Asked whether the side pays any notice of external speculation that the team has lost its heir of invincibility, Gardner dismissed the notion.
“It’s certainly not language that we would ever use within our environment,” she said.
“(The media) can talk about our team that way. We always come into these tournaments and there is an expectation that Australia should do well, but I think within our group at the moment, we’re staying so present in what the moment is and taking the positives and the learnings out of each game, each training session, and focusing on that, controlling what we can control.
“We can’t control what people say about us, but if we back our best cricket, we know that we can beat most teams. So I think just believing that is the biggest thing for us.”