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Australia (31/0 in 5 overs) after opting to bat first
Healy (20*), Mooney (10*); Pandey 0/5 in 1 overs

India have made their first change in the bowling line-up. Shikha Pandey has replaced Renuka Singh after her first two overs. 

India have fielded better in this over, with Jemimah stopping a certain boundary. India have given away 5 runs in this over.

Australia (26/0 in 4 overs) after opting to bat first
Healy (19*), Mooney (7*); Deepti 0/13 in 2 overs

India have to field better, stop the half chances if they wish to remain in the game. Deepti has conceded 2 boundaries in 2 overs, with anything tossed up seeming to be going like a tracer bullet to the boundary.

Australia (21/0 in 3 overs) after opting to bat first
Healy (14*), Mooney (7*); Thakur 0/13 in 2 overs

It looks like a great batting pitch at Cape Town. With no movement off the seam and, Renuka Thakur has been forced to go to her cutters early in the game.

Australia (14/0 in 2 overs) after opting to bat first
Healy (8*), Mooney (6*); Deepti 0/8 in 1 overs

India introduced spin straightaway with Deepti Sharma coming into bowl. Not a lot of help for the spinners at the moment and Australia take 8 from the over with a boundary on the final ball.

Australia (6/0 in 1 over) after opting to bat first
Healy (6*), Mooney (0*); Thakur 0/6 in 1 overs

Australia opened their innings with a boundary, with Healy punching the ball through point. Renuka bowled stump to stump since and put a check on things.

No Alana King for Australia as they go for experience in Jess Jonassen. 

Australia Women XIAJ Healy, BL Mooney, MM Lanning, A Gardner, EA Perry, TM McGrath, GM Harris, GL Wareham, JL Jonassen, M Schutt, D Brown

India have made two changes to the XI. Sneh Rana, as expected replaces Pooja Vastrakar while India have brought back Radha Yadav in place of Rajeshwar Gayakwad.

India Women XIS Mandhana, Shafali Verma, JI Rodrigues, H Kaur, RM Ghosh, DB Sharma, YH Bhatia, S Rana, S Pandey, RP Yadav, RS Thakur

Australia have won the toss and elected to bat first against India.

Australia have walked into the ground right after India ahead of their semi-final clash. Here’s a look.

The Indian team has arrived at the Newlands Cricket Ground. They will be on field in little less than an hour playing their semi-final match vs Australia.

Here are the full details about the game. 

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ICC confirmed on Thursday, 23 February that India pacer Pooja Vastrakar had been ruled out of the semi-finals, and Sneh Rana had been added in her place. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur is also facing some discomfort and it is not known if she will be fully fit or not.

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Without a shadow of a doubt India will be up against steep competition against one of the most dominant teams in world cricket. 

What to expect from the game?

Here’s the preview of the game from Priya Nagi. 

India are set to take on Australia in the high profile semi-finals clash of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2023. Australia have ran through the field to reach the stage, while India have also shown their dominance in their group.

Australia are the favourites to lift the trophy, but many, including Ravi Shastri believe that India are due a World Cup.