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Uh, so South Africa and Manchester, Australia's first game, uh, Australia in group one, uh, which also includes Bangladesh, Netherlands, Pakistan, and their last game is against India at Lords.

So Australia's main rivals there in that group is South Africa and India.

Group two is England, West Indies, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, Sri Lanka, maybe slightly easier.

You would suggest, uh,

Australia played England in a warm-up game at Cardiff on Monday.

They won that game by five wickets with 10 balls remaining.

This is going to shock you.

Beth Mooney and Pez both scored 50s in the chase of 157, so that's good.

They've got another warm-up game against the West Indies in Cardiff on Thursday, which is obviously where they're already based before heading to Manchester, where I...

I mentioned earlier they're starting their campaign.

Nerves because this World Cup, this T20 World Cup feels about as open as it has been in, maybe not forever, but certainly in recent times because Australia have, they've, everyone else has caught up.

Everyone else has caught up.

So, yeah, what we're talking about is we're desperate for success in the absence of, well, six games in Bangladesh, which we're excited to see, you know, Marnus try and break a three-year duck in.

In the absence of that, we're looking at the women need to literally win the World Cup.

Yeah.

Which is the easiest thing in the world for anyone to do.

Just win the World Cup.

In England.

Uh, anyway, um, India, Afghanistan, uh, they played one test match, uh, and it was a humdinger.

Let me tell you, uh, India by the first made 564 for eight declared.