Former captain\u2019s cheeky taunt for ex-teammate<\/a><\/p>\nLinsey Smith of England celebrates. Photo by Dan Istitene\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Closing ceremonies on the outfield are becoming increasingly common at the end of major tournaments, and while it is believed England are not treating this as a major issue, captain Nat Sciver-Brunt made it clear some of her teammates are far from impressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously there\u2019s a few moving parts with the pre-game stuff,\u201d Sciver-Brunt told reporters on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople like to bowl before the game on one of the bowl-through wickets. We had a few chins down (when the England players found out).<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess that\u2019s what you get when you\u2019re playing in a final and there\u2019s a lot of other moving parts that aren\u2019t to do with the two teams playing. Hopefully we can go about our business as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia captain Sophie Molineux, however, was less concerned by the situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m assuming if Rita Ora is here, we can evacuate the dance floor, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d she said with a smile.<\/p>\n
Ritz Ora with her husband, director and actor Taika Waititi.Source: AFP<\/p>\n
Australia have surrendered both white-ball World Cups in the past couple of years, but are now one win away from a record-extending seventh T20 crown.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know it\u2019s going to be an incredible challenge, but it\u2019s also going to be a really special day just to be involved in,\u201d Molineux said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe match up well against them. We don\u2019t look too far into the past, but we should be very confident heading into this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Veteran all-rounder Ellyse Perry is set to retain her spot, despite retiring during Australia\u2019s semi-final win over the West Indies with \u201cquad awareness\u201d on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s trained really well,\u201d added Molineux.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s had a good bat and a good bowl. We\u2019ll assess tomorrow and see how she pulls up before we make any decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England are annoyed their bowlers\u2019 usual pre-game routines will be changed by the appearance of Rita Ora ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-779916","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\/779916","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=779916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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