Opener Phoebe Litchfield’s 40 from 39 balls assisted Healy in getting Australia’s batting innings off to a belief-building start, before Ellyse Perry (47* off 52) and Ashleigh Gardner (45 off 46) also made valuable contributions.
“Probably something we haven’t quite done thus far in this World Cup is to set a platform in the first 10,” Healy continued.
“Phoebe and I were able to do that, which was cool. I think it needed somebody to make 100 to chase down that total. Obviously you’d probably like two to make 100 just to make it easy, but somebody needed to, if they got set to cash in and have a good day. It hasn’t been my day of late, but it was my day today, which was really cool.
“But I thought the wicket played beautifully. We played it to our strengths, I think early, which is straight back down the ground. They bowled quite straight. We played straight, trying to limit our dismissals in that regard and we’re able to pull off something pretty special. So overall, great day. I thought it was an amazing game of cricket and hopefully everyone really enjoyed it.”
Australia have all-but secured progression to the semi-finals stage, unbeaten through four of their group stage fixtures. They are next in action on Thursday against Bangladesh.
