After the win, Gardner stated the victory ranked «pretty high» on Australia’s unmatched listing of triumphs.

«I think at the ten-over mark in India’s batting innings, everyone had probably written us off, but I think that just shows our character within our side and that’s why the best teams win in those types of positions,» she stated.

«What we speak about is when our backs are up against the wall, we always try and find a way, and today we probably had no right to win at one point there. They were cruising and then we found a way to get some wickets and ultimately came out on top.»

India, however, squandered their probabilities with essential drops of Beth Mooney and Meg Lanning, Australia’s two greatest run-scorers on this event, in addition to leaking runs by way of quite a few misfields and overthrows.

«We showed our class today in the field and we always speak about as a group being the best fielding team in the world, and I think today really showed that,» Gardner stated. «Ellyse Perry was elite on the boundary. Whether it’s dropped catches, [or] missed opportunities in the field, those ultimately add up to quite a lot of runs and I think we took those moments when we really needed to.

«I definitely suppose Pez might be the blueprint for our facet going ahead — definitely on the boundary. At the tip of the day, that might have been the distinction between us and them.»

Gardner, who had also contributed an excellent 31 off 18 balls with the bat, revealed it was no accident that Australia are so strong in the field.

«We have KPIs and there are markers that present us whether or not we’re constructive or destructive within the area,» she said. «So there is a fairly clear indication of how we have fielded. We simply know the way to push one another. In our coaching periods, there are at all times actually high-pressure conditions, and as athletes, all of us push one another — whether or not it is on the sphere or off the sphere, whether or not it is within the fitness center, working.

«That’s something we really pride ourselves on is being fit, being strong, and ultimately that’s one of the things that has an impact in the field.»

«The Australian side, they always field very well; and from our side, we made some mistakes,» Harmanpreet stated. «But again, we have to just learn [from] whatever mistakes we have made. But obviously, the Australian side is better than us. They always field well, and today also, after I got out, their body language completely changed. The way they stopped two-three boundaries, that also made a huge difference.»

«Having such a quality domestic set-up, the WBBL, [and] some of the best international players coming over every year plays a significant part»

Jess Jonassen on what helps Australia compete beneath strain

Gardner, Jonassen and Mooney all stated that competing beneath strain in franchise tournaments akin to their very own WBBL and England’s much-newer Hundred had contributed to Australia’s energy, which is encouraging for India forward of their inaugural WPL season, which begins subsequent month.

«It probably comes back to the exposure of those sorts of situations,» Jonassen stated. «Having such a quality domestic set-up, having the WBBL, having some of the best international players coming over every year — that plays a significant part. Then we’re almost primed for those same situations on the international stage.

«We’ve had just a few younger gamers making debuts in numerous codecs this season as properly which have come from these competitions, and we’re at all times trying to attempt to enhance, and attempt to push one another to that subsequent stage and attempt to get probably the most out of each particular person as a result of in the end we all know if we are able to acquire an additional one or two % individually, then the group’s collectively going to be higher off.»

«I needed to get her to repeat it as a result of I had walked about ten laps after coaching yesterday, form of getting my head round how I might mentally take care of if I missed out once more,» Jonassen said. «I’ve bought my associate and my mum who’ve flown over, so I used to be fairly dissatisfied up till in the present day that I wasn’t in a position to play a recreation in entrance of them. Hopefully another and it is one other profitable one.»

One extra will imply a contest for the trophy towards both hosts South Africa or England. Besides India at this World Cup, solely England have seemed able to threatening Australia. Whoever it’s might want to do extra than simply threaten, as India came upon.