Australia's women want to be pushing 180 regularly as their new par score in Twenty20 cricket as they go about reclaiming their world title in the Caribbean.
The Aussies will face Ireland on Monday morning (AEDT) in their second match of the World T20 tournament, fresh off a comfortable 52-run win over Pakistan.
Australian batter and keeper Alyssa Healy is looking to pile more pressure on oppositions in the Caribbean. Credit:AAP
While they cruised to 5-165 with the bat in their first-up win, the Australians were convinced that was short of what they could have scored after they were 0-58 after the opening six-over powerplay.
Alyssa Healy scored her 49 off 28 balls but Australia went through a period where they scored just 11 runs off three overs in the middle of the innings after she was dismissed.
It comes after chief rivals in their group India whacked 5-194 against an the highly regarded New Zealand attack, albeit on a slightly newer pitch.
"I think if we're honest, we probably left a few out there (against Pakistan)," Healy sad.
"They bowled really well in the middle period and sort of shut us down a little bit.
"In saying that, chasing 160, 170 on that wicket was never going to be easy. So I think the batting line-up did a really good job in the end.
"But I think moving forward we'll look to push 180."
Healy's assertion falls in line with a new aggressive approach taken by the Australian women, after India put 4-281 on against them inside 41 overs last year's rain-affected one-day World Cup semi-final loss.
That's since been considered a turning point for the team in both formats, with three of their six 180-plus T20 scores having been put on since then.
"We found that we went back into our shell in periods we shouldn't have when we should've been moving the game forward," Healy said.
"We learnt that the hard way and spoke about that post that World Cup and decided that our cricket moving forward we were going to take the positive approach.
"If we had our back against the wall we were going to come out swinging and put ourselves back into a position where we can win the game."
AAP
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