Australia Look To Cement Dominance In Women's T20 World Cup

Australia are hot top picks for their seventh title at the ladies' T20 World Cup beginning Thursday in their most memorable competition appearance since the retirement of four-time competition winning chief Meg Lanning. New captain Alyssa Healy faces a test in the Unified Bedouin Emirates, driving a group that has just flopped two times to prevail upon the 20 prize since the opposition was first organized in 2009. The 34-year-old wicketkeeper-hitter has been an individual from each of the six of Australia's earlier title wins yet said she was entering the current year's competition with "no genuine assumptions". "It's awesome against the best and whoever can be generally steady or win those little minutes en route can take care of business," Healy wrote in a segment for the Worldwide Cricket Board's site. She in any case said her group was overflowing with youthful ability, naming new to the scene all-rounder Annabel Sutherland, 22, and batting peculiarity Phoebe Litchfield, 21, as players to watch. Australia face considerable opponents India and New Zealand in their gathering. They show up in the UAE straight from a 3-0 T20 clear of the Kiwis. India's possibilities have been floated by the out of control progress of the Ladies' Head Association at home since the 20-over rivalry's debut season the year before. "On the off chance that I discuss this group, we have a couple of players who have been playing for quite a while and they realize their jobs all around well," captain Harmanpreet Kaur said. "This is the best group we are going for a T20 World Cup with." India wrapped sprinters up in 2020 and lost in the semi-finals in 2018 and 2023. New Zealand's Sophie Devine will step down as skipper toward the finish of the competition in the wake of playing in each World Cup, acquiring two next in line wraps up. "The T20 World Cup's been a significant vehicle in the turn of events and development of the ladies' down," Devine said. Sri Lanka and Pakistan balance the primary gathering while Bangladesh, Britain, Scotland, South Africa and the West Indies make up the second. 'Breaking the hindrances' The South Africans, who lost to Australia in last year's last in Cape Town, have another chief in Laura Wolvaardt who is quick to expand on that exhibition. "Arriving at our very first World Cup last in 2023 was a major milestone second for us," she composed on the ICC site. The Proteas shockingly beat Britain in the semi-finals. "It was a major 'breaking the obstructions and pushing the limits' second for the group. "Before that, we'd made the semi-finals on various events, so to have the option to go that above and beyond was vital as far as we were concerned collectively. "Presently we might want to go that above and beyond and lift the prize." Heather Knight's accomplished Britain side, which incorporates Nat Sciver-Brunt, Alice Capsey, Sophie Ecclestone and Lauren Chime, will be sharp for retribution when they meet the Proteas on October 7. Bangladesh face Scotland at Sharjah in the initial match of the competition, where the award cash is interestingly equivalent to the men's release with a $2.34 million satchel for the champs of the October 20 last. That is a 134 percent expansion on the $1 million granted to the Australians when they secured the title in South Africa last year. The ICC said the move was expected "to focus on the ladies' down and speed up its development". Bangladesh were scheduled to have the competition yet it was moved to Dubai and Sharjah following quite a while of political turmoil in July and August removed the public authority of dictatorial ex-head Sheik Hasina.