Australia has named a 15-strong squad for the upcoming ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
Australia has won the tournament seven times and is the defending champion.<\/p>\n
Women’s ODI cricket<\/p>\n
ICC rankings<\/p>\n
1: Australia \u2014 rating 1672: England \u2014 rating 1263: India \u2014 rating 1244: New Zealand \u2014 rating 965: South Africa \u2014 rating 906: Sri Lanka \u2014 rating 82<\/p>\n
Time has moved on since the last edition of the World Cup, with the retirements of Meg Lanning and Rachael Haynes, and the absence of players like Jess Jonassen and Amanda-Jade Wellington.<\/p>\n
But 10 members of the squad from New Zealand in 2022 have been chosen to represent Australia again.<\/p>\n
Phoebe Litchfield, Georgia Voll, Sophie Molineux, Georgia Wareham and Kim Garth have been included in their first 50-over World Cup squad.<\/p>\n
The Australian team will prepare for the tournament, heading to the subcontinent to play three ODIs against hosts India from 14-20 September in New Chandigarh and New Delhi.<\/p>\n
Molineux \u2014 who has been recovering from a knee injury \u2014 will miss the series against India but is expected to be fit and ready to take part in the World Cup.<\/p>\n
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Australia goes into the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup as defending champions, although players like Meg Lanning and Rachael Haynes will be missing this time around. (Getty Images: ICC\/Kai Schwoerer)<\/p>\n
The last tournament was delayed by a year because of COVID-19, meaning there has only been three years between editions this time round.<\/p>\n
Australia’s opening game of the World Cup will be against New Zealand on October 1 in Indore.<\/p>\n
The team will then face Sri Lanka (October 4), Pakistan (October 8), India (October 12), Bangladesh (October 16), England (October 22) and Bangladesh (October 25).<\/p>\n
The top four from the round robin will qualify for the semifinals.<\/p>\n
The ICC Cricket World Cup will run from September 30 to November 2.<\/p>\n
Squad:<\/p>\n
Alyssa Healy (NSW, captain), Darcie Brown (SA), Ashleigh Gardner (NSW), Kim Garth (VIC), Grace Harris (QLD), Alana King (WA), Phoebe Litchfield (NSW), Tahlia McGrath (SA, vice-captain), Sophie Molineux (VIC), Beth Mooney (WA), Ellyse Perry (NSW), Megan Schutt (SA), Annabel Sutherland (VIC), Georgia Voll (QLD), Georgia Wareham (VIC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia has named a 15-strong squad for the upcoming ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in India and Sri…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[32613,64,63,740,43492,1209,60950,588,85,9677,1210,16494],"class_list":["post-119378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-announced","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-icc-womens-cricket-world-cup","tag-india","tag-odi","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-squad","tag-sri-lanka","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}