The Australian women’s team’s stunning 2017 World Cup semi-final loss to India may have “reshaped” their “values,” but all-rounder Tahlia McGrath claimed ahead of her team’s league match against the ‘Women In Blue’ on Saturday that they haven’t really talked about it in recent times.
Six times champions, Australia, whose last World Cup campaign ended in a 36-run loss to India in the semifinals five years ago, is presently atop the table with four wins in as many games.
India, on the other side, dropped to third place in the overall standings after losing by four wickets to defending champions England following three wins.
“That (2017 semi-final) game was a long time ago, and one that was perhaps spoken about more immediately thereafter.” ESPNcricinfo reported Tahlia McGrath as stating, “It was something we really looked at and altered our principles and how we approached… sort of how we play our brand of cricket.”
“However, it’s not something we’ve talked about too much in recent times.” As a result, we take a straightforward approach. Take each game as it comes and play the style of cricket we like. So we’re extremely delighted with the brand we’re playing right now, and we’re hoping for more in the future.”
“In the recent India series, we had a lot of success against them” (at home in September-October last year). But, because it’s a new site and competition, anything could happen, and they’re a world-class team,” she explained.
“We’ll do our homework on them, put in a lot of work tomorrow, and give ourselves the best chance of beating them on Saturday.” Following their loss against England, the 26-year-old from Adelaide expects India to come after them hard. “We kind of expect every team to come at us hard.” It’s a really aggressive style of cricket side that plays against us, which is one of the reasons we enjoy it.’ As a result, we anticipate a significant difficulty. We’re anticipating some hard hitting and, of course, Jhulan Goswami on the field.