Healy unfussed about her side’s batting collapses but admits that they will want to get that rectified quickly.
Healy: Batting collapses ‘not a worry’ but it’s ‘something we’d like to rectify.
76 for seven and 128 for five. Prior to the World Cup, there was also the 190 all out versus India. Alyssa Healy, the captain of Australia, dismissed those collapses with her signature half-smile and said they would like to “rectify” those scores against India and for the remainder of the World Cup.
Healy also brought up the fact that other teams have been having trouble due to subpar starts and collapses. Australia, on the other hand, had bounced back nicely from their own collapses with centuries from Ashleigh Gardner and Beth Mooney to top the table at the time, while India had struggled up front in their three games. South Africa had been bowled out for 69, and England had stumbled their way to the 179 target against Bangladesh.
“I mean, we’re allowed to lose games of cricket and we’re allowed to be put under pressure at times, in particular in World Cups,” Healy said a day before their India game on Sunday. “I think you’re going to be put under the pump in unfamiliar conditions, against unfamiliar sides at times. I think that’s the nature of the game, and like I’ve said all along, I really back our depth in our side and also in our squad that the 11 that we put out on the park are going to be able to get the job done for us. And we’re fortunate that it’s been a different person every time that stuck their hand up and said, ‘yep, I’ve got this, I can get us to a total or I can take the wickets to restrict the team’. I wouldn’t say it’s a worry, it’s something we’d like to rectify and I think there’s a lot of teams that are probably wanting to rectify that as well.”
“I think the wickets have still been good,” Healy said. “I think probably maybe a little bit of pressure has come into play at times and teams have got themselves into a little bit of a pickle. Obviously, Colombo was slightly different conditions than what we faced over here. So having to adapt really quickly is going to be really important. And I still remain that – obviously we’re here at a new destination, a fresh wicket, fresh outfield, fresh everything against a really good side – so we’re just going to have to pick up on that really quickly. And yeah, on the sort of collapse sort of situation, I think it’s on our top order to make the bulk of the runs and I think we can speak on that from both sides.”