India Women Vs Australia Women’s National Cricket Team Players: It was a humdinger of a game that we witnessed. India pushed Australia deep, but as they say, the experience of being there in the big moments and winning those moments counts – that’s what the defending champions once again proved tonight. The defending champions have made it to the semis for the ninth straight time in a row.
The result entices the last Group A encounter between Pakistan and New Zealand. Along with India and New Zealand, Pakistan also has a slim chance of making it to the semis. Here’s a scenario to throw some light on tomorrow’s contest – India will qualify for the semis if Pakistan beats New Zealand tomorrow, and here are the margins – by no more than 53 runs if they bat first, with no more than 9.1 overs remaining if they chase (assumption is of a first innings score of 150 in both cases).
AUSW 151/8 (20)
INDW 142/9 (20)
Australia Women won by nine runs
India Women Vs Australia Women’s National Cricket Team Players Full Squad
India Women
- Harmanpreet Kaur (c)
- Smriti Mandhana
- Shafali Verma
- Deepti Sharma
- Jemimah Rodrigues
- Richa Ghosh
- Yastika Bhatia
- Pooja Vastrakar
- Arundhati Reddy
- Renuka Singh Thakur
- Dayalan Hemalatha
- Asha Sobhana
- Radha Yadav
- Shreyanka Patil
- Sajana Sajeevan
Australia Women
- Alyssa Healy (c)
- Beth Mooney
- Phoebe Litchfield
- Ellyse Perry
- Ashleigh Gardner
- Tahlia McGrath
- Georgia Wareham
- Grace Harris
- Annabel Sutherland
- Megan Schutt
- Kim Garth
- Sophie Molineux
- Alana King
- Tayla Vlaeminck
- Darcie Brown
Tahlia McGrath | Australia stand-in captain
We want to win every game we play. India came really hard at us; the girls played well, and I’m proud of them. The whole team got around me. A lot of players in different roles today have stepped up. It was a bit hard, skidding on at times and keeping low at other times. We constantly kept talking about what a par total is. We know we have a lot of depth and can play with complete freedom. So we have shuffled our batting order a few times. Towards the end, I turned to Perry and picked her cricket brain when it got tight. She is very calm and has a great understanding of the game. Maybe it will be a touristy day tomorrow in Dubai, and then we will focus on the job.
Harmanpreet Kaur | India captain
(On the difference between the two sides tonight) I think their entire team contributes, and they don’t depend on one or two players. They have a lot of all-rounders who contribute. We also planned well, and we were there in the game. They didn’t give away easy runs and made it difficult. They are an experienced side. That is not in your control, and you must always keep your playing eleven ready, even when one or two players miss out.
Radha bowled well; she was in the game and fielding well. It would help if you had a character like that in the team who is always there. It was a chaseable total. We couldn’t hit a few loose balls when Deepti and I were batting. We can learn a lot from Australia. Whatever was in our hands, we were trying to do that, but that’s something we were not in control of. If we can play another game, that will be great. But otherwise, whoever deserves to be there, that team will be there.