Former great and Cricket Australia board member Mel Jones believes Meg Lanning's side is still being weighed down by the pressure of being favourites at a home World Cup | wutube
, Jones described the host nation's continued involvement as "pivotal".
It has been far from the ideal start for Australia, whose title defence has been beset by numerous issues. Much of the marketing of the event is centred on breaking the world record attendance for a women's sporting event at the final on International Women's Day, which is heavily reliant on Australia qualifying for the March 8 decider."There's so many other levels in and around this World Cup. The final on International Women's Day, the sense cricket is making a massive stride forward.
"When you boil down to it, Meg Lanning has never been in that situation before as Australian captain. There's a couple of players who have come into this tournament without the form they would have liked either."So that's another overlay on top of it again. We need a bit of a magic wand to try and alleviate all the stresses as quickly as possible."
"The overseas broadcasters having the home team and such a dominant side as well - and remember a lot of the commentators are former players who have played against Australia, they got quite excited - there's looks across the room as if to say you're going to go down, then you can see them thinking about it and we actually don't want it to happen."
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