Women’s T20 World Cup: South Africa hope pace bowling attack can subdue Australia | Cricket News – Act Daily News

CAPE TOWN: Whatever the lead to Sunday’s Women’s Twenty20 World Cup last towards powerhouse Australia, South Africa captain Sune Luus says the workforce already really feel like winners having grow to be the primary aspect from the nation to succeed in a world last.
South Africa shall be outright underdogs towards the five-time champions, regardless of having a robust bowling lineup and the homeground benefit at what’s prone to be a sold-out Newlands in Cape Town.
But having surprised England in a tense semi-final on Friday, Luus believes they laid down a marker for ladies’s cricket within the nation from which they’ll develop.
“We are achieving our goals, we wanted to inspire a nation and put women’s cricket on the map, to get young boys and girls to pick up a bat and ball. Hopefully tomorrow is just another step in that,” Luus advised reporters on Saturday.

“We never thought people in our country would stand in long queues to buy tickets for a women’s cricket match. It is something special. I hope once this World Cup is finished, that will stay the same.
“There are a variety of good issues to return out of this match. If individuals don’t take girls’s cricket severely by now, then there is no such thing as a hope.”
South Africa had been to five previous World Cup semi-finals across all formats without success, but now stand on the brink of a career-defining moment for what is largely a young group of players.
Luus said that in the final staying focused and not letting the occasion get to them would be crucial.
“We have at all times recognized we’ve the power to be within the last, it was simply to interrupt the semi-final curse,” she says.
“For us it’s to remain calm and deal with what we do finest. We have to belief our abilities and talents.”
South Africa have lost all six previous T20 meetings with Australia, including a six-wicket defeat in the pool stages of this competition when they clashed in Gqeberha.

“We have been 20-30 runs brief in that recreation,” Luus says. “Australia bat extraordinarily deep. Whether we bat or bowl first, we’ve to place up a giant combat, we’ve to take it as deep as attainable.
“Our pace attack is one of our strongest (attributes). Australia know what’s coming. It will be an even contest between one of the best batting lineups in the world and one of the best bowling attacks.”