Australian skipper Meg Lanning has revealed her staff’s main motto strolling into the upcoming Commonwealth Video games 2022 as she mentioned that the World Champions can be trying to win the gold medal. The Commonwealth Video games are set to host ladies’s cricket for the primary time, ranging from July 29 on the Edgbaston Cricket Floor in Birmingham.
The mega occasion will witness the game making a return as cricket has not been performed in Commonwealth Video games since 1998. Even again then, it was the boys’s 50-over sport that was performed and now ladies’s cricket is about to make debut this season. Eight groups have earned a spot on the worldwide stage and can play within the 20-over format, with the video games being granted T20I standing.
“We’re going over there to win gold, there’s little doubt about that. We go on the market to win each sport that we are able to and the primary Commonwealth Video games medal up for grabs in ladies’s cricket is actually one thing we’re striving for,” Lanning was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.
Australia have been slotted in Group A and includes three extra groups – India, Pakistan, and Barbados. The Meg Lanning-led Australian facet is the present World Champion in each the ODI and the T20I codecs and they’re going to absolutely be the favourites for the competitors. The skipper, nonetheless, needs and goals to achieve the identical degree of long-term consistency in T20I cricket as they’ve in ODIs.
“It’s one thing now we have spoken about as a bunch as a complete and in addition inside our talent teams as properly, when it comes to how can we get that little bit higher and push the boundaries that little bit greater than now we have up to now. We’ve got received a few issues now we have been engaged on each as a staff and individually as properly,” said Lanning.
To symbolize Australia on an enormous stage is de facto thrilling: Meg Lanning
Australia will likely be taking part in a tri-series in opposition to hosts Eire and Pakistan earlier than they begin their Commonwealth Video games marketing campaign in opposition to India of their first match scheduled on July 29. With Matthew Mott departing to turn out to be England males’s white-ball coach, Meg is assured that the staff will proceed to play their model of cricket underneath the steerage of interim coach Shelley Nitschke.
“It’ll appear and feel barely totally different with Shell in cost versus Motty. However each comparable messaging when it comes to how we wish to play the sport, take the sport on, we actually wish to go on the market and be aggressive and play with numerous freedom. Being a part of that larger Australian staff is one thing we actually wish to embrace. To symbolize Australia on a very massive stage, a brand new platform for the sport to have the ability to attain a brand new viewers is one thing that’s actually thrilling for the game,” Lanning concluded.
