{"id":261441,"date":"2025-11-04T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261441\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:06:01","slug":"womens-world-cup-news-india-defeats-australia-alyssa-healy-press-conference-video-scorecard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261441\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s World Cup news, India defeats Australia, Alyssa Healy press conference, video, scorecard"},"content":{"rendered":"

A \u201cdisappointed\u201d Alyssa Healy has confessed Australia \u201clet themselves down\u201d in all three facets of the game during Thursday\u2019s World Cup semi-final against India, branding the team\u2019s performance as \u201cun-Australian\u201d.<\/p>\n

India ended Australia\u2019s 15-match World Cup winning streak after chasing a record 339-run target with nine balls to spare<\/a> at DY Patil Stadium, with Jemimah Rodrigues hitting a career-best 127 not out.<\/p>\n

It marks the first time Australia\u2019s women\u2019s team has not been in possession of either World Cup trophy since 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, we just weren\u2019t sharp enough today in all three facets to give ourselves the opportunity to win that semi-final,\u201d a dejected Healy confessed during the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot taking anything away from the Indian performance, (but) there\u2019s an element of we let ourselves down a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Australia put down multiple chances during the chase, most notably Healy\u2019s horror dropped catch when Rodrigues was on 82.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think we dished up a little bit too much junk to hit that times, and also just didn\u2019t capitalise on the opportunities that we did create,\u201d Healy continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels a little bit un-Australian to not be as clinical as we normally are, and knowing how well we\u2019ve played this World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alyssa Healy of Australia. Photo by Alex Davidson-ICC\/ICC via Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Australia, unbeaten during the group stage, dug themselves out of tricky situations on multiple occasions throughout the tournament \u2014 after collapsing to 7-76 against Pakistan in Colombo, the defending champions chased a 331-run target against India in Visakhapatnam, at the times record in women\u2019s ODIs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re playing some unbelievable cricket, and that\u2019s why it doesn\u2019t quite feel right sitting here at the losing end, not getting to Sunday\u2019s fixture,\u201d Healy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we played really well throughout this World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Healy acknowledged how impactful the result will be for women\u2019s cricket in India, with the Asian powerhouse set to face South Africa in Sunday\u2019s final. Neither nation has won a Women\u2019s World Cup title before.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see a new winner is going to do wonders for the game,\u201d Healy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see how well it\u2019s been supported here in India is great, for them to have an opportunity to play in front of home fans for an ODI World Cup final is going to be really special<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope it does great thing for Indian cricket.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to a hurt a little bit, but it\u2019s going to be really great to watch. <\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully we see it do great things for the global game, and more investment in these great nations moving forwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Australian coach Shelley Nitschke admitted the result was \u201cdisappointing\u201d but clarified there was no need for \u201cpanic stations\u201d in the national set-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been playing some really good cricket, not just this tournament, in the last 12 months,\u201d Nitschke said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re always going to review and look to get better, and we need to be better in the big moments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still think we\u2019ve got some growth to go, and I\u2019m actually looking forward to where we can go.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just weren\u2019t good enough when it counted tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201cdisappointed\u201d Alyssa Healy has confessed Australia \u201clet themselves down\u201d in all three facets of the game during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-261441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261441","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=261441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}