Key occasions
Shades and smears of zinc aplenty because the gamers head out for the anthems. Sri Lanka’s jaunty tune takes this each time for me. I’m allowed to say that as a totally neutral celebration. C’mon – that trilling piccolo can’t not put a spring in your step?
It’s a contemporary pitch in Sharjah and the ideas from the bottom counsel it would skid on greater than flip, particularly to start with. If dimension chat will get you going then cop a load of this – the longest boundary is the 73 metre one straight down the bottom while those sq. are 57 and 63 metres respectively. I do know, have a chilly bathe received’t you.
Groups: Phoebe Litchfield is again for Australia! Oh, and Ellyse Perry is enjoying in her NINTH T20 World Cup. Unimaginable.
Australia XI: Alyssa Healy (c & wk), Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Ashleigh Gardner, Phoebe Litchfield, Tahlia McGrath, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham, Sophie Molineux, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown
Sri Lanka XI: Vishmi Gunaratne, Chamari Athapaththu (c), Harshita Samarawickrama, Hasini Perera, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshika Silva, Hasini Perera, Anushka Sanjeewani (wk), Sugandika Kumari, Inoshi Priyadarshani, Udeshika Prabodhani, Inoka Ranaweera
Sri Lanka win the toss and can bat first
No surprises within the choice, getting a rating on the board has very a lot been the pattern in Sharjah, each matches performed on the floor on Thursday have been received by the workforce batting first.
Athapaththu says her workforce need to play fearless and thrilling cricket. Healy is unperturbed by shedding the toss, she says there’s a calmness of their camp however delivers her phrases with a ruthless glint within the eye that implies they’re very a lot going to hit the bottom operating.
It seems a scorcher in Sharjah, solar beating down however a little bit of a breeze blowing throughout the bottom to supply some succour from the rays. The mercury is ready to hit 36 levels immediately, Australia have been getting their Scandi on as a part of their preparations for this match, common sauna periods deployed in an effort to get them used to the doubtless sweltering situations.
Preamble
James Wallace
Hi there and welcome to the most recent chapter in Australian dominance in girls’s world cricket… the T20 World Cup is underway within the UAE. Alyssa Healy’s aspect have bossed the format over the previous decade with six titles on the inexperienced and gold shelf, a stellar batting and bowling line up make for a effectively oiled successful machine.
Right this moment’s opponents are Sri Lanka, no strangers to silverware themselves after scooping the Asian Cup just a few months in the past, Chamari Athapaththu’s aspect will pose an honest menace immediately in Sharjah, albeit they’ve by no means overwhelmed Australia in a T20, then once more – not many sides have.
The match has already seen a shock outcome, over in Group A New Zealand skittled India yesterday in Dubai to expire winners by 58 runs. Will we see banana skins, steamrollering or one thing in between? There’s just one option to discover out – play begins at 2pm native time/8pm AEST and 11am the place I’m in foggy outdated London city.
Ship us your ideas and theories within the normal means, I’ll be again for the toss and workforce information very shortly.
