Australia v West Indies: ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 semi-final – live! | Sport

Within the meantime, have a learn of Megan Maurice’s interview with Alana King, on the Australian leggie’s sluggish rise to prominence.

I’ve clearly needed to wait a couple of extra years than others, nevertheless it’s meant that I’m actually proud of the place I’m and I’m assured in the place my cricket is. I believe you’ve received to, initially, be comfy in your individual pores and skin. And I’ve accomplished that over the previous couple of years.

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That’s about 25 minutes from now.

Listening to it’ll be a minimum of an hour as soon as the drizzle has definitively stopped earlier than the sport will get going. I’ll deliver updates as and after they come by means of. When you’re on the market then do get in contact, it’s not prefer it has been quiet within the cricket world of late? Save me from consuming my tenth custard cream of the hour.

It isn’t raining in Wellington however it’s gray and misty. There aren’t any floodlights and the sunshine is fairly poor for the time being. All of it seems to be a bit just like the backing for a Kate Bush music video. The clouds are bust.

After which there have been 4. Simply.

This Girls’s World Cup has had all of it – runs, wickets, diving catches, kind defying upsets and fingernail gnashing finishes. None extra so than the ultimate over, closing (no) ball drama that infolded between India and South Africa that determined the semi-final line ups. Indian heartache on the sphere was met concurrently by West Indian jubilation off it.

Welcome to the Basin Reserve, Wellington for this primary Girls’s World Cup Remaining between yella-hot favourites for the trophy Australia and the maroon, mercurial, sometimes-maddening-but-definitely-capable-of-giant-toppling, West Indies.

Each side are lacking key gamers for as we speak’s ding-dong in Wellington. The large information is that Ellyse Perry hasn’t had fairly sufficient time to show her health after struggling again spasms – Meg Lanning shall be unable to name upon her talismanic all-rounder. All hasn’t been calm within the West Indies camp both, with leg-spinner Afy Fletcher testing constructive for the Covid and Mandy Mangru, the 19 yr outdated all-rounder being allowed to take her place as a Covid sub.

All of the latest match-ups (together with a thumping 7 wicket win for OZ when the perimeters met earlier within the match) counsel it will likely be the Aussies who safe a spot in Sunday’s closing. However you simply by no means know. If the match has proven us something up to now it’s that something can and simply properly would possibly occur. Cricket eh?

Jim right here with the decision, sadly not from Wellington (the place there’s a little bit of drizzle round) however from a entrance room in South London (the place it’s tremendous. Y’know, tremendous.)

I’ll be again with information of the groups and the toss shortly, play will get underway at 11am native time/ 11pm BST and 9am AEDT.