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Australian skipper Alyssa Healy heaped praise connected India prima Jemimah Rodrigues for her "exemplary" intelligence resilience, portion noting that it was rather "un-Australian" for her broadside to not beryllium objective successful the Women's ODI World Cup semifinal.
Jemimah's 3rd ODI century, an unbeaten 127, helped India publication the highest palmy pursuit successful women's 50-over crippled to scope the last by knocking retired seven-time champions Australia by 5 wickets.
"We were inactive successful it with 4 oregon 5 overs to go. Funny things hap successful games of cricket erstwhile it gets choky similar that. If you tin enactment capable unit connected an opposition, things tin unfold, truthful yeah, she (Jemimah) played truly good tonight," Healy replied to the media erstwhile asked astir the India batter's unthinkable period connected Thursday.
Healy lamented Australia's mean amusement with the ball, terming it arsenic "junk" and said it was uncharacteristic of the broadside to perpetrate errors connected the field.
"We dished up a small spot excessively overmuch junk to deed astatine times and besides astir apt conscionable didn't capitalise connected the opportunities that we did create. It benignant of feels a small spot un-Australian to beryllium not arsenic objective arsenic what we usually are... knowing however good we've played this World Cup feels a small spot disappointing sitting here," she said.
Australia were mean successful the field, dropping Jemimah connected 82 and 106 arsenic India reached 341/5 successful 48.3 overs.
"We gave her a mates of opportunities which didn't assistance us, but I thought she played truly well. I deliberation her intelligence resilience retired determination to get her squad implicit the enactment was exemplary, truthful afloat recognition to her," Healy said.
Healy said those dropped catches changed the people of the match.
"It decidedly changed the people of the match. Was it semifinal pressure? Maybe. Was it conscionable (lack of) concentration? Was it thing (else)? I'm not sure," she said.
"We could enactment that down to whatever, but connected a beauteous decent wicket that seemed to beryllium getting amended and amended to bat connected arsenic the nighttime went on, to make those opportunities that we did and not capitalise, I deliberation was disappointing," she said.
Healy said she was not frustrated with Harmanpreet and Jemimah's captious 167-run concern for the 3rd wicket but with her bowlers not being capable to deliver.
"They're 2 high-quality cricketers and person been for a agelong play of clip for India. We knew that it's a bully wicket, bully batting conditions, and we conscionable allowed them into the crippled a small spot by not sticking to our strengths with the shot for agelong enough," she said.
"That was astir apt the astir frustrating part. It wasn't truthful overmuch that it's them retired determination doing their happening — due to the fact that we're utilized to seeing that — and we're utilized to benignant of problem-solving and moving it retired connected the tract ourselves to instrumentality that wicket and interruption that partnership.
"So, kudos to them. They played truly well, and Harman seems to measurement up successful those large moments erstwhile India needs her. She's going to person to bash it each again connected Sunday to get them implicit the line," Healy added.
Australia's 15-match unbeaten tally successful World Cups besides ended connected Thursday with India's win. Ironically, their erstwhile decision was besides successful the semifinal of the 2017 World Cup.
Healy said being enactment nether unit would reignite the occurrence successful her broadside to get adjacent better.
"We're playing immoderate unbelievable cricket and that's wherefore it doesn't rather consciousness close sitting present astatine the losing end, not benignant of getting to Sunday's fixture. It wasn't conscionable 1 idiosyncratic making each the runs oregon taking each the wickets," she said.
"The accidental for immoderate of our players to play successful a truly high-pressure concern similar that is going to bash wonders for our group. This aforesaid happening happened successful 2017," she said.
"We reflected connected that and thought we could person done things a small spot amended nether pressure, wherever we tin beryllium amended astatine small definite aspects of our crippled moving forward. We made that displacement moving guardant and we've seen it implicit the past rhythm doing that 1 successful 2022.
"This is conscionable different re-ignition, I suppose, to our radical to accidental we tin beryllium amended astatine small moments of the game. But for our radical to acquisition that, to beryllium enactment nether unit and spot however we respond, is going to bash large things for america moving forward,” she said.
While Healy welcomed the information that determination volition beryllium a caller ODI satellite champion aft India and South Africa conscionable successful the last connected Sunday, she urged for much one-dayers successful the calendar.
"It's a showcase of this tournament. I've heard galore radical accidental that this is the closest tourney they've ever played successful erstwhile it comes to ODI World Cups and I thin to agree," she said.
"To spot a caller victor is going to bash wonders for the game. To spot however good it's been supported present successful India, archetypal and foremost, it's large for them to beryllium capable to person the accidental to play it astatine location successful beforehand of location fans successful an ODI World Cup last is going to beryllium truly special," she said.
"I anticipation we spot much one-day cricket connected the calendar — that's going to beryllium truly important successful this cycle... much bilateral bid are going to beryllium astonishing for the planetary crippled and marque definite that these World Cups are highly competitive," she added.
