The one crew Australia have misplaced to since March 2021 now stand of their means of one other T20 World Cup remaining.
Defending champions Australia head into the semi-final at Newlands on Thursday, as agency favourites, wielding a 3-2 edge over India in T20 World Cup encounters.
5-time winners in seven earlier iterations of the 20-over showpiece, Australia are but to drop a sport on the eighth version in South Africa.
However in line with batter Beth Mooney, latest precedents of arising quick in opposition to India, runners-up of the 2020 T20 World Cup, leaves no room for complacency.
“I am anticipating it to be an enormous contest, clearly,” Mooney mentioned in Cape City on Tuesday.
“They’ve pushed us considerably in the previous couple of years and received a bunch of match-winners of their line-up as effectively. So, we’re not anticipating a simple sport by any means.
“As we all know, (in) semi-finals everybody’s ranging from scratch and nobody’s received any factors main into that first semi, so now we’ll be on our sport from ball one.”
En path to the knockouts, Australia, table-toppers in Group 1, routed oppositions by margins as huge as 97 runs (New Zealand), eight wickets (Bangladesh), 10 wickets (Sri Lanka) and 6 wickets (South Africa).
In circumstances which have aided spinners and rewarded quicks for astute studying of them, Meg Lanning’s facet made good on their match battle cry, “adaptability”, all through the group levels.
Georgia Wareham, Darcie Brown, Grace Harris stood out with the ball. Allrounders Ashleigh Gardner, Ellyse Perry and Tahlia McGrath left their imprint, too.
Vice-captain Alyssa Healy, who is ready to fit again into the XI having sat out their final group sport on Saturday with a left quad grievance, has led the cost with the bat.
India, for his or her half, have personnel who’re a pressure to reckon with in their very own proper, underscored Mooney.
“They play a variety of spinners. So, I am positive we’ll see a variety of the batters within the high order dealing with a major quantity of spin,” Mooney mentioned.
“And we have seen with Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana on the high of the order; they go fairly arduous, and Richa Ghosh within the center… We definitely know the type of play they’ve come at us with previously .
“They know us fairly effectively, too, so it will not be any surprises, I do not suppose, come Thursday afternoon.”
A rematch of the 2005 ODI World Cup remaining, the 2020 T20 World Cup title conflict and the 2022 Commonwealth Video games remaining, this fixture marks the primary time because the 2017 ODI decider that Australia have taken on India in a significant occasion’s semi-final.
The 2 sides final met in a five-T20I collection performed throughout Navi Mumbai and Mumbai in December.
Though Australia gained the competition 4-1, India’s Tremendous-Over victory within the second match, earlier than a 47,000-strong crowd, confirmed they’ll beat the world-beaters on their evening.
One of many standout performers in that sport, swing bowler Renuka Singh, is India’s main wicket-taker at this match.
Mooney, the main run-scorer on that tour, believes whatever the circumstances at Newlands, which is prone to be rain-free on Thursday, Australia have each motive to be cautious of her.
“We performed in opposition to her again within the collection in India in December and she or he’s a helpful bowler for them up entrance,” Mooney mentioned.
“She’s definitely one we’ll take a look at as a batting unit as to how we will nullify her menace as a result of I believe she has been fairly unimaginable this T20 World Cup.”
