Meg Lanning’s side have wasted no time in pushing into top gear in the Caribbean
Same, same but different. On the face of it, Australia always do this. They come into a global tournament, cruise through the group stage, and arrive at the semi-finals as logical favourites. Invariably the top-ranked side on arrival, expectations are in keeping with a national side that has only rarely not been the top of the pile in whatever format of the game they are competing in.
However, as far as mindset is concerned, this is far from a repeat of what has come before – not least their failed efforts to defend their World Cup and World T20 crowns over the last two years. As coach Matthew Mott has explained, the reason why that 2017 misadventure cut deep was because they left feeling as though they had so much more to give but had traded that in by playing within themselves without recognition that the world was catching up.
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