Women’s Cricket World Cup: Australian players staying focused amid pay chaos
AUSTRALIA’S female cricketers aren’t letting what is happening off the field distract them from the task of winning their seventh World Cup.
With the memorandum of understanding now lapsed the women’s team could find themselves in the same limbo as their male counterparts if a resolution is found by the end of the month.
Players in the women’s team are on extended contracts until the end of the World Cup, but if no agreement is made, they could end up as unemployed World Champions, should they win the title.
Australian allrounder Elyse Villani said she wasn’t surprised that the MOU lapsed and that the team wasn’t concerned about the most recent turn of events.
“To be honest, I did think it was going to lapse, so it’s not a great surprise to us. We were ready for that and we’ll just see what happens,” Villani said.
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“We sort of had a plan coming over here that we weren’t really going to think too much about the MOU as a team and we weren’t really going to get into that space.
“None of us are particularly trained in that area. We’re letting the experts do the talking there and leave it to the ACA and CA; we’re confident they can come to an agreement.
“We’re just letting them do their thing and hopefully we can put some fine performances out on the field.”
Australia take on New Zealand in their third World Cup match on Sunday.
The two nations met in the Rose Bowl ODI series March, which the Aussies won 2-1, but the Kiwis got the better of them in a T20 series preceeding that.
Villani said recent victories certainly doesn’t guarantee the same result this week and they’ll can’t let their guard down against the Kiwis.
“Every time we play them it’s a fresh game,” she said.
“We’ve always had really close competition against them. There’s a few games that could have gone the other way.
“We’re confident in ourselves as a team, but we’re definitely not overly confident.
“We try to take each game as it comes and make sure we do what need to do well.”
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