Defending champions Australia Women will begin their campaign at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 with their first game against Sri Lanka Women. Get our latest expert Australia vs Sri Lanka match betting tips, predictions and picks below.
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Australia vs Sri Lanka Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 Information
- Venue: Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
- Date: Saturday, October 5
- Time: 2 pm local (10 am GMT or 3.30 pm IST)
What Have The Two Teams Done Recently?
Australia Women
Overall, Australia Women have a 129-51 win-loss record in this format which gives them the second-best win-loss ratio among Full Member nations in women’s cricket. They also enter this competition on the back of seven successive wins in T20I cricket.
They have won 10 of their last 11 games, giving them a bit of an invincible cloak with their only loss in 2024 having come at the hands of South Africa in Canberra in January.
Sri Lanka Women
They started off as favourites against Pakistan Women in their T20 World Cup opener but a startling collapse saw them fall short of their opponent’s 117 by 31 runs.
Sri Lanka Women might not have the greatest overall win-loss record in their T20I history – they are 58-95 giving them a ratio of 0.60 – but before that opening defeat, they were a team on the rise.
In 2024 itself, Sri Lanka had won 15 of the 19 matches they had played including the Women’s Asia Cup triumph in which they defeated the much-fancied India Women side in the final.
They were on a six-match winning streak before Ireland surprised them in game in Dublin in August in the lead-up to this tournament. A loss to Pakistan here leaves them with a lot to do in their remaining three matches.
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Quick Australia vs Sri Lanka Women’s T20 World Cup Preview
The Australian women’s team is so far ahead of the rest of the pack that even the odd loss in a format like T20I becomes breaking news. They have won the most number of titles by some distance – six of them to the next best of one to England and West Indies – and are a juggernaut that’s usually unstoppable.
The Alyssa Healy-led team would be raring to go with the kind of aura that was only matched by their men’s counterparts back in the early 2000s.
While expectations bring a lot of pressure and the inevitable target on their backs, they have been on top for so long that it never seems to affect them.
Up against a side who had come into the tournament, in their captain Chamari Athapaththu’s words, without any pressure of expectations, the Aussie team would be aware of this being a potential banana peel.
However, Sri Lanka themselves have a few things to sort out after their shock loss to Pakistan in their opener.
After winning the Women’s Asia Cup in stunning fashion earlier this year, Sri Lanka would have thought they had an outside chance here of qualifying for the semifinals, but they are now left with a lot to do.
Not only do they need to defeat Australia here, they would have to get past India and New Zealand next and that would be expecting too.
Their over-dependence on Athapaththu looked to have reduced a tad but come a big tournament like this, they would need her to fire. The problem for Sri Lanka is that even with that happening, their opponents have a few more players who could fire even more.
All Eyes On
Sugandika Kumari grabbed a three-fer in the previous game and with this match also to be played during the day, her slow left-arm bowling could play a crucial role in stifling the opposition batters.
For Australia Women, Alyssa Healy took over their captaincy late last year and this is their first big tournament they are playing under her. It would be interesting to see how she juggles her keeping, batting and captaincy duties here.
Australia vs Sri Lanka Head-to-Head Stats
- Overall Australia vs Sri Lanka T20I Head-to-head: There have been seven previous meetings between these two players and Australia Women have won it every single time.
- Their most recent outing came in the previous edition of the Women’s T20 World Cup last year and Australia Women had won that by 10 wickets.
- Such has been Australia’s dominance against Sri Lanka that their closest win over Sri Lanka was by five wickets and three balls to spare but other than that their wins have been by nine wickets (twice), 10 wickets (twice), 41 runs and 132 runs.
Australia vs Sri Lanka Squads
Australia
Alyssa Healy (c), Darcie Brown, Ash Gardner, Kim Garth, Grace Harris, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Tahlia McGrath (vc), Sophie Molineux, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Tayla Vlaeminck, Georgia Wareham
Sri Lanka
Chamari Athapaththu (c), Anushka Sanjeewani, Harshitha Madhavi, Nilakshika de Silva, Inoka Ranaweera, Hasini Perera, Kavisha Dilhari, Sachini Nisansala, Vishmi Gunaratne, Udeshika Prabodhani, Achini Kulasuriya, Sugandika Kumari, Inoshi Priyadharshani, Shashini Gimhani, Ama Kanchana. Travelling reserve: Kaushini Nuthyangana
Australia vs Sri Lanka Women’s T20 World Cup Predictions with Latest Odds*
Australia vs Sri Lanka Match Winner
Australia vs Sri Lanka Top Batter
- Top Australia Batter – Beth Mooney: 13/5 (1xbet & Dafabet in India & bet365 in the UK & Australia)
- Top Sri Lanka Batter – Harshitha Madavi: 3/1 (1xbet & Dafabet in India & bet365 in the UK & Australia)
Australia vs Sri Lanka Top Bowler
- Top Australia Bowler – Ash Gardner: 4/1 (1xbet & Dafabet in India & bet365 in the UK & Australia)
- Top Sri Lanka Bowler – Sugandika Kumari: 5/1 (1xbet & Dafabet in India & bet365 in the UK & Australia)
Australia vs Sri Lanka Toss Prediction
Australia to win the toss: 10/11
Australia vs Sri Lanka Other Predictions
- Team to Score More 4s – Australia: 4/11
How to Watch Australia v Sri Lanka Live Streaming?
The live streaming of the all the matches in the Women’s T20 World Cup can be watched in 116 territories across the world. This is how that can be done:
- India: Star Sports Network and Disney+ Hotstar
- UAE & MENA countries: STARZON & CricLife Women
- UK & Ireland: Sky Sports Cricket, Sky Sports Main Event, SkyGO, NOW and Sky Sports App
- Australia: Amazon Prime Video
- New Zealand: Sky Sport NZ
- Pakistan: PTV & Ten Sports (through A-Sports) & digitally through the Myco, Tamasha and Shoq apps
- Bangladesh: Nagorik TV & Toffee
- South Africa & 52 Sub-Saharan Africa territories: SuperSport Cricket & SuperSport Cricket Africa
- Sri Lanka: Maharaja TV
- USA & Canada: WillowTV & Willow by Cricbuzz
- West Indies: ESPN Caribbean & ESPN Play Caribbean app. Disney+
- Other Regions: ICC.tv
- Radio Commentary: ABC in Australia, BBC in the UK, the FunAsia Network in the Middle East and All India Radio in India (for the India matches, semi finals and the final).
Fans can also listen to the live commentary of all the matches through the ‘Match Centre’ on the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup website and mobile app.
*odds correct at the time of writing.
