Australia v India: Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final – live

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WICKET! Mooney c Verma b Pandey 54 (Australia 88-2)

Just as she was starting to wreak havoc, Mooney cuts Pandey straight to Shafali Verma at point. An exuberant celebration follows from the fielder, who had dropped Mooney earlier in the piece.

12th over: Australia 89-2 (Gardner 1, Lanning 7)

Fifty for Beth Mooney!

And what a shot to bring it up: Mooney unleashes the ramp to send the fuller delivery from Pandey over the keeper’s head for four.

11th over: Australia 78-1 (Mooney 44, Lanning 7) Mooney, fresh from her reprieve, lofts Rana for four through the offside. Five singles accompany the boundary to make it another good over for Australia.

Kev McMahon messages in: “I confess to not having followed Australia’s progress until this game, but my recollection is that Alana King is an amazing spinner. Any thoughts on why she’s been dropped for this game?”

She’s gone wicketless so far in the tournament, and Australia’s strength in depth means they can afford to leave her out and bring in Jonassen, who’s got a pretty decent CV herself.

10th over: Australia 69-1 (Mooney 37, Lanning 5) Radha sends in a full toss and Mooney slaps the ball across the line to find the gap between long-on and midwicket for four. And then Mooney is dropped! This really should’ve been taken – it was hit down the ground, straight to Shafali Verma at long-on who put it down and watched it trickle away for another boundary. A massive let-off.

9th over: Australia 59-1 (Lanning 4, Mooney 28) Sneh Rana gets a go, and… Lanning is dropped! It’s a beautiful line from the off-spinner, giving Australia’s captain no space, and a backfoot punch results in a thick edge that Ghosh can’t hold on to behind the stumps. It was a very tough chance. A front-foot no ball follows, resulting in a free hit that Lanning hits straight into the hands of short midwicket.

WICKET! Healy st Ghosh b Yadav 25 (Australia 52-1)

Radha’s left-arm spin is called upon and she’s too short with her first delivery – Mooney rocks back and effortlessly cuts for four. That’s the fifty partnership up… but it’s all over now! Healy comes down the ground, misses the ball with a wild slash, and Richa Ghosh knocks over the stumps.

8th over: Australia 54-1 (Mooney 27, Lanning 1)

7th over: Australia 47-0 (Mooney 21, Healy 25) Mooney tries to pick up the rate, moving down the ground before unleashing a flashing cut off Pandey – but she can’t beat point. A single follows before Healy has to show Pandey some respect with a forward defence. Then comes a dance down the track from the right-hander, but she doesn’t get it off the middle, managing only a single. It’s been a solid if not explosive start from the openers.

6th over: Australia 43-0 (Healy 23, Mooney 19) India go upstairs after Healy doesn’t get the desired contact with a sweep. But she’s safe after replays show that there was a bit of glove on it. Healy then picks up three before Mooney hits the first six of the day, smashing Deepti over long-off: she saw a bit of air, got the feet moving and nailed the swing of the bat. Lovely stuff.

5th over: Australia 31-0 (Mooney 10, Healy 20) Pandey is into the attack and she serves one onto Mooney’s pads – the clip through the leg-side is timed beautifully but Jemimah Rodrigues does well with a diving stop at deep midwicket to stop the boundary.

4th over: Australia 26-0 (Healy 19, Mooney 7) Far too short from Deepti and Healy comes down the pitch to slap the ball through the off-side for four. Harmanpreet comes over to have a word with her off-spinner but Deepti is too wide again with her second delivery – Healy can only hit it straight to point, though. The batter fails to connect with a reverse-sweep before Deepti finally finds the right line, testing Healy with a straighter, skiddier delivery. Ian Bishop, on comms, approves. Healy gets off strike before another dot follows.

3rd over: Australia 21-0 (Healy 14, Mooney 7) Healy shows some Serious Intent for the first time today, advancing to Renuka’s first ball of the over and smashing it over mid-on for four.

2nd over: Australia 14-0 (Healy 8, Mooney 6) Deepti Sharma’s twirlers are on from the other end. After Healy and Mooney knock it about for four singles on the bounce, the left-hander manages to cut late behind square for four.

1st over: Australia 6-0 (Mooney 0, Healy 6) Renuka’s a bit too wide and full with her first delivery and Healy delightfully carves it through point for four. After three dots, she clips to the leg side for a couple more. A dot follows to make it a tidy recovery from the seamer after a loose opening ball.

Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney are out in the middle. Renuka has the new ball. Let’s go!

Getting closer, with the anthems about to get underway. Here’s some optimism for the India fans out there.

Australia’s XI:

India’s XI:

Australia win the toss and choose to bat first

Two changes for Australia: Jess Jonassen is in for Alana King, Alyssa Healy replaces Annabel Sutherland.

A blow for India, who have had Pooja Vastrakar ruled out due to an upper respiratory tract infection.

Preamble

You’ll have to go back to 2009 to find the last time Australia didn’t reach the final of the Women’s T20 World Cup. They’ve since won five of six finals, their last victory a historic one at the MCG where more than 86,000 took it all in. Then there’s the 50-over World Cup they won last year, and the gold they took at the Commonwealth Games last summer. They’ve won four out of four in this tournament, too. Basically, this is what I’m trying to say: India are up against it.

Here’s what they can cling on to. They’ve beaten the Australians at the last two T20 World Cups, and they ran them close in the final of the Commonwealth Games, losing by just nine runs. Smriti Mandhana’s in good nick, and Renuka Singh bagged five against England. They’ve got the tools for an upset, now they’ve just got to pull it off.

Whatever happens, it’s gonna be fun. Join me for the next few hours to take in this World Cup semi-final and feel free to send in an email/slide into my Twitter DMs.