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Even successful defeat, Ellyse Perry could lone motion successful admiration.
The Australian all-rounder hailed India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues for batting India into the World Cup final, saying their composure nether unit earned applause adjacent from their dressing room.
India recorded the highest tally pursuit successful women's ODI to acceptable up Sunday's rubric clash with South Africa.
Perry said the Australian dressing country would admit the efforts of India skipper Harmanpreet (89) and Jemimah (127 not out).
"It's truly casual to basal present successful retrospect and propulsion ideas into the wind," she replied erstwhile asked if Australia could person done thing differently.
"But astatine the extremity of the day, each of america successful our dressing country would applaud Harman and Jemi for the mode that they played, the mode that they went astir that pursuit aft astir apt losing 2 aboriginal wickets successful the powerfulness play."
"They conscionable made america pay. All recognition goes to them arsenic opposed to thing that we did oregon didn't do," Perry added portion talking to media aft the aggravated game.
She said Australia would neither sermon 2 dropped catches of Jemimah, connected 82 and 106, which allowed India to equine a challenge.
"For each of us, the intent is to ever combat and to instrumentality connected the situation and beryllium determination until the game's done. So arsenic agelong arsenic you're giving each your effort, that's each you tin do, and it is athletics astatine the extremity of the day.
"At the extremity of the day, everyone's retired determination doing perfectly everything they tin to perform. You ne'er privation to marque mistakes, but erstwhile you're playing successful high-pressure situations and there's a batch connected the line, things happen." "For us, I don't deliberation we ever speech astir it. You conscionable determination connected consecutive away. Everyone's doing perfectly each they can. Sometimes those things hap and nary 1 means it, and we're conscionable determination to enactment each other," Perry added.
Perry scored 77 portion putting connected 155 runs with Phoebe Litchfield (119) to supply Australia a beardown platform.
"I deliberation my innings is beauteous irrelevant. But astatine the extremity of the day, yeah, similar successful large matches, crossed 2 teams there's truthful overmuch endowment and truthful overmuch acquisition and exceptional show truthful someone's going to person a time retired astatine least.
"From our side, Phoebe was conscionable phenomenal. I thought the mode Ash (Ashleigh Gardner) finished the innings was superb arsenic well. She's been unbelievable. But past connected the flip side, that concern betwixt Harman and Jemi was peculiar and they made it number successful their location conditions," she said.
Perry besides refused to authorities immoderate excuses for Australia's nonaccomplishment successful the semifinal, which is their archetypal successful World Cup tournaments since a decision to India astatine the akin signifier during the 2017 edition.
"You can't locomotion distant with excuses from a nonaccomplishment successful the semifinal due to the fact that astatine the extremity of the day, you request to beryllium capable to execute connected the time that matters the most.
"But astatine the aforesaid time, we tin beryllium ace arrogant of the benignant of cricket that we've played passim this tournament, and adjacent crossed the past 12 months. We're each truly committed to that, the mode we spell astir it," the venerable all-rounder added.
Australia caput manager Shelley Nitschke, meanwhile, did not work overmuch into the impending modulation signifier which could spot skipper Alyssa Healy and adjacent Perry moving distant from the ODI acceptable up.
"Those 2 are inactive contributing truly good and it is up to them however overmuch longer they spell for. (It was) a disappointing effect tonight, we've inactive got a large summertime coming retired for us, truthful there's a batch of cricket to play still," she said.
Healy, though, confirmed that she would not beryllium astir for the adjacent ODI World Cup.
"That’s astir apt not thing that we've discussed excessively overmuch before, obviously, (we have) conscionable been focussing connected the World Cup and having thought that excessively acold up astir that benignant of transition," Nitschke added.
