
Talking to Fox Sports activities in a latest interview, Healy admitted feeling that the group all the time has a goal on its again. “Yeah, we do really feel it. We’re being hunted so closely by all of the groups that we’re nearly taking part in our closing each sport. Groups are coming so exhausting at us as a result of they wish to knock us out early,” Healy mentioned.
Moreover, Healy conceded that adapting shortly to the calls for of a world title protection is what has helped Australia improve their talents within the shortest format of the sport.
“We’ve to modify on actually shortly, and I feel that has helped our method to T20 cricket, particularly over the past couple of World Cups. We have to swap on and get shifting and get into the event as quick as we will, as a result of we’re being hunted at each alternative,” Healy mentioned.
“Successful a World Cup is actually, actually exhausting to do, within the T20 format particularly. To be as constant as what we have now been in that format is a tremendous achievement. If it’s 4 in a row, superb, but when not, if we give it a red-hot crack and we don’t come away with the trophy, then that’s okay,” she added.
Australia – the reigning champions – are slotted alongside India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka in Group A of the 10-team event that can kickstart from October 3.