Disenchanted Australia skipper Tahlia McGrath stated the defending champions had been a little bit bit off the mark and had the misfortune to return up towards a South Africa facet on high of their recreation within the Ladies’s Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals.
Six-times champions Australia will miss out on the ultimate for under the second time in 9 editions of the event after South Africa romped to an eight-wicket victory in Dubai on Thursday.
“They performed rather well tonight, in event play you may’t afford to be off the mark in any respect, we had been off the mark tonight and so they had been spot on,” McGrath, who was standing in as captain for the injured Alyssa Healy, advised a information convention.
“It is disappointing, it is onerous to take, however we’ll get round one another, we’ll regroup and there is nonetheless loads of cricket on the calendar.”
After dropping the toss, Australia made 134 for 5 of their 20 overs, just for South Africa, spearheaded by a glowing 74 not out from Anneke Bosch, to rattle off 135-2 in simply over 17 overs.
“We had been a number of quick with the bat however we nonetheless thought if we bowled effectively that was a aggressive whole,” McGrath added.
“However they made it seem like a reasonably good wicket once they batted and we had been simply barely off with our plans.”
South Africa go on to face the winner of the Friday’s second semi-final between West Indies and New Zealand within the title decider on Sunday.
McGrath stated there have been nonetheless loads of positives to take from the event for Australia, who’re in transition after the retirement of a few of the gamers who helped them turn into the dominant power within the ladies’s recreation.
“We now have had plenty of change, we have some gamers step up and play some new roles,” she stated.
“We had so many contributors, there was barely a recreation the place somebody dominated, each recreation completely different folks would arise with bat and ball.”
“Everybody did their position, everybody did what was wanted for the group. So many positives with a few of the children, some folks enjoying out of place.”
“It was simply unlucky within the semi-final that we had been just a bit bit off.”
