Australia skipper Meg Lanning on Sunday hailed the crew’s batting order, saying that the great thing about it’s outlined by the depth. In their match towards New Zealand on the Basin Reserve within the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, Australia was diminished to 113/4.
But Ellyse Perry (68) and Tahlia McGrath (57) put up a stand of 101 for the fifth wicket earlier than Ashleigh Gardner’s late blitz of 48 off simply 18 balls powered Australia to 269/8 in 50 overs.
Australia then defended 270 with aplomb as New Zealand have been bowled out for simply 128. The big 141-run win has now taken Australia to the highest of the factors desk.
“We thought we have been in a little bit of stress, however that’s the great thing about our batting lineup that now we have nice depth. We have gamers who can rescue us in a approach that permits us to construct the platform to play the best way we did on the again finish,” said Meg in the post-match presentation ceremony.
Meg was delighted with Ashleigh’s return to the eleven after she tested positive for Covid-19 and had to be isolated.
“It was great to have Gardner back, it was a tough 10 days for her and looking forward to the rest of the tournament for her. It certainly gave us the momentum going into the bowling innings.”
Meg was additionally happy with Australia fetching early wickets to push New Zealand out of successful the match after Ashleigh, Ellyse and Tahlia did exceedingly nicely with the bat. In defence of 269, younger pacer Darcie Brown took the brand new ball and dismissed Amelia Kerr, Suzie Bates and Frankie Mackay in a superb seven-over spell.
“It definitely gave us the momentum going into the bowling innings. We felt it was rating with out being a match-winning one, we knew we needed to take early wickets, that’s why we went arduous early with the ball. I had advised (Megan) Schutt that she could not open the bowling, however I’m undecided she was ready to return on so late. Bit totally different right this moment but it surely appeared to work.”
Meg admitted that leaving left-arm spin spearhead and number one ODI bowler Jess Jonassen out of playing eleven wasn’t an easy decision.
“We had a tough selection today, Jess Jonassen missed out, she is a world-class bowler but we felt we wanted the extra pace option was the way to go because we wanted to be aggressive up front. It worked today, it may not another day, but that’s the way we want to look at every game this World Cup.”
Australia’s subsequent match within the match is towards the West Indies on the identical venue on Tuesday.
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