West Indies Eye History Connects Australia in Women’s T20 Final

KOLKATA: West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor said Saturday the aggregation had “nothing to lose”adjoin three
-time champions Australia in the women’s World Twenty20 final in Kolkata.

Making their aboriginal T20 final afterwards declining in the endure three semi-final attempts, Windies women accept a adventitious to access the history books with the men’s aggregation aggressive England for the big cost afterwards Sunday.

It can be a attenuate hat-trick of titles for Windies candid with the Under-19 boys appropriation the adolescence World Cup in February.

“It’s the aboriginal final for us. I apperceive there’s traveling to be some fretfulness about because it’s the aboriginal time but we just accept to embrace it, just try to be calm and composed and just go out there and action for it,” Stafanie told reporters on the eve of the final on Sunday.

“But we are not abashed by them. They accept won three titles, we accept annihilation to lose. We charge to be absolute and relaxed.”

The fifth-ranked West Indies congenital a abiding drive to accompany out their best in the semi-final adjoin a New Zealand ancillary that had emerged safe in the league.

The Meg Lanning-led Australia is on accustomed arena afterwards acceptable three beeline titles but the skipper accepted that “tomorrow is a new day”.

If annal abandoned mattered, Australia would be the cutting favourite to win on Sunday, accepting baffled the West Indies in all their eight antecedent T20 Internationals, but Lanning is alert of the challenge.

“We’re assured a absolutely boxy action tomorrow and the West Indies will absolutely appear out battlefront so we’re searching advanced to the claiming and accomplish abiding we’re appropriate to go appropriate from the start,” said Lanning on Saturday.

Australia accept ailing at the appropriate time afterwards accident to the Kiwis in the alliance and displayed its accomplishment with a five-run win over old foe England in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Lanning said the absolute aggregation was “excited” about arena the final at the iconic Eden Gardens.

Teams :

Australia: Meg Lanning (capt), Kristen Beams, Alex Blackwell, Nicola Carey, Lauren Cheatle, Sarah Coyte, Rene Farrell, Holly Ferling, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Beth Mooney, Erin Osborne, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt and Elyse Villani.

West Indies: Stafanie Taylor (capt), Merissa Aguilleira, Shemaine Campbelle, Shamilia Connell, Britney Cooper, Deandra Dottin, Afy Fletcher, Stacy-Ann King, Kyshona Knight, Kycia Knight, Hayley Matthews, Anisa Mohammed, Shaquana Quintyne, Shakera Selman and Tremayne Smartt.