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Exclusive | Women’s T20 World Cup: ‘I see India going out in the semi-final’ | Cricket News

NEW DELHI: The Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 is just around the corner, and excitement is building up worldwide for this much-anticipated cricketing spectacle. Six-time champions Australia enter the tournament brimming with confidence and are considered firm favourites to defend their title.India, meanwhile, would like to build up on the fiery start to their World Cup campaign as they beat West Indies and South Africa in convincing fashion in the warm-up fixtures.The Harmanpreet Kaur-led unit is placed in a stiff group which also features Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand and Sri Lanka, and there are countless possibilities of upsets during the multi-nation event.An avid women’s cricket enthusiast Georgie Heath, a Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC, owners of Lord’s Cricket Ground) Foundation ambassador who has been all over the world covering women’s cricket from the best seat in the commentary boxes, had a candid chat with TimesofIndia.com on sidelines of Legends of Cricket. Edited excerpts:Q) Initially, the venue for the T20 World Cup was Bangladesh. Then, it was shifted to the UAE. Do you think that it would make any change to the strategies that teams were making before?I think it’s an interesting one because they changed it (the host) before the teams were announced, so that was a good step in the first place. The team that I know very well, the England side, wanted to wait until there was confirmation over where it would be.But I think on the selection side, it has had a little bit of an impact, because if you look at a team like England, they’ve obviously gone pretty all out and out with a pretty spin-heavy attack, and they only got one out-and-out pacer in Lauren Bell, whereas you look at the Australians, and they have gone a little bit more seam-heavy than England.So I think teams are sort of eyeing it up differently. But I do think it will make a difference because it’s not…