The two teams will meet for the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 final in Navi Mumbai on Sunday

“We’re trying not to think too much about the past at all, I think. Like I said before, every cricket game starts at zero. We can’t sort of bring any of our history into this game, whether it would be finals that we’ve lost or games that we’ve won against India, we’re just really trying to erase all of that stuff and start completely afresh in this game. I think there’s big pressure on both teams to perform and I think whoever stays the calmest under that pressure is going to most likely come out on top tomorrow,” Wolvaardt said.

Wolvaardt added that she believes that knockout cricket is completely different to league cricket.

“I think like we’ve seen, I think people are able to do some very special things in knockout games like we saw from Jemimah Rodrigues, the other night. So I think, starts totally afresh, I don’t think we’re going to be looking into our group game against them. We know we have to play some really good cricket, they’re a really strong side and have just come off of a really good game as well, so they’ll be high on confidence. So, we’ll just have to play some good cricket, stick to our basics, stick to what we’ve been doing well throughout the tournament,” Wolvaardt said.

–Reuters–