http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 Women captain satisfied with team’s batting performance – Cricket News Update
With her team having made it to the final of the ongoing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jodie-Maree-Fields-c67118, has expressed satisfaction with the team’s batting effort, despite the fact that they only managed to post a total of 115 runs on the board.
“The West Indies girls bowled really well in those conditions,” said Fields. “Their spinners slowed it right up and made it difficult to score down the ground. You had to resort to shots square of the wicket. I thought we did well to get to 115 after a pretty disastrous start.”
The semi-final was played on October 5 at the R Premadasa stadium in Colombo – a surface which did not prove conducive to batters. Australia won the toss and elected to bat first but the batters struggled to extract runs from the surface, plagued as they were by West Indies’ http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shanel-Francine-Daley-c89696 (4-0-23-2) and Shaquana Quintyne (4-0-23-2).
Batters such as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Deandra-Jalisa-Shakira-Dottin-c53408 in their line-up.
However, only two batters (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ellyse-Alexandra-Perry-c55924 (2/19) on the rampage, the Windies Women were eventually forced to concede a 28-run defeat.
“I'm actually pretty happy with our batting throughout the tournament,” Fields went on to say. “While we haven't had anyone with big scores, we've always had guys come in and keep the scoreboard ticking over. We'll see what happens in the final. Hopefully, one of those girls will click and we'll get a big score.”
The victory propelled the Australia Women to the tournament final, which they will be playing against the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 Women on October 7 at the same venue.
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