Australia vs Pakistan – Match deserted
Rain prevented Australia getting a last likelihood to fine-tune earlier than leaving house soil, with their third T20 towards Pakistan rained out on Sunday afternoon in Canberra with out a ball being bowled.
Light however persistent rain at Manuka Oval meant the gamers by no means took to the sector for the lifeless rubber encounter, leaving the hosts to say the three-game sequence 2-0.
The gamers will now head to Sydney for Monday night time’s Australian Cricket Awards earlier than flying to South Africa on Tuesday, with warm-up video games scheduled towards India (February 6) and Ireland (February 8).
Australia head into the event as a sizzling favorite, however Lanning stated they’d be coping with a string of groups coming to take their crown.
“We’re very aware there’s a lot of good teams out there who are chasing the same amount of success; we certainly aren’t complacent in any way,” she stated. “We have high expectations on ourselves…we’re a very driven, very competitive group so that naturally lends itself to big tournaments like this where you need to be at your best.”
The skipper stated Australia had not been planning to make use of Sunday’s conflict to provide depth gamers an opportunity heading into the showpiece event, though 9 bowlers had been utilized in Friday’s second recreation of the sequence to cut back the workload on the frontline quicks.
“She’s striking well, it’s all going to plan…I assume if she can, she’ll play some of those practice games over there,” Lanning stated. “She’s a very entertaining batter who takes the game on, puts the opposition under pressure from ball one, that’s an important part of T20 cricket.
“The different factor is simply expertise in large video games. She’s carried out rather well beneath stress earlier than, and that is one thing not each group has.”
Australia’s opening recreation of the World Cup shall be towards New Zealand in Paarl on February 12.
Source web site: www.espncricinfo.com
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