“We want to win everything!” Ash Gardner had proclaimed earlier than the T20 World Cup remaining – and Australia’s superb ladies’s cricket group maintain doing simply that.
Meg Lanning’s green-and-gold machine symbolize simply in regards to the final in serial winners, with their triumph in Cape Town solely underlining why they’re one of many nice sports activities groups in historical past.
Indeed, after watching their clinically environment friendly 19-run victory over hosts South Africa on Sunday, England star Tammy Beaumont was left musing whether or not they is perhaps merely one of the best.
“You could argue they are the greatest cricket team of all-time. They could challenge that great Australian team of the 2000s when I was growing up,” she advised Sky Sports.
And maybe the stats again up her assertion. This was the fourth successive World Cup white-ball triumph the group has loved – three in T20 and one within the 50-over format – stretching again to 2018, with final yr’s Commonwealth Games title thrown in for good measure.
They’ve now received 43 of their final 46 accomplished white-ball matches over the previous two years.
In their final 22 T20 internationals stretching again to March 2021, they’ve misplaced simply as soon as, and that solely in a Super Over after tying with India in Mumbai in December.
In ODIs, the document’s much more startling, as they’ve received their final 15 going again to a loss in opposition to India’s ladies in Mackay in September 2021. It’s now only one 50-over loss of their final 42, going again almost six years.
Oh sure, and although they not often play the longer format, they have not truly misplaced a Test match in 9 years.
“They’re an amazing outfit and they keep out ahead by reinventing themselves, bringing in new players, young players who are performing on the crucial stage and still always the old names – Alyssa Healy, Beth Mooney, Jess Jonassen, Megan Schutt, Ellyse Perry,” stated Beaumont.
Nasser Hussain, England’s former males’s group captain, mused: “The key is they keep evolving. Any sporting organisation will tell you that if you stay at your level, others will eventually catch up.
“But that is twice now they’ve finished three-peats at world T20s, they maintain evolving, saying, ‘we’re not going to face nonetheless’.
“Ellyse Perry is a classic example. She missed the last world T20 because of injury and people were writing her off, so she had to take her game to the next level, which she has done.”
And driving all this relentless success has been captain marvel Lanning, who was lifting her seventh World Cup in all – 5 because the group’s captain – to go together with her management of the Commonwealth Games-winning outfit.
After a break for the nice of her personal well-being, the 30-year-old, who’s shouldered the captaincy of this nice group for 9 unrelentingly profitable years, was hailed once more by her gamers as a “special leader” whose calmness underneath stress rubs off.
She has some particular lieutenants too, with the likes of Healy and Perry choosing up their sixth T20 World Cup wins, Mooney scoring yet one more fifty in a remaining and now participant of the event Gardner trying like a real champion allrounder.
“She strikes the ball like no-one else in the world, an incredible talent. No wonder she’s gone for so much (money) in the (Indian) WPL,” laughed Beaumont.
Asked why Australia remained up to now forward of the pack, she added: “They play under pressure all the time – pressure to get in an under-11 side, pressure to get in a NSW under-15 side.
“You must earn the suitable to get in any Australian group – after which it’s a must to carry out.
“They’re 10 years ahead of everyone else – everyone else is playing catch-up.”
AUSTRALIAN WOMEN AT GLOBAL TOURNAMENTS:
2012 T20 World Cup (Sri Lanka) – winners
2013 World Cup (India) – winners
2014 T20 World Cup (Bangladesh) – winners
2016 T20 World Cup (India) – finalists
2017 World Cup (England) – semi-finalists
2018 T20 World Cup (West Indies) – winners
2020 T20 World Cup (Australia) – winners
2022 World Cup (Australia) – winners
2023 T20 World Cup (South Africa) – winners
ASHES
2013 (England) – misplaced
2013-14 (Australia) – misplaced
2015 (England) – received
2017-18 (Australia) – drawn
2019 (England) – received
2020-22 (Australia) – received
COMMONWEALTH GAMES
2022 (England) – received
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
